Lun K C
School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Methods Inf Med. 2002;41(1):60-3.
As an international organization with the missions to promote informatics in health care and biomedical research, advance international cooperation, stimulate research, development and education, and disseminate and exchange information, the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) must be constantly cognizant of new developments in medical informatics and address the challenges to the discipline. From an international organization standpoint, it perceives three major challenges viz. the Identity, Organizational and Leadership challenges.
This paper attempts to identify and discuss these challenges and to offer ways to overcome them through the activities of an international organization for medical informatics.
From an international organization standpoint, IMIA can help overcome these organizational challenges by ensuring strong leadership throughout its echelon, actively promoting its goals and objectives worldwide through its national and institutional members as well as its regional groups and encouraging strategic partnerships between its many Working Groups and Special Interest Group on Nursing with other international organizations and industry to further promote the awareness and the perception of the relevance of medical informatics to health and medicine by the international community.
作为一个肩负着在医疗保健和生物医学研究领域推广信息学、推进国际合作、刺激研究、开发与教育以及传播和交流信息使命的国际组织，国际医学信息学协会（IMIA）必须时刻关注医学信息学的新发展，并应对该学科面临的挑战。从国际组织的角度来看，它认识到三个主要挑战，即身份认同、组织架构和领导力挑战。
本文试图识别并讨论这些挑战，并通过一个医学信息学国际组织的活动提供克服这些挑战的方法。
从国际组织的角度来看，IMIA可以通过在其各级确保强有力的领导、通过其国家和机构成员以及区域团体在全球积极推广其目标、鼓励其众多工作组和护理特别兴趣小组与其他国际组织及行业建立战略伙伴关系，来帮助克服这些组织挑战，从而进一步提高国际社会对医学信息学与健康和医学相关性的认识和认知度。
