By: Reva Singh, SVP of Policy 

What is your organization’s mission? 

AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) aims to lead the way in transforming health care through trusted science, education, and the practice of informatics. Informatics is the science of utilizing data, information, and knowledge to improve human health and the delivery of health care services. 

Tell us about the communities you serve.  

AMIA is the professional home for more than 6,000 informatics professionals, representing frontline clinicians, researchers, and public health experts who bring meaning to data, manage information, and generate new knowledge across the health and health care enterprise. As the voice of the nation’s biomedical and health informatics professionals, AMIA plays a leading role in advancing health and wellness by moving basic research findings from bench to bedside, and evaluating interventions, innovations and public policy across settings and patient populations. 

What are your organization’s main programs or the issue areas you focus on? 

• • Supporting the health care workforce, particularly through reducing burden on clinicians through the field of informatics. 
  • Evidence-based care and decision support, including machine learning and AI.  
  • Health IT solutions that ameliorate systemic biases and discrimination and increase access to care.  
  • Advocate for informatics research funding.  

How does your work relate to the National Health Council’s mission and the work of our members? 

AMIA’s mission to transform health care through data, evidence, and knowledge is directly relevant to the patients receiving care. Data, evidence, and knowledge that doesn’t include the people the NHC represents would be incomplete and result in further entrenching systemic flaws in our health care system. The NHC’s mission to provide a voice for the people living with chronic diseases and disabilities and their family caregivers, who are regularly engaging the health care system, need to be partners with informaticians to effectively change health care such that it works for everyone. 

What would people be surprised to know about your organization?  

AMIA’s membership is diverse, touching all aspects of health care provision, providing AMIA a unique and comprehensive perspective. AMIA members are clinicians, researchers, educators, biomedical and health science librarians, students, developers and computer scientists, industry professionals, and academic institutions.  

What are you most looking forward to in your work this year? 

AMIA is hosting an in-person policy-focused event in Washington, DC on September 14, 2026. This event, titled Human Judgement in the Age of Clinical AI: Oversight that Protects Patients, will bring AMIA members, NHC, AI clinical decision support tool developers, and policy makers together. This event is a first-of-its-kind for AMIA. The outcomes will be finalizing AMIA’s policy positions on this topic for 2027 advocacy projects, as well as an opportunity to create new partners invested in this highly relevant discussion on the future of health care.  

AMIA is a new member of the National Health Council. For more information on NHC membership, please email membership@nhcouncil.org.