Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics
Encyclopedia
The Hong Kong
Society of Medical Informatics, founded in April 1987 by a group of medical practitioners and informatics
professionals with special interests in medical informatics and computing
and communications.
The Society is a non-profit organization registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
Society of Medical Informatics, founded in April 1987 by a group of medical practitioners and informatics
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
professionals with special interests in medical informatics and computing
Computing
Computing is usually defined as the activity of using and improving computer hardware and software. It is the computer-specific part of information technology...
and communications.
The Society is a non-profit organization registered as a Company Limited by Guarantee.
See also
- Medical Informatics
- Hong Kong Hospital Authority
- Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics
Further reading
- The Development of eHealth in Hong Kong in the past 20 years
- Medical informatics : the state of the art in the Hospital Authority Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics. Conference No3, Hong Kong , HONG-KONG (27/09/2000 2001, vol. 62, no 2-3 (95 p.) (27 ref.), pp. 113-119
External links
- Website
- Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
- Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics
- Hong Kong Society for Medical Informatics @ International Medical Informatics AssociationInternational Medical Informatics AssociationIMIA or the International Medical Informatics Association is an independent organisation that plays a role in promoting and furthering the application of information science in modern society, particularly in the fields of healthcare, bioscience and medicine. It was established in 1967 as a...
- eHealth Consortium