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Health Informatics Specialist Group

Clinical systems, interoperability, bioinformatics and the patient-safety obligations that come with computing in healthcare.

Cadence

Every two months

Meeting pattern

Second Thursday of alternate months, 18:00–20:00 CT

Home venue

Dell Medical School Health Learning Building, Austin, TX

Format

Hybrid — in person with a recorded CPD session

Members

1,490

Founded

2020

Chair

Dr Susan Ihejirika

Role

Chair, Health Informatics Specialist Group

What the group covers

  • Interoperability and health data standards
  • Clinical decision support and safety
  • Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Privacy, consent and secondary use

Upcoming meetings and satellite days

7 November 2026 · In person

Biomedical informatics day

AMIA Symposium venue, Dallas, Dallas, TX — alongside AMIA 2026 Annual Symposium

Clinical NLP, genomic pipelines and evidence standards for health AI.

5 April 2027 · In person

Clinical systems assurance day

HIMSS27 venue, Chicago, Chicago, IL — alongside HIMSS27

Safety cases for clinical AI, interoperability and consent.

Past meetings

  • 3 March 2025Health data interoperability day — The Venetian Convention & Expo Center, Las Vegas, NV (alongside HIMSS25)
  • 9 November 2024Biomedical informatics day — Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, CA (alongside AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium)
  • 11 March 2024Clinical systems assurance day — Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL (alongside HIMSS24)

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