Australian Health Informatics Summer School (AHISS)

 

Health Informatics (eHealth) is spreading in the Health sector, bringing many changes for the workforce.

Clinical Professionals such as doctors and nurses need to acquire familiarity with fundamentals of Health Informatics to work effectively and efficiently in contemporary healthcare environments. 

Healthcare administrators and support personnel, from clerical and managerial roles through to executives and policy makers, also need to gain awareness of Health Informatics concepts.

Computing and information systems specialists must increase their knowledge of technical aspects of Health Informatics, to gain the ability to contribute to the development of new solutions and systems. 

Researchers and postgraduate students in Health, Business, Computing and Science must understand specific topics in Health Informatics in order to use electronic health data methods in their studies.

The University of Western Sydney will host it's 4th Australian Health Informatics Summer School (AHISS) in Sydney consisting of a series of short courses during the week of 10-14 February 2014 to address these needs. Each short course will be run as a full day intensive mode classroom or workshop style session delivered by a team of invited national experts and UWS Health Informatics staff. Each short course will be limited in attendance to a maximum of 30 participants, to ensure an adequate level of personal interaction with the presenter is achievable. Notes from presentations and certificates of attendance will be provided. The short courses are not intended to be eligible for academic credit in university degree courses.

Each daily course topic in the Australian Health Informatics Summer School (AHISS) will be delivered in two parts: the morning sessions will be at introductory level (where little prior knowledge of the topic is expected), followed by afternoon sessions at more advanced level (for which the introductory level content will be adequate background).

The 2014 program is summarised in the following 5 day schedule

• Monday Health Informatics Scope: Basic Concepts and Principles
• Tuesday Recording Health Data: Structure and Representation
• Wednesday Using Health Information: Clinical Information Systems
• Thursday Improving Clinical Processes: Systems and Services
• Friday New Models of Care: Integrated Information Systems 

If you wish to register interest and receive further details closer to the event, please send your expression of interest and any enquiries to the Australian Health Information Summer School (AHISS) team by email at hisummerschool@scem.uws.edu.au.

Registration costs for the Summer School are:

Student Participants Regular Participants

	Full Week	Per Day	Full Week	Per Day
Up To 20 Dec 2013	$800	$200	$1000	$250
After 20 Dec 2013	$1000	$250	$1250	$300

Speakers and topics for 2014 are still being finalised, but as an example, the full 2013 program is accessible through Australian Health Informatics Summer School (AHISS) program. Please visit this site regularly for updates.