About Us:

IMIA-NI is the Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). 

It is a non profit organization, originally established by IMIA in 1983 as Working Group 8 of IMIA, dedicated to serving the specific needs of nurses in the field on nursing informatics. The first meeting of IMIA WG8 was held on 25 August 1983 in Amsterdam, and the first Chair was Maureen Scholes (UK).

The focus of IMIA is to:

- foster collaboration among nurses and others who are interested in nursing informatics;

- explore the scope of nursing informatics and its implication for information handling activities associated with nursing care delivery, nursing administration, nursing research and nursing education, and the various relationships with other health care information systems;

- support the development of nursing informatics in the member countries;

- provide appropriate informatics meetings, conferences and post-conferences and provide opportunities to share knowledge and research to facilitate communication of developments in the field;

- encourage the publication and dissemination of research and development materials in the field of nursing informatics;

- develop recommendations, guidelines and courses related to nursing informatics.

IMIA-NI holds a triennial conference, has an annual General Assembly meeting, and pursues other activities through its Working Groups. 

The General Assembly comprises the Executive Committee (Officers), National Members, Honorary Members and Observers. As of September 2001, we also have members appointed from the Institutional Members of IMIA.
 

The above information is taken from the current (1996) version of the bylaws, and from the book 'International Nursing Informatics: a history of the first forty years, 1960-2000' by Scholes, Tallberg and Pluyter-Wenting, published 2000.