Primary healthcare the frontline: Stronger primary healthcare was singled out as important to mental health and preventive health in Australia’s long term National Health Plan. The national plan is focused on making the health system better at preventing disease and promoting health, and making healthcare more affordable and more accessible to everyone wherever they live and whoever they are. The Primary Health Reform Steering Group has developed a discussion paper to gather feedback on their recommendations for the Primary Health Care 10 Year Plan and these are available for comment until 27 July. The Institute wants to hear your views on the recommendations and is compiling a coordinated response with a digital health focus. Primary healthcare is integral to everything we are working for in digital health and your input would be greatly appreciated. You can complete our quick survey here.
Please remember to complete the Global HIDDIN Census, which is held every three years and is currently live until 30 June, 2021. The aim is to quantify and qualify the global HIDDIN (Health Informatics, Digital, Data, Information, kNowledge) workforce. Data from the census can be used to advocate for building capability and capacity in the workforce, creating more of and new roles as the health sector continues its digital journey, getting more people into jobs and providing recognition for the specialist digital health skills they have. Please complete the census – it’s important we all do.
Dr Louise Schaper PhD FAIDH FIAHSI CHIA BSc(OT)Hons
CEO, Australasian Institute of Digital Health
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2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Health award initiative
Nominations are open for Telstra Health’s inaugural 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Health award. It will recognise and celebrate 25 women in digital health for their achievements – whether that is mentoring, medical research, contributing to technology development, improving health outcomes using digital health or introducing a new digital process for the delivery of health and aged care. Judges are Professor Christine Bennett AO, Director, Telstra Health Board; Jane Halton AO PSM, Chair, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Co-Chair, COVAX initiative; Michael Walsh, Chair, Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre and the CEO of AIDH Dr Louise Schaper.
Nominations close on 16 July.
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Workforce census ends 30 June: The Global HIDDIN Census, held every three years is currently live until 30 June, 2021. It aims to quantify and qualify the global HIDDIN (Health Informatics, Digital, Data, Information, kNowledge) workforce, delineate and count the workforce, consider the future configuration, identify shortfalls, and identify current health information training and career pathways. It covers functions such as analysing, designing, developing, implementing, maintaining, managing, operating, evaluating, or governing the data, technology, systems, and services for the health sector.
We need you to take part in this important, easy survey and to share it with your networks. Please take the time to be counted.
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Women's leadership scholarships: Scholarships are now available through Women & Leadership Australia to encourage more women to step into leadership roles and to support the further development of current women leaders in the health sector. Scholarships of $1,000-$5,000 will support participation in one of three leadership development courses designed for emerging through to senior leaders. Apply by 10 September 2021. |
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Kathleen Gray honoured: Congratulations to Fellow of the Institute, Professor of Health Informatics Kathleen Gray, from the University of Melbourne, who was honoured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021 with a Medal in the General Division (OAM) for service to medicine through digital health education. |
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Interested in genomics? Stay connected by opting in to the InGeNA email update. |
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HealthData21 is on TODAY: Join us for the final day of #HealthData21 virtual conference. Today’s theme “ Integrating genomics into care” is presented by InGeNA, the Industry Genomics Network Alliance. Registered attendees are also invited to meet today’s speakers at #ZoomBar, our virtual networking hour, on Friday 25 June at 3:00pm AEST. |
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With over 230 speakers from around the globe joining us for NI 2021, the conference is shaping up to be the nursing informatics event to be at this year. Each program day will focus on an important nursing informatics or digital health theme and present to you the latest developments within nursing and midwifery in the digital era. Early bird registration ends on 1 July. |
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Early bird registration ends on 29 July and there are discounts for members, students and groups of 3 or more delegates from the same organisation.
Partnership opportunities are still available - contact Chris to find out more about how you can make the most out of #DHIS2021. |
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CHIA for organisations: The CHIA certification program can accredit dozens of employees at a time and lift the digital health profile of the company workforce. If your organisation is interested in recognition for your expert digital health employees, contact us to discuss next steps. |
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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.
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Members love DHTV: Our video channel is a big hit! Institute members can access outstanding quality, informative videos online from our health informatics, digital health, telehealth and health data analytics conferences and other events. We are adding to Digital Health TV regularly so check back for new material by logging in with your member ID here. If you are not yet an Institute Member or Fellow, visit the membership page for details on how to join the digital health movement.
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Study health informatics in SA: The 2021 Health Informatics Short Course at Flinders University has been rescheduled and is being conducted from 12-16 July in Adelaide (at the Victoria Square Campus). There are 20 CHIA points attached to the course which is run by Institute member Mark Brommeyer.
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We're in the Push for Better: The Push For Better Foundation raises awareness and engages people in mental health through connection, education and health and wellbeing. In June, some of us at the Institute are getting active and helping #pushforbetter mental health in Australia. Our team members include Carla Carroll, Chris Jordon, Desiree McNeile McCormick, Greg Moran, Louise Schaper and Val Issa. Go team! |
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Welcome organisational members |
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Webinar: Rethinking the ethical and effective use of genomic data
Dr Natalie Thorne and Jan Mumford joined us to share two non-industry perspectives - patient advocacy and research – on the challenges, attitudes and research findings around harnessing and sharing health data for clinical and research use. This webinar was presented by InGeNA, the Industry Genomics Network Alliance.
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Wednesday 23 June 2021
4:00 - 5:30pm AEST
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Thursday 24 June 2021
5:30 - 6:30pm AEST
The RPA Virtual Hospital, known as rpavirtual, was launched in early 2020 as an alternate, sustainable solution to the increasing demand for healthcare in Sydney. It offers a new model of care which combines Sydney LHD’s integrated hospital and community care with the latest digital solutions. rpavirtual acts as a bridge between hospital specialist services and patient care in the community.
This event is proudly supported by EY. |
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Tuesday 29 June 2021
10:00 - 11:00am AEST
Welcome to the Fellows Lounge, your exclusive room to connect with other Fellows who share your passion and dedication for digital health. Fellowship of the Institute recognises your outstanding professional accomplishment in digital health and health informatics, you are our thought leaders, our experts and our trusted advisors! You all come from various backgrounds in digital health and this informal networking event allows you to keep learning, talk about challenges you are currently facing, seek support, dive into some hot topic discussions or just have a virtual coffee/lunch or drink with your peers.
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Tuesday 29 June 2021
12:00 - 1:00pm AEST
Join us for this webinar where we will discuss the value of digital health, how to drive its adoption, and the strategies and lessons learnt when moving towards virtual care, and data and systems integration.
This discussion will focus on the priorities, challenges, and approaches to digital health and how these could be applied across all sectors including aged and home care. We will review the recent report from the Royal Commission into Aged Care which highlighted several key gaps in service delivery and connecting care which are mirrored across healthcare generally.
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