

UTAS scholarship for health informatics
Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) members will be eligible to apply for a scholarship to undertake a health informatics degree at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). UTAS is offering the Bachelor of e-Health (Health Informatics) Professional Honours on a scholarship basis to HISA members. Applications are open from September with the course commencing in [...]
Consultation underway on nursing informatics paper
CONSULTATION PHASE IS NOW CLOSED The Australian College of Nursing (ACN), HISA and Nursing Informatics Australia (NIA) are collaborating on a position paper to affirm the role of nurses in digital healthcare at all levels and in all health settings. The draft position paper makes a call to action for nurses to obtain the informatics [...]
Digital hospital design group changing with the times
The Digital Hospital Design community of practice at HISA started seven years ago when there was an unprecedented program for the construction of new hospitals and at the time the focus was on the interface between built environment design and technology. While we have made a significant contribution to this discussion, it has become clear [...]
HITWA 2016 success in Perth
HITWA 2016 once again had a packed agenda and a healthy turn-up at the WA Convention Centre. We were pleased to welcome the Director General of WA Health Dr David Russell-Weisz to officially start the day's proceedings, with the Shadow Minister for Health Roger Cook giving a closing address. Number of tweets during and after [...]