[LINK] Health informatics conference, Canberra, 19 August 2009

[Tom Worthington]

A Health informatics conference "HIC 2009" will be held in Canberra 
19 to 21 August 2009: <http://www.hisa.org.au/hic09>. This covers the 
use of computers and telecommunications in healthcare. Given the 
Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has courageously revived the 
idea of a medical smart card for Australia, it will make an 
interesting topic for discussion at the conference.

     * Personalised medicine and bioinformatics
           o Discovering new knowledge in biomedicine
           o Applying knowledge in biomedicine: Informatics role in 
translational medicine
           o Biomedical systems: delivering personalised medicine
     * Next generation electronic health records
           o Integrating new health data sets
           o Data visualising and data management
           o Personal health records
           o Privacy, security and confidentiality
     * New Models of Healthcare Delivery
           o Monitoring systems
           o Assistive Technologies
           o Smart Homecare environments
           o Telehealth, telecare and video conferencing and virtual 
reality environments
           o Information innovations to support healthcare 
communities and social networking
           o Knowledge and education
     * Preventative healthcare and wellness
           o Chronic disease management
           o Building wellness: engaging and supporting the health consumer
           o Population monitoring and preventative health
           o Options for innovative care delivery
           o Genes and proteins to predict and prevent ill-health



Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian National University