An informal Francophone community of medical informaticians has existed for decades and has been meeting every other year at the “Journées Francophones d’Informatique Médicale” (JFIM). The history of the JFIM meetings, listed below, shows an increasing internationalization of the meeting, reflecting the widening constituency of the Francophone medical informatics community:
Montpellier – 1988 Nîmes – 1990 Paris – 1991
Bruxelles – 1993 Genève – 1994 Paris – 1996
Liège – 1998 Marseille – 2000 Québec – 2002
Tunis – 2003 Lille – 2005 Bamako – 2007
Nice – 2009 Tunis – 2011 Fès – 2014 Genève – 2016
The Francophone SIG aims to help the continuation of the JFIM series by organizing its rotation and passing on its traditions and organizational standards. It also organises francophone symposia associated to the MEDINFO conference:
Copenhague – 2013 Lyon – 2019 Nice – 2022
The last conference organised under the auspices of the Francophone SIG was the Francophone workshop at the MIE 2022 conference in Nice (France) on May 29, 2022.