about rsmi

Romanian Society of Medical Informatics (RSMI) was established in 1990. Affiliation to EFMI and IMIA followed shortly after.

Romania was represented as a corresponding member in IMIA since 1986 and RSMI has become a full member in 1994, having now representatives in several active working groups of IMIA and EFMI. In the same year 1994 RSMI also joined EFMI.

RSMI has now over 120 members: physicians, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and other professionals working in the field of medical informatics. It continues the tradition of a group of specialists who started to work in this field in 1977.

The Romanian Society for Medical Informatics, RSMI, is a scientific, professional, non-governmental organization aimed to promote the activities in the development of medical informatics in Romania and to represent the activities in the country and abroad.

The activities of RSMI concern stimulation and co-ordination of the activities of its members in promoting medical informatics in the country and to support international co-operation in this field, which implies:

• organizing scientific and professional conferences, symposia, courses and exhibitions and collaboration in such activities with related organizations;
• publication of scientific, professional and educational documents and papers in the field of medical informatics;
• dissemination of information about conferences, publications and links to websites web sites on medical and health informatics;
• promoting scientific and professional contacts with similar societies at the international level;
• active involvement to support scientists to attend international meetings;
• collaboration with Romanian Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences in medical informatics research;
• collaboration with medical universities in developing education and training in medical informatics.

RSMI members serve in several professional and scientific committees and also in various expert groups of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education. RSMI president was recently elected as EFMI vice-president. RSMI is an institutional member of "Prorec Romania", a national society promoting implementation of EHR in Romania.

During 2004 RSMI members participated in two major international events: STC2004 in Muenchen and MEDINFO 2004 in San Francisco.

At a national scale RSMI kept the tradition of yearly conferences, The 27th Conference, organized in co-operation with the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Targu-Mures took place in October 14-16, 2004. The 2006 event will be organized in Timisoara, April 5-8, as a joint conference with EFMI: 2006 Special Topic Conference.

affiliations

EFMI - http://www.efmi.org
The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) was conceived at a meeting, assisted by the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organisation (WHO ), in Copenhagen in September 1976. The representatives of national Health / Medical Informatics societies from ten European countries signed a declaration of intent stating: "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.

Objectives
The objectives of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) founded in 1976 are:

• 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

IMIA - http://www.imia.org
The International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organization established under Swiss law in 1989. The organization was established in 1967 as Technical Committee 4 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). In 1979, it evolved from a Special Interest Group of IFIP to its current status as a fully independent organization. IMIA continues to maintain its relationship with IFIP as an affiliate organization.

The organization also has close ties with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a NGO (Non Government Organization).

Objectives
IMIA plays a major global role in the application of information science and technology in the fields of healthcare and research in medical, health and bio informatics. The basic goals and objectives of the association are to:

• promote informatics in health care and research in health, bio and medical informatics.
• advance and nurture international cooperation.
• to stimulate research, development and routine application.
• move informatics from theory into practice in a full range of health delivery settings, from physician's office to acute and long term care.
• further the dissemination and exchange of knowledge, information and technology.
• promote education and responsible behaviour.
• represent the medical and health informatics field with the World Health Organization and other international professional and governmental organizations.