Media statements

Media statements

HISA is pleased to provide expert commentary for journalists on a range of digital health topics including digital health trends, telemedicine, entrepreneurship, data protection, privacy, electronic records, big data, participatory healthcare, personalised medicine and more.

To seek comment, please contact the HISA Communications Manager.

Media releases

HISA and ACHI to merge and form the Australasian Institute of Digital Health 19 December 2019

Whitepaper released: What is digital health and why does it matter?

HISA launches first allied health informatics paper 12 August 2019

HISA and ACHI announce consultation to consider new organisation proposal 30 April 2019

Peak bodies lend support to MyHR July 30 2018

HIC 2018 celebrates 25 years July 3, 2018

Australian Digital Health Executives Network (DHEN) June 26, 2018

HIC 2017 in Brisbane 6-9 August

Australians invited to Texas Medical Centre accelerator

Digital health peaks statement at HIC August 5, 2015

PCEHR/HI Support from HISA and HIMAA Survey July 6, 2015

New health information protection Guidelines released by HISA April 4, 2015

E-health leadership education at HITWA 2014 September 11, 2014

Participatory health conference a first for HIC July 31, 2014

ePatient Dave July 31, 2014

HISA launches the 2014 Health Apps Challenge July 31, 2014

HIC 2014 program is launched May 23, 2014

Budget 2014: Opportunity to get PCEHR right, says HISA May 14, 2014

Health informatics is crucial to reducing costs for mental health 2014

New Recognition of Health Informatics Skills in Healthcare Workforce 2014

Invest in education to prevent billions of unnecessary waste 2014

HISA news updates

HISA news can be viewed HERE

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The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) has merged with the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) to form the Australasian Institute of Digital Health on Monday 24 February 2020. This site will no longer be updated and will be preserved for archive. Visit us at the Institute! www.digitalhealth.org.au.

Partnerships and Accounts Manager

Partnerships and Accounts Manager

HISA is in the market for an Partnerships and Accounts Manager. If you care about working for an organisation that cares, with a significant growth strategy and an ‘all hands on deck’ approach then this role may be for you. We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Partnerships and Accounts Manager extraordinaire to join our ever-growing team. We are a not for profit company that provides leadership, advocacy and support for Australia’s digital health community.

As the peak professional body, we provide a national focus for digital health and opportunities for learning, professional development and networking to the diverse and growing community at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Our partners love us, so you will have an existing portfolio of loyal partners to continue building a relationship with and with the world turning their heads to digital health the opportunity for growing the portfolio is endless!

Remuneration

To be negotiated in line with experience. Please indicate your salary expectations when applying.

Key Accountabilities

Sponsorship and Exhibition Sales – Proactively works to reach and exceed budgeted sponsorship and exhibition targets for HISA events.

Account Management – Develop and maintain strategic, creative and high-value relationships with existing and potential clients.

Strategic Planning and Administration – Plans and executes sales strategies; ensures accurate and up to date record keeping and reporting.

Human resources and staff management – managing all aspects of human resources and monitor and co-ordinate staff reporting requirements, ensuring appropriate and high level of communication within the team.

And the practical experience and skills required

5 years demonstrated experience in sponsorship and exhibition sales

Experience working in the not for profit sector and health sectors is desirable

Ability to engage with team members and clients to build strong relationships

Ability to present to clients effectively

Ability to make decisions and solve problems and can think on one’s feet

Able to manage a varied and challenging workload and meet deadlines

Ability to show initiative, manage own time and work unsupervised/li>

Has a sense of humour!

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Conference and Events Manager

To succeed, you will have experience managing large scale 500+ delegate size conferences. Our team manages over 50 events a year – from conferences to webinars, breakfasts and branch events. We are already in the motions of planning a range of our events so we need you to hit the ground running and enjoy the challenge!

You will be responsible for the end-to-end event management of national conferences while taking ownership of certain areas on the international conferences. There will come a time where we will need your hands-on attitude to assist with smaller events too.

The role is not suitable for those with minimal experience or new graduates. Conferences need to be in your blood, and you should have a few battle scars.

Remuneration

To be negotiated in line with experience. Please indicate your salary expectations when applying.

You will love this role for the following reasons

You will be working with a fantastic group of driven, committed, experienced and passionate people.

Work in an innovative and agile environment.

You will contribute to building a high-performance Events team creating memorable events that foster relationships you can be proud of.

You will love the “all hands-on deck” dedication and attitude amongst your colleagues to deliver high-quality conferences and events.

You will have demonstrated ability in

Managing events and teams

Managing registrations, call for abstracts and program building

High attention to detail, sound decision making and problem solving whilst thinking on one’s feet

Managing competing priorities, alongside a varied and challenging workload to effectively to meet deadlines.

