The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is an organization of leaders shaping the future of health information technology in the United States and abroad. AMIA is dedicated to the development and application of medical informatics in support of patient care, teaching, research, and health care administration. AMIA links developers and users of health information technology, creating an environment which fosters advances that revolutionize health care. Membership is open to individuals, institutions, and corporations. For more information visit www.amia.org

Since its founding in 1997, the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) is the premier professional organization for physicians interested in and responsible for healthcare information technology. For information visit www.amdis.org.

Formed in 1992, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has become the leading organization dedicated to serving the professional needs of healthcare CIOs and advancing the strategic application of information management in healthcare. With more than 900 members nationwide, CHIME has established a track record of unequaled accomplishments in its growth and beneficial offerings to its CIO members. For more information visit www.chime-foundation.org.

The eHealth Initiative and its Foundation are independent, non-profit affiliated organizations whose missions are the same: to drive improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information and information technology. eHI engages multiple stakeholders, including clinicians, consumer and patient groups, employers, health plans, healthcare IT suppliers, hospitals and other providers, laboratories, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, pharmacies, public health, and public sector agencies, as well as its growing coalition of more than 280 state, regional and community-based collaboratives, to develop and disseminate common principles, policies and best practices for improving the quality, safety and effectiveness of America's healthcare through information and information technology. For more information visit www.ehealthinitiative.org

epSOS is a Large Scale Pilot Project, encompassing the work of health ministries, regional competence centers and industry stakeholders in 12 EU member states, intended to progress until the end of 2011over 36 months. The project's aims are to find common definitions for electronic prescriptions (ePrescription) and patient summaries. Facing challenges such as semantic interoperability, as well as data exchange between vastly different national eHealth implementations, epSOS will connect existing implementations and test their interoperability, then develop pilot systems and test them with the intention to create building blocks for future EU eHealth interoperability projects and services. For more information visit www.epsos.eu.

Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven, Inc. (http://www.HL7.org) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited standards developing organization dedicated to providing a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. HL7’s more than 2,000 members represent approximately 500 corporate members, including 90 percent of the largest information systems vendors serving healthcare.

HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is the healthcare industry's membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of human health. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems' contributions to ensuring quality patient care. For more information visit www.himss.org.

The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel serves as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States. For more information visit www.hitsp.org.