Associations

Provincial

Saskatchewan

Health Services Utilization and Research Commission (HSURC). HSURC is an arm's-length, government-funded agency with a mandate to assess Saskatchewan's health system and make recommendations for evidence-based change. They are also the provincial health research granting agency.(http://www.hsurc.sk.ca/index.php3)

Saskatchewan Health Information Network (SHIN) SHIN's vision is to use Health Information Technology to improve the health of the residents of Saskatchewan. Their mission is to link information electronically for improved decision-making.(http://www.shin.sk.ca/)

British Columbia

Nursing-Informatics.com (http://www.nursing-informatics.com/)

Ontario

The Ontario Nursing Informatics Group (ONIG) (http://www.onig.on.ca/)

National

Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS) (http://www.cips.ca/)

Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) (http://www.cihi.ca/)

Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) (http://www.cnia.ca/)

Canadian Organization for Advancement of Computers in Health (COACH) (http://www.coachorg.com/)

Canadian Society of Telehealth (http://www.cst-sct.org/)

International

American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) (http://www.amia.org/)

American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) (http://www.ania.org)

British Computer Society Special Interest Group (NSG)( http://www.bcsnsg.org.uk/)

The Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in NursinG (CARING) (http://www.caringonline.org/)

Center for Research on Telehealth & Healthcare Communications (University of Florida, http://www.hp.ufl.edu/chp/telehealth/index.html)

Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd (HISA) http://www.hisa.org.au/

Informatics Nurses From Ohio (INFO) (http://junior.apk.net/~lqthede/INFO.htm)

International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) ( France, Sweden, The Netherlands,Japan, Canada, USA, Singapore/Beijing, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Korea) (http://www.imia.org/)

International Medical Informatics Association-Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA-NI) (Currently has members from 27 countries) (http://www.infocom.cqu.edu.au/imia-ni/index.html)

nursing-informatics.net (United Kingdom) (http://www.nursing-informatics.net/)

TelehealthNet (DR. Maheu). Offers information about Telehealth conferences and organizations, discussion lists, newsboards, slide presentations and a library of telehealth information (http://telehealth.net/index.html)