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(Updated on 20 Dec 2012). Please help to maintain this page, the Webmaster.

Involvements of the MIM

• EFMI, European Federation for Medical Informatics. The MIM is the Belgian member of the EFMI and the EFMI is the European branch of the IMIA.
• IMIA, International Medical Informatics Association. The MIM is the Belgian member of the IMIA.      National members societies,
• The MIM is a member of the FAIB-FBVI, Belgian Federation of Informatics Associations, representing the IFIP and the CEPIS in Belgium,
• IFIP, International Federation for Information Processing
• CEPIS, Council of European Professional Informatics Societies,
• HITM, European Association of Healthcare IT Managers,

Other Medical Informatics Associations

• ACIENDO, Association for Common European Nursing Diagnoses, Interventions and Outcomes,
• ADELF, Association des Epidemiologistes de Langue Française,
• AIIM, Associazione Italiana di Informatica Medica,
• AIM, Association Française d'Informatique Médicale
• @ITIM, Associazione Italiana di Telemedicina ed Informatica Medica,
• AMIA, American Medical Informatics Association / USA AMIA 10*10, Training Health Care Professionals to serve as local Informatics Leaders,
• ANIA, American Nursing Informatics Association,
• APAMI, Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics,
• ATA, American Telemedicine Association / USA
• ATHS, Australian TeleHealth Society,
• ATSP, Association of Telehealth Service Providers
• BCS-Healthcare : British Computer Society - Healthcare
• BCS-Nursing : British Computer Society - Nursing Specialist Group
• BJHC, British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management
• BMIS, British Medical Informatics Society
• BVMI, Berufsverband Medizinischer Informatiker e.V. / Heidelberg
• CARE2X, Open & Free Hospital and Healthcare Integrated Information System
• Canada's Health Informatics Association
• CALLIOPE, European Network for eHealth Interoperability
• CEDIMHO, Centre d'Etude et de Développement de l'Informatique Médicale du Hainaut Occidental
• CENIM, Cercle Namurois d'Informatique Médicale
• CIHI, Canadian Institute for Health Information
• CISP-CLUB, affiliated to the WONCA, the World Organisation of Family Doctors
• COACH, Association Canadienne d'Informatique de la Santé - Canada"s Health Informatics Association,
• COCIT, Concil on Clinical Information Technology of the AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics,
• Computers in Cardiology
• CPRI, Computer-Based Patient Record Institute
• CRID, centre de Recherche Informatique et Droit des Facultés Universitaires de Namur et publications au point de vue commerce electronique
• CRISNET, Coordination, Recherche et Traitement de l'Information en Soins de Santé Primaire - Network,communication plateform in Open Source
• CST-SCT, Canadian Society of Telehealth - Société Canadienne de Télésanté,
• DGG, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitstelematik
• DOMUS MEDICA, IT Commissie DOMEDIT,
• EGPRN, European general Practice Research Network
• EHTEL, European Health Telematics Association.
• HELINA, IMIA member in Africa,
• EPSOS, European Patients Smart Open Services,
• ESCTAIC, European Society for Computing and Technology in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
• ETHO, European Telematics Health Observatory
• Formatic Santé, Réseau d'échanges et formations en ligne pour les professionels de la santé,
• GDD, Gesellschaft für Datenschutz und Datensicherung e.V. / Bonn
• GMDS, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie
• GPCG, General Practice Computer Group, Australia
• GRAS, Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour la Santé pour la promotion du bon usage des médicaments.
• GSF - Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit / Munich
• HCLS, Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group of the W3C,
• Health Informatics Europe
• HERMES, Mutualisation des Plate-formes en Santé, Nancy
• HITM, European Association of Healthcare IT Managers,
• HISA, Health informatics of Australia,
• HoIP, Healthcare over Internet, Community-Generated Healthcare Solutions,
• HON, Health on the Net Foundation,
• ICMCC, International Concil on Medical é care Compunetics,
• IEEE EMBS, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
• IFMBE, International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering
• IFHRO, International Federation of Health Record Organizations,
• IHC, Internet Healthcare Coalition
• IHE, Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise, changing the way healthcare connect,
• IMIA, International Medical Informatics Association
• IMIA-LAC, Ferderacion Regional de Informatica de la Salud para America Latina y el Caribe,
• IPEM, Institute of Physic and Engineering in Medicine, London,
• ISfTeH, International Society for Telemedicine
• JMIR, Journal of Medical Internet Reasearch, published in " Open Access " only on the web.
• MGC, Medidoc Gebruikers Club, vzw
• MRI, Medical Record Institute / Boston
• Medisch Discussie Forum op Internet
• MF & SP, groupe recherche Médecine de Famille & Soins Primaires
• NICTIZ, Nationaal ICT Instituut in de Zorg, /Nederland,
• NiHi, National Institute of Health Informatics, Canada,
• NVKVV Nationale Verbond van Katolieke Vlaamse Verpleegkundigen, Informatiesystemen verpleekundigen werkgroep,
• NVMA, Vereniging voor Zorgadministratie en en Informatie, in Nederland
• OHF, Open Healthcare Framework,
• OHIO, Occupational Healt Information Working Group,
• OIZ, Vereniging van Organisaties voor ICT in de Zorg in Nederland,
• ONRS, Observatoire National des Réseaux de Santé en France,
• Open Clinical, Knowledge Management for Clinical Care
• OSHCA, Open Source Health Care Alliance
• PHCSG, Primary Health Care Specialist Group / UK of the BCS, British Computer Society,
• PROREC
• PROREC-FRANCE
• RAFT, Réseau de télé-enseignement et de télé-médecine en Afrique francophone,
  
