MEDINFO is the name of the international

International

----International mostly means something that involves more than one country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries...

 medical informatics conference

Academic conference

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 organized every 3 years by the International Medical Informatics Association

International Medical Informatics Association

IMIA or the International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organisation that plays a role in promoting and furthering the application of information science in modern society, particularly in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine. It was established in 1967 as a...

. It is the most important international conference in the field with 3000+ 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 is on a 5 year cycle and the Vice President of Medinfo has one 3 year cycle and elected the year before the next Medinfo meeting so that he/she can be mentored through one Medinfo cycle.

MEDINFO conferences

MEDINFO has been held every 3 years since its inception in 1974. 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 International Federation for Information Processing The International Federation for Information Processing is an umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information technology. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with offices in Laxenburg, Austria...  World Congress		Francois Grémy	John Anderson, J. Malcolm Forsythe
2	1977	Aug 8-12	Toronto, Canada	IFIP International Federation for Information Processing The International Federation for Information Processing is an umbrella organization for national societies working in the field of information technology. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with offices in Laxenburg, Austria...  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	Donald A. B. Lindberg	Jan van Bemmel, Edward H. Shortliffe Edward H. Shortliffe Edward Hance Shortliffe, MD, PhD is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician and computer scientist. Dr. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine...	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 American Medical Informatics Association AMIA, formerly known as the American Medical Informatics Association, is an American non-profit organization dedicated to the development and application of biomedical and health informatics in the support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration.- History :AMIA is the...	Edward H. Shortliffe Edward H. Shortliffe Edward Hance Shortliffe, MD, PhD is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician and computer scientist. Dr. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine...	Mario Stefanelli, Casimir Kulikowski	Marius Fieschi, Enrico Coiera, Yu-Chan Jack Li
11	2007	Aug 20–24	Brisbane, Australia	Health Informatics Society of Australia	Evelyn J.S. Hovenga	Alexa T. McCray, Heimar de Fátima Marin Heimar de Fátima Marin Heimar de Fátima Marin, RN, MS, Ph.D., FACMI is a nurse who has devoted her professional career to improving patient care using information and communication technologies. She is Full Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo ....	Klaus. A. Kuhn, James R. Warren, Tze-Yun Leong
12	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 Heimar de Fátima Marin Heimar de Fátima Marin, RN, MS, Ph.D., FACMI is a nurse who has devoted her professional career to improving patient care using information and communication technologies. She is Full Professor at the Federal University of São Paulo .... , Shane Reti

Other definitions

Medinfo is also an acronym for Medical Information, often a pharmaceutical information service provided by pharmacovigilance

Pharmacovigilance

Pharmacovigilance is the pharmacological science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines...

or medical affairs departments.