AMDIS

What AMDIS does

AMDIS (Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems) is a nonprofit professional membership association founded in 1991 that exclusively serves physician informatics leaders, primarily Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs), medical directors of information systems, and physician executives leading clinical informatics initiatives in US healthcare organizations. The organization is incorporated as AMDIS Inc. in California and headquartered at 682 Peninsula Drive, Lake Almanor, CA, with no parent company, subsidiaries, or institutional investors.

AMDIS delivers value through a portfolio of member-facing programs rather than software products. The flagship is the annual Physician-Computer Connection (PCC) Symposium, with the 35th edition scheduled for June 16-19, 2026 at the Ojai Valley Inn in California, covering EHR optimization, AI/ML, interoperability, and clinical decision support. Adjacent offerings include the CMIO Crash Course (a pre-conference intensive for new and aspiring CMIOs), the AMDIS Community online discussion forum hosted at community.amdis.org, structured webinars, the AMDIS Awards program, a careers board, and an annual compensation survey co-developed with WittKieffer. The technology footprint is correspondingly light: a WordPress-based marketing site, a community forum platform supported by Plexina, and standard membership/event registration workflows. No APIs, SDKs, mobile applications, or proprietary technology products are offered.

The business model is a traditional professional association construct with three revenue streams: recurring membership dues (individual, group, and foundation tiers), one-time conference registration fees ($1,595 for AMDIS members and $1,795 for non-members at the PCC Symposium), and corporate event sponsorships from healthcare IT vendors (including IMO, Philips Healthcare, KLAS, NSGA, and Gartner as a research partner). Distribution is entirely direct-to-member via the AMDIS website, with no channel partners or resellers. AMDIS partners with Gartner for annual CMIO survey research and with KLAS for healthcare IT market intelligence, both presented at the PCC Symposium. The company serves a niche but strategically important persona within the US healthcare system, with no current geographic expansion or product diversification into adjacent informatics disciplines.

Name

AMDIS

Legal name

AMDIS Inc.

Website

https://amdis.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Short description

AMDIS is a nonprofit professional membership association founded in 1991 that exclusively serves physician informatics leaders, primarily CMIOs and physician executives, in US healthcare organizations through its annual PCC Symposium, CMIO Crash Course, online community forum, webinars, and compensation surveys.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Healthcare Informatics Association

NAICS

Professional Organizations (813920), Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAHACAA

Association & Society Conference Management (Nonprofit, Professional Bodies)

Travel & Hospitality/MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Exhibitions)/Professional Conference Organizers (PCOs) & Meeting Planners

Keywords

• Professional association services
• Medical informatics membership
• Physician leadership events
• CMIO training programs
• Healthcare IT networking

Headquarters

HQ city

Westwood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Individual and group membership fees providing access to professional community, resources, and networking
2. Conference Registration: Registration fees for PCC Symposium and CMIO Crash Course events - individual member $1595, non-member $1795
3. Compensation Survey: Annual CMIO compensation survey reports available to members and possibly non-members

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

AMDIS is a nonprofit professional membership association that provides individual, group, and foundation memberships to physician informatics leaders. Its core offerings are the annual Physician-Computer Connection (PCC) Symposium, the CMIO Crash Course pre-conference training, an online AMDIS Community discussion forum, member webinars, an awards program, and an annual CMIO compensation survey report.

Product overview

AMDIS (Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems) is a professional membership organization for physician informatics leaders, not a software product company. The organization provides member services including the annual Physician-Computer Connection (PCC) Symposium, CMIO Crash Course training events, the AMDIS Community discussion forum, webinars, awards programs, career resources, and an annual Compensation Survey. These offerings support clinical informatics professionals in healthcare organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Physician-Computer Connection (PCC) Symposium: The annual flagship conference of AMDIS, held at Ojai Valley Inn, California
• CMIO Crash Course
• AMDIS Community

