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About The Pan African Health Informatics Association - HELINA

HELINA is an acronym, which stands for “Health Informatics in Africa”. It is the Pan African Health Informatics Association and the African regional body of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). HELINA was founded in 1993. The primary purpose of HELINA is to promote education and research in health informatics in Africa and the implementation of ethical, modern, and evidence-based health informatics to enhance access to quality healthcare in Africa. HELINA subscribes fully to the IMIA vision that “there will be a world-wide systems approach for healthcare. Through this, clinicians, researchers, patients, and people, in general, will be supported by informatics tools, processes, and behaviors that make it easy to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time to improve healthcare for all. This systems approach will incorporate and integrate research, clinical care, and public health.”Transforming healthcare in Africa through health informatics research, development, implementation, and education. HELINA’s Vision Relationship with global organizations and the formation of partnerships to address key challenges. HELINA’s Mission To guide and support national member associations so that they can become the collective voice of health informatics in Africa, providing a meaningful forum for health informatics research, development, implementation, education, standards development, and technology adoption for the region.