Benefits of Membership

Members of the Primary Care Informatics Working Group promote and encourage the appropriate development and use of medical informatics in the practice, research, and teaching of primary-care disciplines.  The Working Group has elected leaders and currently has committees on Education, Communication, Infrastructure and Research.  Other standing ad hoc committees are formed as necessary.  Members of the working group are encouraged to participate in these committees.  Please e-mail the chair for more information about current activities and what you could contribute.  The Working Group welcomes all AMIA members with an interest in primary-care informatics, whether clinician or not, from the U.S. and elsewhere; all perspectives are valued.  The current membership of over 600 includes family physicians, internists, nurse practitioners, pediatricians, geriatricians, academicians, managers, psychologists, informaticians and journalists from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.

Other Benefits

Membership in a working group provides opportunities to participate in activities and projects, such as the following.

• Preparation of White Papers (usually for publication in JAMIA or Informatics in Primary Care)
• Papers and workshops sponsored by the PCIWG for the AMIA Annual Symposia
• Special topic conferences or meetings on primary care informatics themes
• Position statements

Many of the papers and presentations originating from our Working Group are available on our PapersAndPresentations pages.

There are also a number of networking opportunities, including the ones below.

• E-mail discussion lists
• Business meetings at Annual Symposia
• The PCIWG suite at Annual Symposia, which provides a meeting place for networking, small meetings, and informal demonstrations, tutorials and seminar
• Special other meetings often scheduled at the Spring Congress

The AMIA PCIWG is proud to be a sponsor of Informatics in Primary Care, an international journal dedicated to publishing papers, articles and news from around the world on primary care informatics.

The AMIA PCIWG is also represented on the Board of the National Alliance for Primary Care Informatics (NAPCI), and has links with the International Medical Informatics Association Working Group 5: Primary Care, the European Federation of Medical Informatics Primary Care Informatics Working Group, and the WONCA Informatics Working Party.