EFMI Working Groups WG EDUEducation in Health Informatics

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About the Working Group

The first working group established by EFMI, bringing together teachers, programme directors and researchers in Biomedical and Health Informatics education.

History

Education was the first topic around which EFMI organised a working group. Since then, WG EDU members have taken an active part in writing and updating the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Recommendations on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics (2000, 2010 and 2023).

Together with the EFMI Accreditation and Certification committee (AC2) TO VALIDATE: full name of AC2, the group built a database of BMHI programmes in Europe. This site continues that work as an open database.

  1. Founding year TO VALIDATE
    WG EDU established as the first EFMI working group.
  2. 1985
    Rory O'Moore becomes chair of the WG (until 1994).
  3. 1995
    Arie Hasman becomes chair (until 2007).
  4. 2000
    First IMIA Recommendations on education in health and medical informatics published.
  5. 2008
    John Mantas becomes chair (until 2021).
  6. 2010
    First revision of the IMIA Recommendations.
  7. 2021
    Kaija Saranto becomes chair.
  8. 2022
    International Symposium on Achievements, Milestones and Challenges in BMHI, Athens (29 October), convened by John Mantas.
  9. 2023
    Second revision of the IMIA Recommendations published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
  10. 2025
    Meeting at MIE 2025 (Glasgow) to plan a European BMHI Education Database with AC2; the University of Porto takes over the WG website.
  11. 2026
    New website with open data, guidelines and a GenAI Lab for teachers.