title: IMIA Dynamic Accreditation Procedure: Suggestions, Simplicity and Efficiency.
abstract: The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) is the world body for biomedical and health informatics (BMHI). IMIA accreditation program allows the health and medical informatics programs around the world to reach to an international level. Staffs (professors, students, education programmes directors, others) that work on the accredited BMHI programs will have the opportunity to be engaged with organizations that possess a world-class research and education profile from other countries, which will have great impacts on their field at their institutions, within their country providing the high quality overall health services. IMIA accreditation procedure is usually a long process and slightly complicated. The goal of this paper is to illustrate and to simplify the IMIA accreditation process to increase the success of the applicants. Toward more dynamic IMIA accreditation procedure, the paper presents 4 steps: translation, IMIA-Accreditation Step by Step Guideline, Questions and Answers, and finally the (new) Labelling System.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine Centre, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Alexis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marcano-Cedeño
authors.affiliation: Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development, 3 Cairo-Belbeis Road, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Mohamed A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Wageih
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Engineering and Telemedicine Centre, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Enrique J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.affiliation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 10679. Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mantas
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*