The Georgian Association of Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering (GAMIBE) was founded in 1990 on the basic of the former Georgian Division of the All-Union Medical-Technical Society. However, the activities in Georgia in the field of the implementation of mathematical tools and computer techniques in medicine and health care began as early as 1968, when the Department of Medical Cybernetics at the Research Institute of Clinical and  Experimental Surgery was organized.
Medical informatics specialists, under the guidance of the above mentioned predecessor of GAMIBE, have development and implemented number of projects, particularly information systems for medical statistics, for sanitary-epidemiological surveillance, several hospital and  policlinical information system, medical personnel retrieval systems, various accounting systems, etc. They have conducted research in psychophysiology (together with colleagues from Germany), in modeling processes in the human organism, and other investigations. The Georgian specialists of medical informatics took part in many conferences and congresses in Moscow and other parts of the former Soviet Union. There are many publications on different issues in the field, mostly in the Georgian or Russian language.
Since 1971, four National Conferences on Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering were held. Especially the fourth Conference of 1990 is worth mentioning. At this Conference, which took place in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, specialists of many countries took part, particularly the members of the IMIA Board. The IMIA Board Meeting was held during that Conference. The Proceedings of the 4th National Conference were then published in original languages which they were presented.
After 1991, when Georgia became independent, GAMIBE tried to take active part in the activity of  IMIA. Since September 1993, GAMIBE is a national member of IMIA.
Since 1993, the activities of GAMIBE  substantially slowed down, mainly because of the critical political and economic situation in the Georgian societyas a whole, which is characteristic for a transition period. The year 1998 is expected to be a turning-point.  A number of working groups have restarted their activities. Organizing the 5th National Conference on Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering is envisaged.