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Societatea Romana de Informatica Medicala

 

IMIA Representative and President:
Prof. Dr. George I Mihalas,

 

 

 

 

IMIA Nursing Informatics SIG Representative
Corina Vernic

Website : Current Board : Upcoming Events & Meetings

 

Romanian Society of Medical Informatics
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.

RSMI was founded in 1990 and 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 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.

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 members serve in several professional and scientific national and international committees and also in various expert groups of the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and Ministry of IT & C. RSMI president was EFMI president (2006-8) and was recently elected as vice-president and regional representative in IMIA.

RSMI is an institutional member of “Prorec Romania”, a national society promoting implementation of EHR in Romania. RSMI is also a member of FRIB  Romanian Federation of Biomedical Engineering.

At a national scale RSMI kept the tradition of yearly conferences: ROMEDINF. The 2006 event was organized in Timisoara, April 6-8, as a joint conference with EFMI 2006 Special Topic Conference, on the topic: ‘Integrating Bio-medical Informatics: from e-Cell to e-Patient.’ The 2007 Conference was held in Sibiu (the cultural capital of Europe) and the 2008 Conference was held in Iassy (13-15 Nov. 2008). The 2009 edition will be held in Satu-Mare in June.