Webinar: Put knowledge into practice, says Friedman
HISA members heard
Dr Charles Friedman from the US live on webinar this week with a talk on the concept of the Knowledge Grid. Dr Friedman, the Professor of Information and Public Health at the University of Michigan, described linking "data to knowledge" and "knowledge to practice". He said current biomedical knowledge had to be made computable. There needed to be an open, scalable biomedical knowledge ecosystem and a way to connect knowledge (best evidence) to practice, he said. To hear the full story visit the HISA
webinar page and download the recording. HISA thanks our Board Vice Chair Karen Gibson who hosted the session.
Innovating Health: Blending health and human services
The fourth Innovating Health roundtable was held in Canberra on 1 September on the topic Blending of Health and Human Services led by innovation economist Jason Potts, Professor School of Economics, RMIT. The session posed questions on data blending and merging across health and social welfare and emerging technologies, enabling distributed data sharing and transactions such as Blockchain. Proudly delivered in partnership with Accenture the Innovating Health Series pushes innovation to the fore and seeks to Create A New Conversation. See Series Highlights and download the full report from the roundtable HERE.
Opportunity for a clinical leadership role
The Clinical Informatics Community of Practice (CoP) leadership committee is calling for nominations for three vacant leadership roles - a nurse, pharmacist and a clinician working in pathology/radiology. Chair Dr Mark Santamaria said the group held its inaugural meeting at HIC 2016 following a year of groundwork by the committee. If you are interested in playing an active leadership role in the community and shaping the future of clinical informatics in Australia, please nominate on this
form.
Would you like to make your pitch at HITWA?
We are looking for digital health start-ups to make a pitch at upcoming HITWA during the health entrepreneurship and innovation session. Please complete an Expression of Interest by 23 September. Read the criteria and full details
HERE.
Workshop: Critical role of biobanks in research
Prof Matthew Bellgard and Dr Kathryn Napier, from the Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University, will present a HITWA workshop on clinical registries and biobanks. Prof Bellgard is Foundation Chair of Bioinformatics and Director of the Centre. Don't miss this opportunity to hear about successful deployments of global registries and biobanks. HITWA takes place in Perth on 4 November REGISTER today.
Looking for a new role?
HISA has a well credentialed, highly qualified and capable membership offering potential employers a wealth of talent. Members are encouraged to check out the career database and view vacancies. Current jobs include clinical application specialists and health statistician roles. You can submit vacancies HERE.
Don't miss our Health Data Analytics 2016 masterclass:
The SMART on FHIR: Writing applications for your clinical data
Presented by Prof Mark Braunstein Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) @mbraunstein
Learn about newHL7 standardFHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) with expert Prof Mark Braunstein, author of Contemporary Health Informatics and the non-technical guide Health Informatics in the Cloud. A leader in health informatics, Prof Braunstein developed one of the first ambulatory electronic medical record systems at a pioneering patient-centered clinic in South Carolina. Health Data Analytics 2016 has many ground-breaking scientific, industry and clinical papers. View the excerpts HERE and REGISTER today.
We are looking for digital health start-ups to make a pitch at upcoming HITWA during the health entrepreneurship and innovation session. Please complete an Expression of Interest by 23 September. Read the criteria and full details
Prof Matthew Bellgard and Dr Kathryn Napier, from the Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University, will present a HITWA workshop on clinical registries and biobanks. Prof Bellgard is Foundation Chair of Bioinformatics and Director of the Centre. Don't miss this opportunity to hear about successful deployments of global registries and biobanks. HITWA takes place in Perth on 4 November 
