MEDINFO 2007
12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics
Brisbane Convention Centre
Brisbane, Australia
20–24 August, 2007
Theme: Building sustainable health systems
Four Pillars:
¦ Sustainable health systems
¦ National health challenges for the developed and developing world
¦ 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.
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.
¦ 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.
Why should you attend?
If you wish to network and obtain new ideas enabling you to contribute to bringing about any number of changes needed to make your national health system sustainable. Learn about patient/consumer empowerment through health literacy, multidisciplinary teamwork, health provider collaboration, changing roles and boundaries of practice, national collection and dissemination of evidence of safe and best practice and the adoption of standardised treatment protocols through user friendly health information, decision support, knowledge and resource management systems. Attending this Congress about building sustainable future health systems is a hot topic for your further discovery!
Who should attend?
¦ Healthcare professionals; members of any health discipline contributing to the delivery of HEALTH CARE.
¦ IT, IM, IS, biomedical engineers and systems scientists.
¦ Health, Medical, Nursing, Dental, Public Health information specialists and informaticians.
¦ Researchers and educators in medicine, any of the health sciences, allied health professions and information technology systems.
¦ Government planners, political scientists, health system and public health researchers.
¦ Anyone working within the health industry sector.