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Message from the CEO: The international spotlight was on digital health workforce among other key issues when the Institute helped facilitate the World Health Organization’s “Moving Digital Health Policy into Action” event. More than 100 participants from 20+ countries joined online, bringing widely diverse views to this incredibly valuable forum. The Institute architected and facilitated the workforce stream “Digital health workforce competency framework”, which I co-chaired with Salim Azzabi Zouraq, from Digital Health and Innovation at WHO.

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

Realising the full potential of genomics to personalise healthcare: Australia’s Industry Genomics Network Alliance is advocating for genetic and genomic technologies to be addressed when this year’s Health Technology Assessment (HTA) reform process gets underway.

InGeNA has published a whitepaper Future directions for health technology assessment in Australia, providing a unified industry viewpoint on how the reform of the HTA system could substantially improve and enhance access to genomic technology for health consumers. The paper is available to download on the InGeNA website.

Nursing and midwifery on Artificial intelligence (AI): AI is a relatively new discipline, beginning in the 1950s but gaining much attention in the last decade, says nursing informatics leader Cedar Yin.

In this article, he says nurses and midwives should have more engagement with the development lifecycle of AI technology. 

CHIA in step with the evolving world of digital health: Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) credentials are designed to keep pace with the continually evolving delivery of healthcare in the digital era.

Health practitioners enrolling to be certified from this month can draw on newly updated and published resources and will be tested with a revised examination reflecting advances in digital health.

The CHIA examination was updated to align to the 2nd edition of the Australian Health Informatics Competency Framework (AHICF), comprising 53 health informatics competencies across six domains of expertise.

"Obtaining CHIA was fundamental following relocation from the UK and to support my understanding of a new healthcare system. The CPD requirement also ensures that I am always looking for opportunities to keep my knowledge up to date and of course, network with other health informaticians!"

Opening by Macquarie University’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Bruce Dowton and with keynote speaker, Professor Michael Kidd AM.

CHI is part of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University.

Researching the use of AI in healthcare: The University of Sydney and Monash Partners Health Science Centre are conducting research into the implementation of Artificial Intelligence applications in Australian healthcare organisations. The project has a particular focus on tools using Natural Language Processing as part of the application.

CIOs (or their equivalent), health professionals, researchers, informaticians, software engineers, business analysts and others are sought to participate in research interviews to understand the role of these applications in healthcare delivery. Expressions of interest to be made to the University of Sydney. For more information please email Anna Janssen.

Check out the program and book your ticket at the early bird rate!

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DHL masterclass | The Quintuple Aim of Precision Health

📅 TOMORROW Wednesday 22 June

WA branch | National primary healthcare data analytics

📅 Thursday 30 June

NSW branch | Healthcare in the cloud: Just pie in the sky?

📅 Tuesday 12 July

InGeNA webinar | Acute care genomics: Rapid rare disease diagnosis on a national scale

📅 Wednesday 13 July

Welcome to the Institute | New members event

📅 Wednesday 20 July

DHL Webinar | What is service design and why does it matter?

📅 Wednesday 27 July

Digital Health Institute Summit Perth

📅 Friday 5 August

Early bird rates are currently available, so register now to save $100 - but be quick, our early bird sale ends Friday June 10 2022.

Global meeting on "Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge" (MCBK) 

Mark your calendars for this free virtual meeting!

A registration link and call for “lightning talk” proposals will follow soon. Session times and rapidly released recordings will allow all participants, wherever they are in the world, to experience the entire meeting.

MCBK was formed in July 2018 when a group of health informaticians formally launched a movement to "Mobilize Computable Biomedical Knowledge" (MCBK). The 150 individuals who gathered at the U.S. National Library of Medicine were dedicated to the principle that health improvement at scale required an ecosystem of machine-executable knowledge that was findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable, and trusted. The foundations of MCBK were expressed in a "Manifesto" developed by consensus at this meeting.

Health informatics short course 

Flinders University will conduct a health informatics short course from 11-15 July 2022 in Adelaide at the Victoria Square Campus. 

20 CHIA (Certified Health Informatician Australasia) CPD points eligibility has been recognised for this short course. 

Bringing together an international and national audience Medinfo 2023 is your opportunity in 2023 to network, share, and highlight the latest achievements, advancements, and leading-edge research and innovation in digital health and health informatics.

We have challenged ourselves with an event theme on transformational change to the health sector, 'THE FUTURE IS ACCESSIBLE' where we aim to drive the many opportunities within digital health to reality.

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