Products and services

• Physician-Computer Connection (PCC) Symposium The annual flagship conference of AMDIS featuring expert presentations on healthcare informatics topics including EHR optimization, AI/machine learning, interoperability, and clinical decision support. Targeted at physician informatics leaders, CMIOs, and healthcare IT professionals; registration priced at $1,595 for AMDIS members and $1,795 for non-members.
• CMIO Crash Course A pre-conference intensive training program for Chief Medical Information Officers and physician informatics leaders. Targeted at new and aspiring CMIOs seeking to develop leadership skills in clinical informatics.
• AMDIS Community Online community discussion forum at community.amdis.org for AMDIS members to engage in professional networking, knowledge sharing, and peer support in clinical informatics. Supported by Plexina.
• AMDIS Webinars Live and on-demand online educational sessions covering current topics in medical informatics, healthcare technology, and clinical leadership for AMDIS members.
• AMDIS Awards Program Annual recognition program honoring excellence and leadership in medical informatics, with awards presented at the PCC Symposium.
• CMIO Compensation Survey Annual compensation survey report for physician informatics leaders, conducted in partnership with WittKieffer, providing benchmarking data on CMIO and related roles. Available to AMDIS members.
• Individual Membership Individual physician membership providing access to the AMDIS Community forum, member webinars, the AMDIS Awards program, and reduced registration pricing for the PCC Symposium. Targeted at CMIOs, medical directors of information systems, and physician informatics leaders.
• Group Membership Group membership tier for healthcare organizations to enroll multiple physician informatics staff under a single AMDIS membership, providing each member with full individual-level benefits.
• Foundation Membership Foundation-level AMDIS membership for organizations and individuals supporting the association's mission to advance physician informatics leadership.

Named customers2 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• PlexinaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPlexina supports the AMDIS Community platform and is acknowledged as a supporter of AMDIS and the AMDIS Community discussion forum.
• IMO (Intelligent Medical Objects)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerIMO sponsored the welcome reception at the AMDIS PCC 2017 conference.
• Philips HealthcareminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPhilips Healthcare sponsored breakfast at the AMDIS PCC 2017 conference.
• KLAScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKLAS provides regular market updates at AMDIS PCC Symposia and collaborates on healthcare IT research and analytics tracks.
• NSGAminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNSGA sponsored breakfast focus groups at the AMDIS PCC 2017 conference.
• GartnercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAMDIS partners with Gartner to conduct annual CMIO surveys and present findings at PCC Symposia, providing market intelligence for physician informatics leaders.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society): HIMSS is a much larger established healthcare-IT membership organization running the flagship annual conference that dwarfs AMDIS's PCC Symposium, with overlapping CMIO/physician informatics programming. It competes for enterprise sponsorships and broad healthcare-IT membership but does not specialize in physician-only informatics like AMDIS.
• ACHE (American College of Healthcare Executives): ACHE is a long-standing US professional association for healthcare executives, with Congress on Healthcare Leadership and Fellow (FACHE) credentialing. It serves a broader executive audience than AMDIS but competes for sponsorship dollars from health systems and consulting firms targeting physician leaders.
• AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association): AHIMA is a large, established US healthcare membership association covering health information management, coding, and informatics. While its member base is different (HIM professionals), it competes for the same healthcare-IT conference sponsorship budget and produces overlapping educational content in clinical informatics.
• MGMA (Medical Group Management Association): MGMA is a US-based professional association serving medical group practice administrators and physician leaders with annual conferences (MGMA Annual, Collaboration Conference) and industry benchmarking surveys. It shares AMDIS's event-driven, membership-funded model and overlaps on physician executive content.

Others

• KLAS Research: KLAS is a healthcare-IT research and benchmarking firm that already partners with AMDIS on PCC Symposium research tracks. It is thematically adjacent (industry intelligence for healthcare informatics) but not a membership association; it competes with AMDIS's research output rather than its events.

Direct peers

• AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association): AMIA is a US-based professional association for the broader medical informatics community, including physicians, nurses, and researchers. It runs an Annual Symposium, JAMIA journal, and clinical informatics board review courses, overlapping with AMDIS on educational programming for physician informaticists pursuing Clinical Informatics certification.
• CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives): CHIME is the closest direct peer - a US-based member association serving senior healthcare IT executives (CIOs, CMIOs). It runs annual forums, tracks (CHIME/AEHIS for CMIOs specifically), and certification/credentialing programming, directly competing with AMDIS for CMIO mindshare and sponsorship dollars in physician informatics.

Emerging players

• ANIA (American Nursing Informatics Association): ANIA is a smaller US specialty association focused on nursing informatics with annual conferences and certification support. It is a thematic peer to AMDIS - serving a different clinician informatics niche but using a similar event, membership, and webinar-based model and competing for healthcare informatics sponsorship budgets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

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