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Theme: Building sustainable health systems
Sub-topics: Four Pillars
                   • Sustainable health systems
                   • Developing and developed national health challenges
                   • Knowledge informing safe and effective health care
                   • Social / political change

Health informatics is facing its greatest challenge. Over the next 20 years our national health systems will have to treat proportionately more people, with more illness, higher expectations, and more expensive technologies, but using relatively less money and fewer workers. Given that commentators today are alarmed at the present strains on the health system, we have to assume that by 2020, the healthcare system in most nations will thus either have somehow substantially transformed, or failed.

Information, knowledge management and communication technologies are crucial enablers of system change. If healthcare systems are to flourish in the coming setting of uncertain resources and increased demand, then they will have done so because we have explicitly designed and implemented new systems that are fundamentally sustainable. The vital question we face therefore is what form of health system can we envisage which is sustainable in the long run, and how do we set about building it?

Be a part of building the future of health systems delivery.

Congress presentations: Selected presentation streams / sessions will be simultaneously translated in Spanish and Mandarin.  All presenters will deliver their presentations in English.

What is Medical / Health Informatics?

[Def.n.] Medical / Health informatics (MI, HI) is an evolving scientific discipline that deals with the collection, storage, retrieval, communication and optimal use of health related data, information and knowledge. The discipline utilises the methods and technologies of the information, social and technology sciences for the purposes of problem solving and decision-making thus assuring quality healthcare in all basic and applied areas of medical, biomedical and health sciences.
Accessed www.hisa.org.au)

HI is concerned primarily with the processing of data, information and knowledge in all aspects of healthcare.
         HI aims to study the principles and provide solutions.
         HI domains are - research, academia, operations and commercial. 
         HI as a discipline is used by – clinicians, operational health practitioners,
         managers, academics, researchers, educators, scientists, technologists, and
         political leaders.