EFMI

European Federation of Medical Informatics er den Europeiske helseinformatikk-organisasjonen der NorHIT deltar som norsk medlem. EFMI ble stiftet i 1976, og  har i dag 32 medlemsland. Norge var en av de landene som var med å ta initiativ til å starte federasjonen. Formålet med orgnanisasjonen er: «The Federation shall be constituted as a nonprofit organisation concerned with the theory and practice of Information Science and Technology within Health and Health Science in a European context. We declare that the ten delegates here today from the ten national societies shall constitute the preliminary Council of the Federation which thus hereby exists.»  Copenhagen, 11 September 1976.  Målene inkludere

• To advance international co-operation and dissemination of information in Medical Informatics on a European basis;
• To promote high standards in the application of medical informatics;
• To promote research and development in medical informatics;
• To encourage high standards in education in medical informatics;
• To function as the autonomous European Regional Council of IMIA

EFMI har etablert flere arbeids- og interessegrupper, inkludert EDU Education, EHR Electronic Health Record, EVAL Evaluation Assessment, HIIC Health Informatics for Interregional Cooperation, PG HIME Heallth Information Management, HOFMI Human Factors, IDR Disabled and Rehabilitation, LIFOSS Open Source,MCRO former MDBSM, IP Image Processing, NLU Natural language, NURSIE Nursing Informatics, PCI Primary Care, PPD Personal Portable Devices, SSE Security Ethics, TRACE Trace ability

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EFMI avholder ulike møter, symposier og konferasner. Alle medlemmer av DND NorHIT kan delta på EFMI arrangement til rabattert pris – registerer som «EFMI member».