
Innovating Health Series Returns
HISA’s Innovating Health Series returned to Canberra this month for an executive design session on the topic of digital health evolving to improving health outcomes for those who are disadvantaged. The event saw 25+ senior health leaders and executive explore different ways to address a number of practical problems including ‘do not attend’ examples. These [...]
New national CXIO Network launched today
HISA welcomes the launch today of a new network for clinical leaders in digital health. The Chief X Information Officer (CXIO) Network will facilitate digital health adoption and uptake in hospitals and healthcare organisations across Australia. HISA and the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) launched the CXIO Network today in partnership with the Australian [...]
Be part of the health information workforce census
HISA members and the broader digital health community are invited to take part in the first Australian Health Information Workforce census which opens on 1 May. The Census is a collaborative effort between the University of Tasmania, University of Melbourne, HISA, the Australian Digital Health Agency, Australian Library and Information Association Health Libraries Australia, Australasian [...]
Fellowship by Training program: first candidate placed
As part of the Australasian College of Health Informatics Fellowship by Training Program the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has offered a paid six-month work placement to Program candidate Toby Hodgson. Toby has joined ADHA as a Digital Health Officer in the clinical governance division. Candidates are required to complete a health informatics research PhD, [...]
Clinical Informatics in Australia: A temperature check
Clinical governance emerged as a key priority in our recent survey of the HISA Clinical Informatics Community of Practice. More than half of the respondents said clinical governance for implementing systems or process changes was a priority for the coming year. The survey was a temperature check on the state of clinical informatics and organised by HISA for the Community of Practice.