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Time to reflect on 25+years of history and achievement in health informatics
ACHI and HISA Members and Fellows have voted to unite and form the Australasian Institute of Digital Health to be officially launched on 24 February 2020. Australasia’s leading organisations for health informatics and digital health were formed 25+ years ago in a different world. Imagine the challenges, the foresight and forward thinking required then to [...]

HISA and ACHI vote ‘Yes’ to unite and form a new organisation
Making history! HISA and ACHI members and Fellows have voted ‘Yes’ to unite and form a new peak body for digital health. The proposal to merge and form a new organisation has been passed by a majority vote with more than 89% of members and Fellows voting for the merger. The Australasian Institute of Digital [...]
Voting info for HISA members
The Board of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and the Council of the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) are pleased to invite you to vote on the proposal to combine and form a new peak body for digital health and health informatics - the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. An Extraordinary Meeting for HISA members will be held on: Tuesday 17 December at [...]

New whitepaper: What is digital health?
Digital health represents a paradigm shift and the implications for healthcare are profound, according to a whitepaper released today by HISA and the Digital Health Workforce Academy. The whitepaper What is digital health and why does it matter? was written by HISA Board Member David Rowlands, who authored the Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) Program [...]
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[ BLOG ] : Artificial intelligence and precision healthcare
Peter Williams Healthcare Innovator Oracle APAC Precision Medicine Community of Practice Steering Committee Member The HISA Precision Medicine Community of Practice sees precision medicine as not constrained to developments associated with the advance of genomics, as important as they are, but rather considers a broader spectrum where the data driving individualised care can include clinical, [...]

Meet Natalie Turner – registered nurse and EMR educator at SA Health
Natalie Turner has had a successful career working with SA Health, and more recently, on the state-wide EMR project as an educator. Natalie also works with the HISA South Australian state branch committee. We had a chat with her to talk about her experience in nursing informatics and the upcoming International Nursing Informatics Congress (NI) [...]

Vale Joan Edgecumbe
Joan Edgecumbe was one of HISA’s founding members and over HISA’s 25-year history she occupied the role of Executive Officer, committee member and Board member, until her retirement in 2011. She worked at The Royal Women’s Hospital Melbourne for over 40 years, and until her retirement in 2015, she was part of the eHealth Education [...]

#HDA19 photo gallery
Check out our photos from the Health Data Analytics conference! Click the photo to expand it. If you see yourself in any, feel free to grab it, share it around on your socials and spread the word.

Two new reports from the Innovating Health series
HISA produces the Innovating Health thought leadership series in partnership with Accenture. We bring together individuals working in healthcare from across the public and private sector to consider compelling topics. If you or a fellow senior manager or executive would like to be involved please email us. Aged care cast study: Digital platforms supporting private [...]
