Industry Workshop, 15 August 2007
Topic: Health Informatics: Building The Research Agenda
Time: Wednesday 15 August 2007, 8:30 – 5:30.
Venue: Jim Potter Conference Centre, Ground Floor, Old Physics Building, The University of Melbourne, Parkville Campus
A series of four workshop sessions, featuring distinguished national and international presenters:
| 9:30 am – 11:00 am | Enabling research: data, standards and integration in health |
| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Using health data across the continuum of care: drivers |
| 1:45 pm – 3:15 pm | Health informatics education |
| 3:45 pm – 5:15 pm | Local and global aspects of public health informatics |
Who should attend: These workshop sessions will be of interest to senior staff in hospital and other healthcare organisations, public sector agencies, the IT industry and research institutions. The day offers unique networking opportunities.
Workshop proceedings
Session 1 : Enabling research: data, standards and integration in health
We will cover the journey of health data and how to protect its secondary use — for research, health planning and administration. We will discuss ways that data can be described to ensure understanding of the meaning and context over time and we will review the relevant NCRIS priorities.
Speakers:
- Marienne Hibbert, MMIM Senior Project Manager (Bio21)
- Hugh Leslie, Clinical Director, Ocean Informatics
- Michael Georgeff, Director, Monash University e-Health Research Unit and CEO Precedence Health Care
- Michael Frommer, Director, Sydney Health Projects Group, University of Sydney and NCRIS Facilitator, Health Data Linkage Capability
Session 1 slides [PDF 20KB]
Session 2 : Using health data across the continuum of care: the drivers
Health informatics is an enabler of electronic information sharing - across the settings of care, among the inter-professional health team and across distance. How can we share information when there are no nationally consistent and interoperable clinical information systems in use? How can we make progress?
Speakers:
- Teng Liaw, Professor of Rural Health, University of Melbourne
- Sheila Teasdale, PRIMIS+ Strategic Director, University of Nottingham and Chair IMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group
- Paul Gorman, A/Professor, MICE Dept, Oregon Health and Science University and Chair AMIA Education Working Group
- Chris Pearce, Chair, IM Committee, Australian Divisions of General Practice
- Graeme Hart, Professor, DEPM, Monash University and Clinical Director, Austin Centre for Applied Clinical Informatics
- Andrew Perrignon, CEO, Northern Health and Emeritus Chair, Health Purchasing Victoria
- Andrew Howard, Senior Advisor, ICT Governance and Strategy, Victorian Department of Human Services
- Lisa McGlynn, Assistant Secretary, e-Health Branch, Primary and Ambulatory Care Division, Commonwealth Dept of Health and Ageing
Session 2 slides [PDF 2.6MB]
Session 3 : Health informatics education
What professional competencies should a health informatician have? Is there a career path for health informaticians? Why is health informatics so important for the individual health practitioner and for health organisations? How do we build and sustain the HI capacity in the health system?
Speakers:
- Teng Liaw, Professor of Rural Health, University of Melbourne
- Paul Gorman, A/Professor, MICE Dept, Oregon Health and Science University and Chair AMIA Education Working Group
- Sheila Teasdale, PRIMIS+ Strategic Director, University of Nottingham and Chair IMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group
- Evelyn Hovenga, Professor of Health Informatics, Central Queensland University
- Brendan Lovelock, CEO Health Informatics Society of Australia
Session 3 slides [PDF 1.1MB]
Session 4 : Local and global aspects of public health informatics
Climate change and air travel mean that the threat of rapidly-spreading pandemics grows every day. Global strategies are needed, and both industrialised and low-income countries need to have improved processes for disease surveillance and outbreak preparedness. How can health informatics contribute?
Speakers:
- Jim Black, A/Professor, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne
- Lucy Firth, Director, System Performance, Acute Care, Department of Health and Community Services, Northern Territory
- James Fielding, Senior Epidemiologist, Communicable Disease Control Unit, Victorian Department of Human Services
Session 4 slides [PDF 612KB]