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The Institute is fulfilling a long-held ambition to take digital health learning out to health professionals on a large scale. We have taken a great leap forward in the past few months and started working on a series of professional development modules in digital health. It’s critical to the Institute’s workforce advancement strategy to have this building block - “digital health 101” - in place. We are already accrediting individual professionals in digital health through CHIA and we have a course to educate senior Board members and executives on what they need to know in their own businesses. But it is imperative we can take digital health out to every healthcare professional, whatever level of knowledge they have as a starting point. An introductory course, shaped to deliver what Australasian health professions have been asking us for, will add enormous value to our community this year. With the pandemic heightening public awareness of telehealth, and health services under increasing pressure to deliver more digitally, the Institute is well qualified to support professional development.

Dr Louise Schaper PhD FAIDH FIAHSI CHIA BSc(OT)Hons

PhD scholarship in the Health Informatics domain: Both local and international students with strong interests in computer security, encryption technologies, natural language processing and machine learning are invited to apply for a collaborative research project on “Securing and anonymising medical records for natural language processing and clinical classification”.

Forum for Fellows: Stay connected! AIDH Fellows and Associate Fellows can now collaborate on a private forum within the membership portal. You can discover your peers, start a conversation and share insights. All members have access to various forums on SocialLink. Here’s a quick refresher on how to get started.

Capital Health Network Needs Assessment Survey: A community health needs assessment is held every three years to understand the health and service needs of the Canberra region.

This is also the basis of the future health services that CHN can commission for the community.

Please support Capital Health by using the Provider Survey or the Consumer Survey.

Roadmap for AI in healthcare: The Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Australia (AAAiH) is developing a national AI roadmap for healthcare. Eight priority areas have been identified and a national survey launched to seek feedback. Results will help to guide the implementation of AI in Australia in a way that is scalable, sustainable, and has positive impacts on clinical and economic outcomes for Australia.

Full content will be available on-demand until February 2022 giving you plenty of time to watch the videos.

CHIA organisation group showcase: CEIH

The Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH) have supported multiple groups of candidates to undertake CHIA certification since May 2020 and have sponsored over 125 people till date.

We caught up with Tina Hardin, Executive Director of Clinical Informatics at CEIH to get her take on the importance of digital health certification for the South Australian health community.

The Digital Health Institute Summit will be held in Melbourne and livestreamed online on 18-19 October.

The Virtual Showcase on 28-29 October features additional program content and is included with all registration types.

The University of Sydney and the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District are collaborating on a project to develop digital health monitoring for pregnant women. Health professionals are invited to participate in a survey that will help design a pregnancy app to improve how pregnant women monitor their health and assist communication with their chosen healthcare provider. You can find the short survey here.

Nursing.Midwifery community talks genomics: This month's theme is focusing on the impact of genomics on nursing and midwifery. The Garvan Global Genomics Report back in 2018 claimed that genomics was disrupting the healthcare sector through affordable, rapid DNA sequencing, even causing a revolution in medicine and healthcare globally. The CoP has released an editorial on the role of the nurse and midwife in this space.

Gillian Mason joined us at Summit 2020 to share her views on accessing healthcare during the pandemic after the system had undergone “10 years of telehealth transformation in a week”. Registrations are now open for Summit 2021.

HealthData21: Couldn’t attend the conference live? Full conference content is available on the event platform until 15 September. Simply use your delegate login ID and pin to start watching!

Join other CHIAs on LinkedIn: The CHIA Alumni group is open to all CHIAs. You can ask questions, offer advice and share your CHIA journey with others like you.

Members can also watch them on demand on Digital Health TV!