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Patient-centred, virtual and innovative: Healthcare post COVID-19
Patient-centred, virtual and innovative: Healthcare post COVID-19 Virtual healthcare in the future needs patient-centred models, equitable access, regulatory oversight and a digitally capable workforce if we are to build on advances made in telehealth...
Loss of a pioneer in medical informatics: Dr Octo Barnett
Loss of a pioneer in medical informatics: Dr Octo Barnett AIDH was saddened to hear of the death of Dr Octo Barnett who died on June 30 at the age of 89. Dr Barnett was the founder and former Senior Scientific Director of the Laboratory of Computer Science...
Reinventing healthcare in a post-COVID world
Reinventing healthcare in a post-COVID world There is no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the most significant disruption to healthcare, at a global level, we have ever seen. Health systems across the world have been forced to rapidly respond to what...
National effort on post-COVID response
National effort on post-COVID response As the health system settles into a new rhythm and moves beyond the pandemic curve, many of us are asking how can we be better prepared for the future? How can we learn from the past six months and be ready for the...
Make the most of your professional development in 2020 with a UTAS scholarship
The University of Tasmania is offering a range of courses available from July 2020 to utilise the UTAS scholarship available to AIDH members and study online. AIDH Fellows and Members have access to the following postgraduate scholarship: 50% HECs fee waiver
EOI for Digital Health and Health Informatics Subject Matter Experts
AIDH student member Tafheem Wani, from the University of Melbourne, is one of the researchers undertaking an online survey among heads of IT/IT security in hospitals to explore Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) security practices in Australian hospitals.
PhD scholarship in Digital Health
PhD scholarship in Digital Health PhD scholarship in Digital Health: Want to explore how digital technologies can help patients and consumers? Come and study Digital Health through Macquarie University’s PhD Scholarship - Digital health for patients and...
Using the COVID-19 tracer app
Using the COVID-19 tracer app The Institute, in association with the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA), have lent their support to the Australian Government’s contact tracing app to aid national efforts to manage and...
Survey request on security practices
AIDH student member Tafheem Wani, from the University of Melbourne, is one of the researchers undertaking an online survey among heads of IT/IT security in hospitals to explore Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) security practices in Australian hospitals.
The launch of the COVID-19 tracer App
The launch of the COVID-19 tracer App COVID-19 tracer app launched: Institute develops principles on privacy and data use The launch of the COVID-19 tracer App on Sunday evening has generated widespread discussion and some public concern...
FROM THE FRONTLINES celebrates telehealth and virtual care innovation during COVID-19
From the Frontlines The Institute held its first virtual conference From the Frontlines last Friday (24 April) putting the spotlight on virtual care and telehealth innovation and adaptation emerging from frontline workers, healthcare...
AIDH Fellowship check-in
Welcome to new Fellows Fellowship recognises your outstanding professional accomplishment in digital health and health informatics. You hold the highest membership level of the Institute, acknowledging your education, experience and the impact...
#digitalhealth Institute launches 24-02-20
News #digitalhealth Institute launches 24-02-20 The Australasian Institute of Digital Health is open for business! We were pleased to welcome friends old and new, members and Fellows to the Institute headquarters in South Melbourne on launch day 24...
Planned telehealth expansion welcome, but must look beyond doctors alone
News Planned telehealth expansion welcome, but must look beyond doctors alone 23 March 2020 Four leading health organisations have urged the Government to expand telehealth to nurses to reduce COVID-19 infection risks and support care of chronically ill people at...
Institute defers conference program in response to COVID-19
News The Australasian Institute of Digital Health is deferring its conference programme until later in the year as a response to COVID-19 Australia’s largest digital health and health informatics scientific conference HIC 2020 will be the pinnacle of a combined...
Meet the Chair of the Institute Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh became independent Chair of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health on its formation in February 2020. A familiar face to many in the digital health movement, Michael was Director-General of Queensland Health from July 2015 to September...
Could you be a Fellow of the Institute?
Experienced health informatics or digital health professionals may wish to apply for Fellowship status. When you become a Fellow of the Institute, you join Australasia’s highest credentialled health informaticians and use the post-nominals FAIDH....
Members love Digital Health TV
♥ 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...
Data Divide
Blog Data Divide By Dr Mark Santamaria Part of the Clinical Informatics Community of Practice Steering Committee For many years we have been talking about the ‘digital divide’ in healthcare, but the implementation of any digital solution does not itself improve...
Dr Martin Knapp divulges
Community Chats Dr Martin Knapp divulges By Dr Martin Knapp, Nephrologist What are you currently doing? Writing, reading, relaxing….. and speaking when I get a chance! When did you realise technology would be useful in healthcare? It was all about the data, and...
A brief window to intervene and shape the future of health IT in Australia… it’s closing soon
Blog A brief window to intervene and shape the future of health IT in Australia... it’s closing soon By Prof Chris Bain Part of the UX Network Community of Practice Steering Committee The issue of fit between the work and needs of clinicians (medical, nursing and...
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[ BLOG ] : Healthcare Executives and Employees Are Hacker Targets – 5 Steps to Protect Them
Blog Healthcare executives and employees are hacker targets – 5 steps to protect them By Tom Crampton Part of the Cybersecurity Community of Practice Steering Committee Cyber criminal activity continues to spread rapidly across Australian businesses of all sizes and...
A glimpse of NIA Conferences through the ages
Let's take a glimpse NIA Conferences through the ages 2019 2018 2016 The NIA conference takes place each year on the Sunday before the HIC Conference.
Meet Natalie Turner – registered nurse and EMR educator at SA Health
NI 2020 Meet Natalie Turner Registered nurse and EMR educator at SA Health Natalie Turner has had a successful career working with SA Health, and more recently, on the state-wide EMR project as an educator. Natalie also works with the HISA South Australian state...
Kate Lucas’s learnings and impressions from the HIMSS Precision Medicine Symposia
Learnings Kate Lucas's learnings and impressions from the HIMSS Precision Medicine Symposia By Kate Lucas Data & Technology Program Manager, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, CSIRO Kate Birch is a member of the Precision Medicine Community of Practice Steering...
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[ BLOG ] : Personalising precision medicine
Blog Personalising precision medicine By Monica Ferrie (Consumer Representative) and Kathy Campbell, part of the Precision Health Community of Practice Committee The journey to needing bespoke care is also bespoke. The health ‘system’ and our care model are focussed...
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[ BLOG ] : Artificial intelligence and precision healthcare
Blog Artificial intelligence and precision healthcare By Peter Williams Part of the Precision Medicine Community of Practice Steering Committee The HISA Precision Medicine Community of Practice sees precision medicine as not constrained to developments associated with...
Interested in a career in nursing or midwifery informatics?
Nurses and midwives wanting to increase their knowledge and/or skills in nursing, midwifery, or health informatics have several avenues. Several universities have postgraduate coursework programs and nurses and midwives are advised to contact local universities...
Telehealth designed with the patient in mind
Blog Telehealth designed with the patient in mind By Dr Mark Santamaria (part of the Clinical Informatics Community of Practice Steering Committee) I just received the advance notification of the Australian Telehealth Conference 2018 in my email, and it reminded me of...
Shape Australia’s first e-safety professional practice standard
E-safety is all about patient safety. Help us reduce the risk from incorrect, missing, incomplete and delayed health information. Take part in this consultation. It is vitally important to reduce risks arising from incorrect, missing, incomplete and...