Working Groups

AMIA Working Groups serve as networks in which current members can exchange information on a particular area of special interest in biomedical and health informatics.

Working Groups provide a way for members old and new to collaborate, meet new colleagues and become involved in the development of positions, issues, white papers, programs, and other activities that benefit the informatics community.

Each Working Group extends to an online community in which members discuss key issues and developments in the field.

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Applications are currently being accepted to fill leadership positions within 25 AMIA Working Groups.

Deadline: July 18, 2025

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AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF) Working Group

AMIA Clinical Informatics Fellows (ACIF) is the home within AMIA for Clinical Informatics Fellows nationwide.

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Biomedical Imaging Informatics Working Group

Biomedical imaging is vital to patient care and increasingly prevalent in the basic sciences. Biomedical imaging informatics is a rapidly growing discipline that focuses on optimally accessing and using images, knowledge, and data associated with images in research and clinical care.

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Climate, Health and Informatics Working Group

Help us protect human and planetary health for future generations. Join our WG to apply your biomedical informatics expertise to cutting pollution and waste, and making a difference!

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Clinical Decision Support Working Group

The purpose of Clinical Decision Support Working Group is to gather AMIA members sharing an interest in clinical decision support for in-person and electronic discussions, share ideas and experiences in this area, and help organize clinical decision support activities at AMIA meetings.

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Clinical Information Systems Working Group

The CIS WG accomplishes its goals by involving its members, as well as identifying and carrying out activities deemed important to the membership, including, educational and research activities.

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Clinical Research Informatics Working Group

The Clinical Research Informatics Working Group's mission is to advance the discipline of Clinical Research Informatics (CRI) by fostering interaction, discussion and collaboration among individuals and groups involved or interested in the practice and study of CRI, and to serve as the home for CRI professionals within AMIA.

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Consumer Health Informatics Working Group

A community of health informatics researchers and professionals dedicated to the inclusion of diverse consumer perspectives who lead the generation of new knowledge and impactful solutions to improve health in everyday settings and the continuum of healthcare.

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Data Linkage Working Group Working Group

Data linkage is the art and science of identifying and bringing together data that arises from the same entity. The purpose of the Data Linkage Working Group is to bring together AMIA members, students, industry partners and interested practitioners to advance novel methods and applications of data linkage applied to health and biomedicine.

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Dental Informatics Working Group

The mission of the Dental Informatics Working Group is to serve as the focus for individuals and organizations with interest or involvement in health informatics with an emphasis on dental informatics.

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Education Working Group

Members of the Education Working Group advance the teaching of informatics as a discipline and promote clinical transformation through the integration of health information technology into the curriculum of health professionals. The Education Working Group is engaged in research efforts aimed at understanding the present climate and improving informatics education.

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Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Working Group

Ethical, legal, and social issues must be considered whenever information technology is employed. AMIA’s Ethical, Legal and Social Issues Working Group addresses these topics in the context of health information technology and information systems.

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Genomics and Translational Bioinformatics Working Group

To facilitate communication, collaboration, training, and networking for researchers working at the interfaces between bio-molecular and clinical data in order to advance the clinical use of genomics data through TBI, thereby furthering the practice of precision medicine

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Global Health Informatics Working Group

The mission is sharing of informatics best practices in resource-constrained countries.

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Health and Healthcare Equity Working Group

The Health and Healthcare Equity fosters a network of informaticists concerned with health and healthcare equity, and catalyze research and professional practice to advance equity in the discipline.

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Informatics Maturity Working Group Working Group

Maturity models are instruments to define and facilitate organization management with regard to a particular function or behavior. Maturity models allow organizational self-assessment based on multiple axes, including organizational culture, process standardization and technology to arrive at a final overall maturity level, and also allowing organizations to identify areas of weakness.

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Intensive Care Informatics Working Group

The goal of the Intensive Care Informatics Working Group is to improve outcomes of critically ill and injured patients with the help of medical informatics.

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Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining focuses on the process of extracting meaningful patterns from biomedical data (knowledge discovery), using automated computational and statistical tools and techniques on large datasets (data mining).

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Knowledge Representation and Semantics Working Group

Knowledge Representation furthers research on formalisms and tools for semantically precise and computable knowledge representation in relation to biomedicine.

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Learning Health Systems Working Group Working Group

The goals of the AMIA LHS-WG are to build a community of LHS practitioners and researchers in AMIA, foster LHS research and applications, and establish connections among the group from different scientific backgrounds including outside of informatics, and countries.

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Mental Health Informatics Working Group

MHI-WG aims to promote and facilitate opportunities to develop and apply informatics methods and approaches in the context of mental health research and care.

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Natural Language Processing Working Group

The mission of the Natural Language Processing is to develop, apply, and promote natural language processing in biomedical science, patient care, public health and biomedical education.

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Nursing Informatics Working Group

Nursing Informatics is the "science and practice (that) integrates nursing, its information and knowledge, with management of information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families, and communities worldwide."

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People and Organizational Issues-Evaluation Working Group

The mission of the People and Organizational Issues-Evaluation (POI-Eval) Working Group is to study the interactions between people and technology, including designing, implementing, evaluating, and optimizing safe and usable health information systems and technology.

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Pharmacoinformatics Working Group

The PI Working group is comprised of AMIA members who are interested in the intersection of informatics, technology and medication management. It is our intention to initiate innovation and patient safety at the nexus of informatics, technology, and medication management for efficient, beneficial patient health care.

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Primary Care Informatics Working Group

The Primary Care Informatics Working Group's mission is to provide an environment for discussion of, education about, and research into primary-care informatics, for the benefit of AMIA members involved in or working with the practice, research, or teaching of primary-care disciplines.

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Public Health Informatics Working Group

Public Health Informatics is the application of informatics in areas of public health, including surveillance, reporting, and health promotion.

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Student Working Group

AMIA's Student Working Group provides a forum in which informatics students can share their educational experiences and viewpoints, as well as information about career and educational opportunities.

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Surgical and Procedural Informatics Working Group

The Surgical and Procedural Informatics Working Group serves as the academic home for professionals focused on informatics, idea exchange, and collaboration within surgical and procedural contexts.

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Visual Analytics Working Group

The mission is to promote the development and validation of new visual analytical techniques that can be used to address some of the fundamental data and informatics challenges evident in the healthcare domain

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