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Edward H Shortliffe, AMIA president's message, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Volume 18, Issue 3, May 2011, Pages 349–350, https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000232
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Although informatics is often viewed externally as a new discipline, the field has a rich history that dates back at least to the 1960s, with a well-known seminal paper appearing even earlier.1 AMIA itself was created in the late 1980s when three separate informatics organizations, with overlapping interests, saw the value in combining their missions and activities in a single, larger, and more cohesive organization. Those three nonprofit corporate entities (SCAMC: the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care; AAMSI: the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics; and ACMI: the American College of Medical Informatics) dissolved their own charters and pooled resources to form a new organization that would incorporate the activities of all three. SCAMC became the AMIA Annual Symposium, which we hold every fall, AAMSI became the membership organization, and ACMI was re-created within AMIA as its College of elected Fellows. All three activities continue to thrive to this day, as does our annual spring meeting, which owes its roots to the annual AAMSI meeting, which was held at that time of year.
