Who are AMIAs members?
AMIA’s individual members are physicians, nurses, dentists, biomedical engineers, medical librarians, researchers, scientists, educators, students and other health care professionals who have a strong interest in biomedical and health informatics. AMIA’s institutional and corporate members are nonprofit organizations, associations, universities, hospitals, libraries and corporations with an interest in biomedical and health informatics. • What is biomedical and health informatics? Medical informatics has to do with all aspects of understanding and promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care. While the field of biomedical and health informatics shares the general scope of these interests with some other health care specialties and disciplines, biomedical and health informatics has developed its own areas of emphasis and approaches that have set it apart from other disciplines and specialties. For one, a common thread through biomedic