• RSW, Réseau Santé Wallon,
• SBIS, Sociedade Brasileira de Informatica em Saude,
• SCFBM, Source Code for Biology and Medicine, an open access, peer reviewed, online journal,
• SEIS, Sociedad Española de Informatica de la Salud,
• SFIMAR, Société Francophone d’Informatique et de Monitorage en Anesthésie – Réanimation / France
• SIM, Society for Internet in Medicine
• SIXI, Soins Infirmiers et Informatique,
• SMDM, Society for Medical Decision Making
• SMPE/e, School of Medical Physics and engineering Eindhove,
• SOQIBS, Société Québecquoise d'Informatique Biomédical et de la Santé
• SSMG, Société Scientifique de Médecine Générale
• STC, Advancing Public Health Oucomes Through Information Technology,
• Swiss Society for Medical Informatics
• TELEDermatology
• TNO, Preventie en Gezondheid, /Nederland
• TRC, Telemedicine Research Center
• UACM, Ukrainian Association for Computer Medicine,
• UKCHIP, UK Concil for Health Informatics Professions,
• UMVF, Université Médicale Virtuelle Francophone,
• UOAD, Union des Omnipraticien de l'Arondissement de Dinant
• VMBI : Vereniging voor Medische Biologisch Informatieverwerking, The Dutch Medical Informatics association,
• WABT, World Academy of Biomedical Tecghnologies,
• WIHIR, Waterloo (Canada) Institute for Health Informatics Research,
• WONCA, Global Family Doctor, the World Organization of Family Doctors. and WONCA-EUROPE.
• WVVH, Wetenschappelijke Vereniging van Vlaamse Huisartsen,
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• Links to other overviews:
  • Health Informatics World Wide
  • Health Informatics Europe
  • Medical Journals Links ,

Standardisations

• CEN TC251, Comité Européen de Normalisation :
• Corbamed, OMG Healthcare DTF, standardisation of interfaces to "software components", using the CORBA technology.
• CISP-2-E, Classification Internationale des Soins Primaires, see above the CISP Club
• CSIZ, Coördinatiepunt Standaardisatie Informatievoorziening in de Zorgsector / Utrecht
• DICOM and DICOM page at Duke univ, an international standard for image related documents
• DUSOI, Duke Severity Of Illness checklist
• e-Europe Smartcards
• ECLIPSE, open extensible development platform,
• Galen, a large thesaurus of medical concepts, at the university of Manchester.
• GEHR, Good Electronic Health Record, an European Object Oriented medical information architecture
• HL7, a standard of medical message exchange, the most frequently used in US and worldwide. The next version, V3, will be OO and XML based. See also the Stichting HL7 Nederland
• IBN, Institut Belge de Normalisation - Belgisch Instituut voor Normalisatie - Belgian Institute for Standardisation
• ICD9-CM, international classification of disease, from the WHO
• ICPC-2-E, International Classification of Primary Care, see above the WONCA
• ISO, International Standard Organisation, ISO/TC 215, the Healthcare Commitee. The "CEN TC251" and the "ISO TC215" intend to achieve a closer collaboration. WG1, Health Records and Information Modelling Coordination, - WG2 - WG3, Health Concept Representation - WG4, Security
• ISOC, Internet Society Belgium
• KMEHR, Kindly Marked-Up Electronic Healthcare Record, Belgian standard of messages exchange of medical record elements, using XML.
• LOINC, Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, from the Regenstrief Institute at the Indiana University School of Medicine
• NEN, Nederlands Normalisatie Instituut
• NST, Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine
• OII, European Commission's Open Information Interchange service
• OpenGALEN
• OSF, Open Software Foundation,
• PCS/E, Patient Classification Systems, Europe
• SISO, Standarden Informatie Systeem Online, a large registry of standards with search tools, by the CSIZ, Coördinatiepunt Standaardisatie Informatievoorziening in de Zorgsector, in Utrecht. See also the links to other standardisation web sites in Europe.
• SNOMED, a multiaxial classification, initially developped by pathologists, but later extended for clinial use.
• UNICODE
• WICC, WONCA International Classification Committee
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• Other overviews of standards :
  • Overview maintained by the WHO eHealth Standardization and Coordination Group
  • Euro-med-data / ULB : Some classifications and terminologies in use in medical computerised registration systems/ and morbidity database related links
  • Healthcare Informatics Standards / Duke University

