Working and Special Interest Groups
The IMIA family includes a growing number of Working and Special Interest Groups, which consist of individuals who share common interests in a particular focal field. The groups hold Working Conferences on leading edge and timely health and medical informatics issues.
IMIA Working Groups and Special Interest Groups include:
- Biomedical Pattern Recognition (WG 07)
- Biomedical Statistics and Information Processing (WG 12)
- Consumer Health Informatics (WG2)
- Dental Informatics (WG 11)
- Health and Medical Informatics Education (WG1)
- Health Informatics for Development (WG 09)
- Health Information Systems (WG 10)
- Informatics in Genomic Medicine (IGM)
- Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining (WG 03)
- Medical Concept Representation (WG 06)
- Mental Health Informatics (WG 08)
- Open Source Health Informatics
- Organizational and Social Issues (WG 13)
- Primary Health Care Informatics (WG 05)
- Security in Health Information Systems (WG 04)
- SIG NI Nursing Informatics
- Social Media Working Group
- Standards in Health Care Informatics (WG 16)
- Technology Assessment & Quality Development in Health Informatics (WG 15)
- Telematics in Health Care (WG 18)
- Wearable Sensors in Healthcare
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