Engaging with team members and clients to build strong relationships

Being a confident, approachable and level-headed communicator with good judgement who maintains confidentiality to handle issues of a sensitive nature with tact and discretion

Maintaining a high degree of personal energy, proactive, flexible and committed approach in a small team where no task is too big or too small – you will have to ‘get your hands dirty’

Outstanding interpersonal skills, including a proven record in liaising and communicating with a wide variety of stakeholders both internally across the business and externally representing the organisation in a professional manner

Advanced proficiency with MS Office suite (v.10)

Using EventsAir and cloud-based software (preferred)

Availability to travel interstate for your events and attend local events as needed (occasionally)

Has a sense of humour!

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Marketing and Engagement Manager

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative Marketing Manager extraordinaire to join our ever-growing team. We are a not for profit company that provides leadership, advocacy and support for Australia’s digital health community. As the peak industry body, we provide a national focus for digital health and opportunities for learning, professional development and networking to the diverse and growing community at the intersection of healthcare and technology. With the world turning their heads to digital health the opportunity for building and running successful marketing campaigns is immense!

Remuneration

To be negotiated in line with experience. Please indicate your salary expectations when applying.

Key Accountabilities

Event and Conference Marketing – Responsible for the development and execution of strong marketing campaigns for all HISA events and conferences.

Production / Project Management – Provide managerial oversight to a small team. Liaise with internal and external stakeholders including suppliers to ensure projects are completed on time, within budget and scope.

Research – Through a mixture of desktop research and speaking with our community, you will lead the development of our annual events program, ensuring topics and speakers are cutting edge, relevant and always high quality.

Strategic Planning and Reporting – Plans and executes marketing strategies; ensures accurate and up to date record keeping and reporting. Monitors the success of marketing and engagement campaigns and initiatives and adjusts accordingly.

And the practical experience and skills required

5 years demonstrated experience in marketing

Experience working in the not for profit sector and health sectors is desirable

Ability to engage with team members to build strong relationships

Ability to develop and execute marketing campaigns

Ability to make decisions and solve problems and can think on one’s feet

Able to manage a varied and challenging workload and meet deadlines

Ability to show initiative, manage own time and work unsupervised

Has a sense of humour!

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Workforce and Professional Advancement Director

HISA’s Workforce and Professional Advancement (WPA) Division exists to build the capacity of Australian health workforces to confidently and competently use and drive uptake of connected digital services. We aim to equip Australian health workforces for their participation in health’s digital future. We do this through working collaboratively with the sector and harnessing the expertise of committed volunteers and subject matter experts to define digital health competency standards; develop professional individual accreditation programs; provide links between providers and users of training and education; and supporting organisations to build digital health capacity.

Our vision is for all healthcare professionals to have access to resources that will support them in confident and efficient use of digital services, for health sector leaders will have access to best-practice support networks, and digital health workforce and professional advancement will be embedded as “business as usual” throughout the health sector.

Remuneration

To be negotiated in line with experience. Please indicate your salary expectations when applying.

Key Accountabilities

Delivery of a 12-month funded project focused on developing resources to support digital health capacity building across Australia’s nursing and midwifery workforce

Management and delivery of professional individual accreditation programs

Support the creation and management of WPA resources

Providing direction and oversight of several formalised professional networks across the sector

Developing strategic partnerships and alliances

To succeed, you will have

Strong relationships in the digital health sector

A high degree of sector-specific knowledge

Experience in managing and delivering projects within diverse stakeholder communities

Experience in workforce development / professional development or related roles

Most importantly, you will have a real passion for being at the forefront of helping to build digital health capability across our health workforce

Being clinically trained and a current Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) is desirable

You also must be a ‘get things done’ multi-tasking extraordinaire person. This is your opportunity to shine!

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All Organisational Members Receive:

✔ Opportunities to network/contact other members

✔ Discount on premium job postings and access to talent pool

✔ FREE attendance to State Branch events

✔ Exclusive tickets to SIG events

✔ Access to members-only content

✔ Member newsletter

✔ Access to members-only webinars

✔ Discounts to the HISA Bookshop (save up to 40%)

✔ FREE subscriptions to Pulse+IT Magazine valued at $99/nominee

✔ Receive special offers

✔ Discounts to HISA conferences

✔ Nominate and vote for HISA National Board/State Committee x1

✔ Personal invitations to attend State branch events

✔ Development opportunities for your team

✔ Discount off CHIA (certification) valued at $115/nominee

✔ Discount off CHIA Text Book valued at $90/nominee

PLUS:

Tier 3 – has 3 nominated seats

Tier 6 – has 6 nominated seats

Tier 11 – has 11 nominated seats

Tier 21 – has 21 nominated seats

Academic* – has unlimited nominated seats

* ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP eligibility criteria: AIM is for tertiary institutions that have health informatics programs or courses (teaching and/or research) – does not need to be specifically named HI course, e.g. public health, health information management etc. is ok. Provides HISA memberships for all faculty and higher degree by research students (Masters by Research or PhD students).

