HIC'09, Australia's Health Informatics Conference will be held in Canberra at the National Convention Centre from 19 - 21 August 2009. Presented by the Health Informatics Society of Australia, HIC'09 brings together a broad community of those involved in healthcare, the information sciences and industry. The theme of the conference is "Frontiers of Health Informatics - Redefining Healthcare"

HIC'09 will hold multiple workshops on 19 August 2009 in Canberra, Australia, co-located with the main conference (http://www.hisa.org.au/hic09). Workshops offer participants with a common interest the opportunity to gather for discussions and presentations prior to the opening of the conference. Available workshops now include:

v NEHTA workshop – SNOMED CT and PIP (1)
Paul Frosdick and Paul Burham

v Introduction to standards for interoperability in health (1)
Koray Atalag, Vincent MacCauley, Hugh Leslie, Heather Grain

v Implementing a state-wide eMR to effect a clinical transformation (NSW Health) (1)
Ronan Herlihy, Mike Rillstone, Bruce Pedersen, Eleanore Fuchter, Howard Dawson, Stephen Mattes

v Informatics at the frontier of healthcare management (1)
Chris Bain

v Introduction to health informatics
Michael Legg, Anthony Maeder, Katerina Andronis

v NEHTA workshop – SNOMED CT and PIP (2)
Paul Frosdick and Paul Burham

v Introduction to standards for interoperability in health (2)
Koray Atalag, Vincent MacCauley, Hugh Leszlie, Heather Grain

v Implementing a state-wide eMR to effect a clinical transformation (NSW Health) (2)
Ronan Herlihy, Mike Rillstone, Bruce Pedersen, Eleanore Fuchter, Howard Dawson, Stephen Mattes

v Informatics at the frontier of healthcare management (2)
Chris Bain

v Linking eHealth to health reform: A system approach
Geoff McDonnell

v Privacy and security
Peter Croll, Tony Sara

v Bioinformatics
David Hansen

v Biogrid
Marienne Hibbert

Submissions of proposals for workshops and tutorials were invited before 16 March 2009. The organisers particularly encouraged proposals related to the following topics of interest:

v Personal health records
v Decision support systems
v Home based eHealth
v Modelling and simulation for health policy development
v Knowledge management of genome-disease correlations
v Public health and consumer informatics
v Biosignal processing
v Guidelines and protocols for evidence-based practice
v Pervasive healthcare

Workshop Submission Guidelines

• Workshop proposals will be submitted on-line HERE or by clicking on the submission button below
• Submission should not exceed 1500 words
• Submission to include the following sections:
  
  1. Workshop title
  2. Authors and affiliations
  3. Learning objectives
  4. Abstract
  5. Planned duration (90 min or 3 hour duration)
  6. Intended audience and content level
  7. Affiliations and short biographies of presenters
• Successful presenters will be allocated 90 minutes or 3 hours for their presentation
• The successful presenter will be required to register for HIC'09 at specially discounted presenters rate
• The closing date for workshop submission is 16 March 2009

Key Dates

Submission of workshop proposal: 16 March 2009
Notification of successful submissions: 6 April 2009
Presenter early bird registration: 30 June 2009

Dr Peter Croll, Chair HIC'09 Organsiing Committee
Dr Vitali Sintchenko, Chair HIC'09 Scientific Program Committee

For further information contact Dr Brendan Lovelock CEO Health Informatics Society of Australia
413 Lygon Street East Brunswick Vic 3057 Australia
Telephone +61 3 9388 0555 Email conference@hisa.org.au