medinfo medinfo medinfo is the name of the international medical informatics conference organized initially every 3 years and now every other year by the international medical informatics association. it is the most important international conference in the field with health and medical informatics professions attending from all over the world. medinfo also serves to bring together all officers of the international medical informatics association (imia) board together with national representatives in the general assembly of imia. the general assembly elects the officers of imia. the imia board consists of the president (the past or the elect president), treasurer and secretary as its officers. in addition it has other vice presidents for targeted areas: membership, medinfo, services, special affairs, strategic plan implementation, and working groups. with the exception of the president and the vice president of medinfo all officers serve a three-year term that can be extended for a second three-year term. the president and vice president are on a two - year term and the vice president of medinfo has one 2-year term and is elected the year before the next medinfo meeting so that he/she can be mentored through one medinfo cycle. medinfo conferences medinfo was held every 3 years since its inception in 1974, after 2013 it is now held every two years. the table below gives an overview of these conferences. number year date location organizing partner organizing committee chair(s) scientific program committee chair(s) editorial committee 1 1974 aug 5-10 stockholm, sweden ifip world congress francois grémy john anderson, j. malcolm forsythe 2 1977 aug 8-12 toronto, canada ifip tc-4 meeting werner schneider david b. shires, hermann k. wolf 3 1980 sep 29-oct 4 tokyo, japan masamitsu oshima morris f. collen donald a. b. lindberg, shigekoto kaihara 4 1983 aug 22-27 amsterdam, the netherlands jan roukens gwilym s. lodwick jan hendrik van bemmel, marion j. ball, ove wigertz 5 1986 oct 26-30 washington dc, usa american medical informatics association (amia) donald a. b. lindberg jan van bemmel, edward h. shortliffe roger salamon, bruce i. blum, mogens jørgensen 6 1989 oct 17-20, dec 11-15 beijing, china and singapore k. c. lun barry barber, dexian cao, dulie qin, gustav wagner 7 1992 sep 6-10 geneva, switzerland swiss society for medical informatics jean-raoul scherrer salah mandil k. c. lun, patrice degoulet, thomas e. piemme, otto rienhoff 8 1995 july 23–27 vancouver, canada canada's health informatics association kathryn hannah shigekoto kaihara robert a. greenes, hans e. petersen, denis j. protti 9 1998 aug 14-21 seoul, south korea korean society of medical informatics chang soon koh charles safran, patrice degoulet branko cesnik, alexa thorlichen mccray, jean-raoul scherrer 10 2001 sep 2-5 london, uk british computer society health informatics forum jean roberts arie hasman, hiroshi takeda vimla l. patel, ray rogers, reinhold haux, beatriz de faria leão 11 2004 sep 7-11 san francisco, usa american medical informatics association (amia) edward h. shortliffe mario stefanelli, casimir kulikowski marius fieschi, enrico coiera, yu-chan jack li 12 2007 aug 20–24 brisbane, australia health informatics society of australia evelyn j.s. hovenga alexa t. mccray, heimar de fátima marin klaus. a. kuhn, james r. warren, tze-yun leong 13 2010 sep 13-16 cape town, south africa south african health informatics association lyn hanmer riccardo bellazzi, johanna westbrook charles safran, heimar de fátima marin, shane reti 14 2013 aug 20–23 copenhagen, denmark danish society of medical informatics (dsmi) lene vistisen (denmark) dominik aronsky (switzerland), tze‐yun leong (singapore) christoph u. lehmann (us, chair), christian nøhr (denmark), elske ammenwerth (austria) 15 2015 aug 19-23 são paulo, brasil brazilian society of health informatics (sbis) beatriz de faria leão (brazil), claudio giulliano alves da costa (brazil) fernando martin sanchez (australia), kaija saranto (finland) indra neil sarkar (us, chair), paulo mazzoncini de azevedo marques (brazil), andrew georgiou (australia) 16 2017 aug 21-25 hangzhou, china china medical informatics association (cmia) yongqin huang, chair (china), yining meng, executive vice chair (china) elizabeth borycki (canada), niels peek (united kingdom) adi gunlapalli (us, chair), dongsheng zhao (china) and marie-christine jaulent (france) 17 2019 aug 26-30 lyon, france french association for medical informatics (aim) jean-marie rodrigues, president (france), phillipe cinquin, deputy executive president, lemlih ouchchane, general secretary, daniel pagonis, treasurer patrick weber, vp medinfo (switzerland, imia board) olivier bodenreider (u.s.a., co-chair), michael marscholleck (germany, co-chair) lucila ohno-macado (u.s.a., chair), brigitte séroussi (france, vice chair) 18 2021 august sydney, australia health informatics society of australia (hisa) najeeb al-shorbaji, vp medinfo (jordon, imia board) paul otero (co-chair, argentina), philip scott (co-chair, united kingdom) jessica ancker (u.s.a., co-chair) mark merolli (australia, co-chair) 19 2023 august taipei, taiwan taiwan association for medical informatics (tami) other definitions medinfo is also an acronym for medical informatics