Details

This position statement has been developed to recognise the pivotal role of nurses in the widespread implementation and adoption of digital health technologies throughout the healthcare sector for the primary purpose of improving safety and quality of patient care. The successful planning, implementation, management and sustainability of such technologies cannot be achieved without the unique contribution of nurses.

Details

The competencies set the minimum requirements in terms of skills, knowledge, understandings and capabilities that will enable a candidate to perform in a professional environment. The competencies serve to define what health informatics professionals know and do. This framework can also be used as a set of guidelines for recruiting purposes, definitions of career pathways, or the design of educational and training activities.

They provide the context in which the questions for the CHIA exam have been developed.

Details

The Guidelines serves as a resource to assist the health sector as a whole, and especially healthcare professionals, to protect the personal health information (PHI) they require to do their work, and to meet their role and responsibilities.

They describe key security and privacy issues faced by healthcare organisations and offers guidance for responding to these issues. It is not an all-encompassing guide on the protection of PHI; rather, it is designed as a stepping stone to help healthcare organisations address common concerns, avoid confusion, and prevent misunderstandings. http://healthprivacy.org.au/

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Will your digital health implementation be a success story? How will you make sure your digital health implementation is safe?

The Australian eSafety Professional Practice Guidelines are being released for trial implementation initially, as it is important to acknowledge that patient safety in relation to digital health systems is a topic that continues to evolve, with a growing evidence base and emerging best practices being applied in a number of countries and jurisdictions. The guidelines are the first publication specifically tailored for the Australian digital health sector.

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PDF Copy: Packaged ZIP file, includes 3 PDF files

Details

A comprehensive body of knowledge that focuses explicitly on the needs of practitioners in the field of health informatics in Australia. It also covers the competencies tested in the CHIA exam; a valuable asset for CHIA candidates.

The Practitioner’s Guide has also been developed with other purposes in mind, including orientation for professionals such as clinicians or ICT professionals new to health informatics and updates for health informaticians wishing to maintain the currency of their knowledge, irrespective of certification.

If you purchased the first edition of A Practitioner’s Guide to Health Informatics in Australia, please email [email protected] for a special price to purchase the second edition.

Details

In the issue of the Medical Journal of Australia published just prior to the November 2007 election, a number of commentators including the Federal Minister and Shadow Minister reflected on the Australian health system and their plans for its future. The members of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) believe there is a yawning gap in this analysis both in terms of the size of the problem and how it might be fixed.

Author: HISA
Year: 2007
Pages: 73

Details

The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) made a proposal to the E-Health Branch of the Australian Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) that a review of the health informatics workforce be undertaken and were subsequently contracted to „prepare a background discussion paper which sets out the scope and structure of the health informatics workforce and draw together a summary of the key issues, gaps and opportunities for further work to be undertaken on this issue’. This then is a scoping study.

Details

In the issue of the Medical Journal of Australia published just prior to the November 2007 election, a number of commentators including the Federal Minister and Shadow Minister reflected on the Australian health system and their plans for its future. The members of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) believe there is a yawning gap in this analysis both in terms of the size of the problem and how it might be fixed.

All Individual Members Receive:

✔ Special offers

✔ Opportunities to network/contact other members

✔ Access to member only job postings

✔ FREE attendance to state branch events

✔ Exclusive tickets to SIG events

✔ Access to member only content

✔ Member newsletter

✔ Access to members-only webinars

✔ Discounts to HISA bookshop – save up to 40%

Ordinary/MACHI*/FACHI* members also receive:

✔ FREE subscription to Pulse+IT Magazine valued at $99

✔ Discounts to HISA conferences

✔ Nominate and vote for HISA State Committee

✔ Nominate and vote for HISA National Board

✔ Discount off CHIA (certification) valued at $115

✔ Discount off CHIA Text Book valued at $90

Concession** members also receive:

✔ FREE subscription to Pulse+IT Magazine valued at $99

✔ Discounts to HISA conferences

✔ Students may nominate and vote for HISA State Committee

Affiliates for new members only
Affiliate membership is an introductory membership available only for new members to HISA and not available for existing or previous HISA members. Affiliate membership is a great way to get to know the organisation with a limited number of benefits. This membership is available for a maximum of 2 years for an individual.

* HISA + ACHI COMBINED MEMBERSHIP. Membership is assessed by ACHI.
MACHI – granted to individuals who have a recognised level of achievement within the health informatics discipline. Post-nominals of MACHI are awarded. Must complete MACHI application form.
FACHI – granted to individuals who have made a substantial achievement and contribution within the health informatics discipline. Post-nominals of FACHI are awarded. Must complete FACHI application form.

** CONCESSION MEMBERSHIP.
Student: Must provide proof of full-time enrolment.
Concession: Members must hold a government health care card and provide a valid copy upon registration.
Retired: Retirees who have been ordinary members for the past 2 years. No voting rights & cannot be elected onto the board or committees.