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	Health Information Management Association of Australia Ltd August '08 eNewsletter
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Events HIMAA SYMPOSIUM  25–26 September 2008   Canberra , ACT. Click HERE for more information. Not a Member? Why not subscribe today Click HERE		From the EO HIMAA Symposium 2008 Although the "early bird" discount period has now closed it is still possible to register for the HIMAA 2008 Symposium. The symposium is highly relevant to what is happening now in the health information management arena. Prior to writing, I took a little time to compare this month's eNewsletter items with the symposium program and found the following matches: eNewsletter Topic Symposium Topic Privacy Privacy Issues for Health Information Managers Workshop Australian eHealth Research Centre Presentation by Prof Bruce Barraclough: eHealth Medical Director, CSIRO ICT Centre National eHealth Transition Authority Presentation by NEHTA SNOMED CT Terminologies – How do they impact my world? SNOMED CT Implementation Workshop Speech Recognition Technology Enhancement Technologies for Clinical Information Systems Electronic Health Records Enabling the EHR Electronic Health Record – Cash Cow or Money Saver How Electronic Health Record Implementations are Revolutionising Health Information Management So if you are serious about remaining professionally current, the HIMAA Symposium is a "must do" event. Full Symposium details are available at www.himaa.org.au/2008/index.html or via the HIMAA website homepage at www.himaa.org.au HIMJ Research Paper Archive All peer - reviewed HIMJ articles/papers, dating back to 2001, are now available on the HIMAA website at www.himaa.org.au/reviewed_papers/ or via the HIMAA website homepage at www.himaa.org.au. The page includes a search engine. I would like to publicly acknowledge Ralph La Tella's work in creating this site. Movie Ticket Winners In the June edition of the eNewsletter I announced the commencement of a lucky draw for movie tickets. To be eligible, members must have renewed their membership on time in the preceding month. August marked the first draw, for July renewals, and the lucky members who won double movie tickets were: Jillian Brooke Irene Mwangangi Wendy Sutcliffe Susan Claessen Karen Davision Christine Kearney Catherine Kennedy Geoffrey Ackman Susy Alessandri News….. The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) has celebrated going national! Last week the AEHRC celebrated its evolution and the extension of the partnership to 2012 between CSIRO and the Queensland Government who established the Centre as a joint venture in 2003. CSIRO and the Queensland Government have committed a further $20 million to fund the Centre operations until 2012. The Centre has established research nodes around the country; Flinders Medical Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital , Monash University and the University of Melbourne . NEHTA launches career website National E-Health Transition Authority has launched new e-health career website offering a variety of positions with the Authority. Push for single clinical registry Australian health authorities are seeking external consultants to apply and evaluate draft operating principles and technical standards for a series of clinical-quality registries, intended to improve patient care… given a lack of common standards, health authorities fear they will end up with a conflicting tangle of incompatible registries, impeding the long term goal of an effective electronic health system in Australia. Epworth Eastern – First to trial paperless PBS prescribing Epworth Eastern became the first hospital in Australia to trial paperless PBS prescribing in June this year, following approval from the Federal Department Health and Ageing (DoHA) and Medicare Australia. Medication charts (which act as PBS prescriptions at Epworth Eastern) are generated electronically on the hospital ward or in the doctor’s consulting room using MedChart software developed by a Canberra-based company HATRIX. Updated version of SNOMED CT released The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation has announced that a new version of SNOMED CT is now available.The international release, which is the second this year, has a series of refinements aimed at enabling clinicians to continue working with IT systems with minimal disruption to their daily routines. Millions could be saved with 'paperless' clinical trials Life sciences companies globally are turning to e-clinical solutions in order to improve inefficiencies and cut costs during the most expensive phase of drug development, says a new report titled In Pursuit of the Paperless Clinical Trial: A Look at EDC and CTMS. The British market analyst Datamonitor claims that - on average - life science companies spend between $12-$17 million yearly on mailings and copies of paper case report forms. With the implementation of e-clinical solutions, in particular electronic data capture and clinical trials management systems, a company could save anywhere from $10-$15 million a year on paper and postage alone, the report claims. Internet crawling tool tracks disease outbreaks worldwide An online project called HealthMap mines the Internet to look for disease outbreaks worldwide and plots the results on an online map, available for anyone to view and interact with. As reported in the July issue of PLoS Medicine, it extracts, categorizes, filters and integrates a variety of web-based data sources, even penetrating blogs, listservs, chatrooms, and online news reports.
Tech Tips This Month Web Guides & Directories for Teachers/Students » Click Here   Visit the Health Informatics Wiki here		Latest WorkWeb - Click here for details   §          Health Information Manager / Clinical Coder (Part Time) Geelong Private Hospital , Geelong , Vic. §          Clinical Registry System Developer, St Andrew's Medical Institute, Brisbane, Qld. §          Health Information Project Officer, Ramsay Health Care, Melbourne, Vic. §          Clinical Coder - Health Information Manager, Holy Spirit North side Private Hospital , Chermside, Qld. §          Project Manager - Scanned Clinical Record - Health Information Services, Ballart Health Services, Ballarat, Vic. §          Chief Health Information Manager (Part time) - Peninsula Private Hospital , Frankston, Vic. §          Health Information Manager (Maternity Relief Position) - St Vincent 's Private Hospital, Darlinghurst, NSW. §          Data Manager - The Cancer Council Victoria , Carlton , Vic. §          Health Information Manager/ Clinical Coder- Wimmera Health Care Group- Horsham , Victoria .   For information about news articles or to inquire about advertising here, please contact: HIMAA Information Services information@himaa.org.au
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