Official Healthcare Organisations

• ABH-BVZ, Association Belge des Hopitaux - Belgisch Vereniging der Ziekenhuizen
• Belgian Ministry of Health
  • Soins de Santé - Gezondheidszorg,
  • Telematics - Telematica,
  • GP Medical Record Accreditation,
• Deutschland : Bundesministerium für Gesundheit
• Europe - CORDIS : healthcare projects
• Europe : Informations Society
• EUPHA, European Public Health Association
• France: Ministère de la Santé,
• GBS, Web site of the Medical Specialist Associations in Belgium
• INAMI - RIZIV, Belgian National Institute for Health Insurance,
• Nederland: KNMG, Koninklijke Nederlandsche Maatschappij tot bevordering der Geneeskunst
• National Health IT Programs, overview in Europe provided by Open Clinical
• Ordre des Médecins - Order des Geneesheren
• OSTC, Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs in Belgium
• UEMS, European Union of Medical specialists
• UK: NHS,
• US: Health Information Technology,http://www.healthit.gov/
• WHO, World Health Organization and WHO Europe / Copenhagen

Other healthcare informatics related links of interest

• HIWW, Health Informatics World Wide,
• Université de Rouen : Sites médicaux dans le monde, et sites d'Informatique Médicale francophones.
• HON, Health on The Net Foundation, a non profit organization providing ethical certificatons of web sites related to health knowledge, according to the HON Code of Conduct
• Artsennet / Nederland
• Medimedianet, Journal du Médecin - Artsen Krant
• Health Informatics World Wide, overview maintaned by the University of Freiburg /Germany,
• Medical Informatics Links, at the Duke University.
• National Library of Medicine / USA
• Links to continuing medical education sites, a review compiled by Healthcare Computing Publications, Inc / New York
• Medical Conferences, an international commercial congres organizer.
• Inter@ctive Santé
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Hospitals and medical organisations

• Health Ministry :  (FR hopitals list and map) -(NL hospitals list and map),
• Hospitals.be / Association Belge des Hopitaux - Belgisch Vereniging der Ziekenhuizen
• Some Belgian hospitals, known having a website
• Ziekenhuizen in Nederland
• Hôpitaux en France
• International "HospitalWeb"
• Some pages focusing on specific healthcare issues :
  • www.cancer.be
  • Pharma-Net
  • Diabetes Home Page
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Links to some Medical Softwares

Note: Keep in mind that the MIM takes no responsibility in the content of the referred pages.
A few keywords are only intended to help to see some of the most typical aspects, but do not represent an overview of all the activities and products. 
This provisional list is not complete, please send information.

• Accrimed-2000, (GP label 2002 on version 4.0)
• Corines, a project for structured medical records
• Cegeka, hospital information system
• DMO, (GP label 2002 on version 2.3)
• Epicure, (GP label 2002 on version 2.0)
• Euro112, a patient oriented portal and patient owned records on the web.
• Health One , (GP label on version 3.6), HDMP, Health Data Management Partners, medical records, HEALTH one
• Hippocrate, medical records
• Hiscom, large hospital information system,
• IMed, medical record communication standard, interface with ECG, lungfunction, ..
• Language & Computing, medical natural language engineering,
• Le Généraliste, (GP label 2002 on verion 4.0.0), PC Solution
• Meda, medical filing,
• Medibridge, secured communication systems,
• Medicis, (GP label 2002)
• Medidoc (GP label 2002 on version 3.7), Datasoft Management, medical records
• Medigest, (GP label 2002 on version 2002-2), Eudata-Medigest, medical records,
• Medipocket, mobile medical solution
• MediRing, secured communication systems,
• Mediwin, (GP label 2002 on version 4.0.0), medical records,
• Mepas, (GP label 2002 on version 3.1.0.4), Domus Software Development
• Medsoft, (GP label 2002 on version M21)
• MEXI, Medical Exchanges via Internet
• MIPS, laboratory information system,
• Molis, laboratory information system,
• Omnipro, (GP label 2002 on version 20.10.8), MIMS, medical records, système hospitalier.
• Omnisoft, medical records,
• Prescribe, a prescription module,
• Pricare, (GP label 2002)
• Pro-GRAM, medical knowledge project in a group of Dutch academic hopsitals
• Quadrat, solutions for medico-technical departments, particularly images.
• Socrate Médical, (GP label 2002 on version 4.0), medical records,
• Toubib, medical record
• UltaGenda, a clinical resource schedulling system,
• Windoc, (GP label 2002), medical records,
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