AMIA Membership Categories

AMIA is the professional home for biomedical and health informatics. AMIA is dedicated to promoting the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy. AMIA's 4,000 members advance the use of health information and communications technology in clinical care and clinical research, personal health management, public health/population, and translational science with the ultimate objective of improving health.

AMIA members encompass an interdisciplinary and diverse group of individuals and organizations that represent over 65 countries. Individual members include physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians, researchers and educators, advanced students pursuing a career in informatics, scientists and developers, government officials and policy makers, consultants and industry representatives, and standards developers.

AMIA offers several categories of individual and organizational membership to help you personalize your involvement and interaction with the association.

Regular Membership

AMIA's regular membership is open to individuals interested in biomedical and health informatics. AMIA members encompass an interdisciplinary and diverse group of individuals and organizations that represent over 65 countries. Regular members include physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and other clinicians, researchers and educators, scientists and developers, government officials and policy makers, consultants, industry representatives and standards developers. Read more about regular membership.

For those informatics professionals who have called AMIA their professional home and are now retired from the field, AMIA offers retired membership benefits at a reduced rate.

Student Membership

AMIA student membership is open to students who are pursuing a degree in biomedical and health informatics and other programs related to HIT. Student benefits and membership rates apply to full-time and part-time undergraduate students, graduate students, residents, and post-doctoral fellows. Read more about student membership.

Corporate Membership

AMIA creates a sustainable synergistic relationship that benefits AMIA corporate members and industry partners. AMIA corporate members are executives and decision-makers representing the broad health informatics sector including biotechnology, consulting firms, consumer groups, device manufacturers, finance organizations, insurers, managed care, pharmaceutical companies, regulatory and government organizations, research organizations, and think tanks. AMIA's corporate members contribute to our intellectual resources to help sustain and recognize continuous innovation and advances in health informatics training, education, research, and practice. AMIA tailors the level of corporate member benefits to best suit your needs. Read more about corporate membership. For a full listing of current corporate members, please click here.

Affiliate Membership

AMIA's affiliate membership is open to those individuals who are not directly involved in the field of biomedical and health informatics but are interested in AMIA membership with a limited number of benefits. Read more about affiliate membership.