Be prepared for the new digital health workplace

By ahhb
Sunday, 14 June, 2015

If you work in a hospital, whether as medical professional, nurse or midwife or allied health professional, you are already experiencing the tides of change. From electronic patient health records to bedside workstations and patient entertainment consoles, the digital world is going to change the way you work.

As a hospital and health professional who wants to learn more, you need to hear it from your peers already working through the issues and challenges who can share their knowledge in language you understand – improved patient outcomes, as well as quality, safety and privacy.
Australia has a peak organisational body for healthcare professionals who want to learn more about the new digital health workplace – HISA (Health Informatics Society of Australia) – www.hisa.org.au
HISA started 23 years ago with a focus on health informatics. Today it is one of the fastest growing not-for-profit healthcare peak bodies with members right across the health spectrum: nurses and doctors, specialists, health IT workers, administrators, policy makers and executives.
HISA will hold its annual conference HIC this year in Brisbane (3-5 August) and all hospital and healthcare workers are invited to attend and hear from the healthcare service administrators, medical practitioners, nurses, policy makers and decision-makers driving digital health in Australia.
The HIC conference can provide you with awareness and deeper understanding of digital health and how it will impact your workplace.
Set on the theme “Driving Reform: Digital health is everyone’s business”, the conference brings together the whole digital health community.
Keynote speakers, both local and international, are always high calibre and bring new information on global trends and issues. This year the United Kingdom’s health reform leader Dr Helen Bevan will attend HIC to speak on system reform. Dr Bevan is acknowledged globally for her expertise and ability to translate it into practical action and deliver outcomes. She provides advice, guidance and training on transformational change to leaders of health and care systems across the world.
Delegates will also discuss reform through participatory medicine – the sharing of information and decision-making with patients. HIC will feature keynote speaker Thomas M. Lee, the co-founder of Symplur the social media company who will speak on the role of social media in healthcare and its importance to patient outcomes.
There are three special events during the conference – for the nursing community, for digital hospital design and for aged care.
In addition, dozens of latest academic, scientific and industry research papers will presented by Australia’s leaders in digital health.
One of the reasons hundreds of HIC attendees return every year is the opportunity to meet and connect with Australia’s largest digital health network. A gala dinner for delegates provides the setting for prestigious awards including the Don Walker awards for the best industry/clinical abstracts. The Branko Cesnik Award for the best academic/scientific papers is presented at the closing session.
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In a new addition to HIC, HISA is partnering with Hacking Health an internationally recognised Canadian-based group who have run similar events in Canada, Paris, Stockholm, London, Milan, New York and Berlin. Hacking Health is a mini-event during the conference designed to improve healthcare by inviting technology creators and healthcare professionals to collaborate on realistic, human-centric solutions to front-line problems.