HISA Checks Up On Health Informatics In Australia. Interesting.

This appeared last week:

Clinical Informatics in Australia: A temperature check

Oct 30, 2017 | Clinical informatics, Digital health

Clinical governance emerged as a key priority in our recent survey of the HISA Clinical Informatics Community of Practice. More than half of the respondents said clinical governance for implementing systems or process changes was a priority for the coming year. The survey was a temperature check on the state of clinical informatics and organised by HISA for the Community of Practice.

• Nearly half of the 150 members of the Community of Practice responded  (48.7%)
• Around 80% were mid to late-career, primarily working in public hospitals (50.94%) and 33% of respondents had a clinical background. Most live on the east coast of Australia (NSW, Qld, VIC)
• Nearly half (49%) of respondents were from organisations that already had an EMR in operation, with another 37.3% progressing towards it (in either procurement planning or implementation mode)
• Not surprisingly, digital health is spawning a new member of the C-Suite, the Chief �X� Information Officer (CXIO). Around half (51%) of organisations had someone in this role. For those with a CXIO, there was some variation in the clinical discipline of the incumbent which in turn influenced the role title. The most popular CXIO was the CMIO

The survey had a list of informatics topics for respondents to consider and prioritise for the next 12 months:

• Clinical governance for implementing systems or process changes
• Education of informatics to practicing clinicians
• Access to university level programs in clinical informatics
• Development of digital health policies and models
• Introducing precision medicine into our facility
• Knowledge of current and emerging technology (AI, blockchain, IoT, etc)
• National/international eHealth standards conformance/ adoption (HL7, SNOMED etc)
• Staying current with industry trends
• How to do change management
• User centred-design
• Interoperability
• WIFI
• Data analytics
• Cybersecurity
• Patient engagement
• Information sharing
• Other

The three that came out on top were:

1. Clinical governance for implementing systems or process changes (55.6%)
2. Education of informatics to practising clinicians (47.2%)
3. Interoperability (41.7%)

More here, including a very useful summary infographic.

https://www.hisa.org.au/blog/clinical-informatics-australia-temperature-check/

Here is the link to the infographic:

�This survey information may be shared with credit to HISA � download the infographic and share with your health workplace.�

It�s good to see HISA providing such useful feedback to the community.

David.