Frontiers of Health Informatics - Selected proceedings of the 2009 Health Informatics Conference

摘要

The 2009 Health Informatics Conference, the annual event organised by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), has provided an opportunity to review the Australian and international developments in health IT and has re-emphasized the multidisciplinary nature of rapidly maturing research field of health informatics. The conference showcased the technologies and processes that are required to deliver the patient centric healthcare. The experience of HIC 2009 was enhanced by the opportunity to see the latest developments in health informatics products, and the support of industry sponsors for the industry exhibition and other conference activities was sincerely appreciated. The four themes of the conference ranged from bioinformatics applications for personalised prescribing to studies of organisational change caused by the introduction of health information systems. Each theme aimed to analyse the leading edge technologies that are being implemented and the opportunities they create:? Personalised medicine and bioinformatics? Next generation electronic health records? New models of healthcare delivery? Preventative healthcare and wellness.