History
IAMI was registered in September 1993 with its Registered Office being the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, in Hyderabad, India.
It has been organising a conference every two years on roles and applications of informatics in medicine, health and allied fields in various states of India.
The first biennial conference was held in 1995 at Hyderabad.
Second conference was held in 1997 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
A major workshop was held in 2001 at NIMS, Hyderabad in lieu of third conference. Third conference of 1999 was postponed due to natural calamities.
The fourth conference was held in 2003 at PGIMER, Chandigarh.
A mid-conference was held in 2004 at the South-Eastern Railways Hospital, Kolkata.
Fifth conference was held in 2005 at Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences in Amritsar.
IAMI has conducted many beginners’ courses for doctors, nurses, paramedical personnel and computer professional class. This enabled the association in enrolling many hospitals, institutes and organizations as Institutional Life Members. It is aiming at making Medical Informatics as one of the elective subjects in the UG curriculum for all medical colleges in India and to get academic credits from the Medical Council of India and other autonomous bodies under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India), Government of India for all the delegates participating in the conferences, seminars and workshops organized by the association.
In 2001, it started a discussion group for Medical Informatics. Which has now grown as the de facto information source for medical informatics related activities in India both for its members as well as non-members. Its active members include almost the entire Who’s Who of medical informatics scene of India. IAMI got its own web site in 2002. Its Journal "Indian Journal of Medical Informatics" (IJMI, ISSN 0973-0397) was started in May 2004 .
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