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What is IMIA
• It is an independent organization established under Swiss law in 1989
• IMIA was originally 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.
• IMIA also has close ties with the World Health Organization (WHO) as a NGO (Non Government Organization)
• IMIA is also a Liaison A category organization in cooperation with ISO.
• 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 behavior.
• represent the medical and health informatics field with
the World Health Organization and other international
professional and governmental organizations.
IMIA's goals are
• moving theory into practice by linking
academic and research informaticians
with care givers, consultants, vendors,
and vendor-based researchers.
• leading the international medical and
health informatics communities
throughout the 21st century.
• promoting the cross-fertilization of health informatics information and knowledge across professional and geographical boundaries.
• serving as the catalyst for ubiquitous worldwide health information infrastructures for patient care and health research.
• to provide ethical guidance for the professionals themselves,
• to furnish a set of principles against which the conduct of the professionals may be measured,
• to provide the public with a clear statement of the ethical considerations that should shape the behavior of the professionals themselves.
Fundamental Ethical Principles
• All social interactions are subject to fundamental ethical principles. HIPs function in a social setting. Consequently, their actions are also subject to these principles. The most important of these principles are:
• Principle of Autonomy
- All persons have a fundamental right to self-determination.
• Principle of Equality and Justice
- All persons are equal as persons and have a right to be treated accordingly.
• Principle of Beneficence
- All persons have a duty to advance the good of others where the nature of this good is in keeping with the fundamental and ethically defensible values of the affected party.
• Principle of Non-Malfeasance
- All persons have a duty to prevent harm to other persons insofar as it lies within their power to do so without undue harm to themselves.
• Principle of Impossibility
- All rights and duties hold subject to the condition that it is possible to meet them under the circumstances that obtain.
• Principle of Integrity
- Whoever has an obligation, has a duty to fulfill that obligation to the best of her or his ability.
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