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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Yearb Med Inform 2021; 30(01): 335-339
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1726497
Information on IMIA Regional Groups

North American Medical Informatics (NAMI)

James J. Cimino
1   American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, MD, USA
2   University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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André Kushniruk
3   Digital Health Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4   School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
,
Marc Casselman
3   Digital Health Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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This article reports on North America for both the United States (AMIA) and Canada (Digital Health Canada). In both countries, there have been significant moves to broaden the scope of the national informatics associations and increase the range and scope of memberships. Both countries continue to expand their programs, events, and work in areas such as education, certification, and exposure and dissemination of advances at all levels of the healthcare ecosystem.



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21 April 2021

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