Latest News

Updated National Health IT Plan

A draft National Health IT Plan was released on Friday 24th April.

Following sector feedback the plan has been updated, and is now available here.  

New Link - Safe Medication Management Programme

We've added the Safe Medication Management Programme to our Links page.

Their August newsletter is available here.

National Clinical Leadership Group renamed

The National Clinical Leadership Group has been renamed the National Information Clinical Leadership Group (NICLG).

The latest National Health IT Plan covers the projects that the NICLG have been working on, and their future priorities.

New IMIA Journal Calling for Papers

The editorial board of IMIA's recently launched journal Applied Clinical Informatics is eager to have more international contributions. So all members are invited to submit their original research, case reports, reviews, news items, and letters to the editor.

New Award Available

The biennial Clinton Bedogni Prize for Open Systems will be awarded for the first time in 2010 to the New Zealand individual (whether from academia or industry) who has made the greatest contribution to the field of Open Systems in the past two years. 

HISO News

In the HISO newsletter for May:

• Welcome to HISO
• Standards Development Process
• Role National Plan
• Connected specifications
• Approved & Endorsed Standards

Introducing the IT Health Board

The National Health IT Board was formed to help ensure strategic direction and robust governance of Health IT in New Zealand. Find out more about the Board and its members on their new website.

HINZ Seminar Series 2010

The theme for the 2010 HINZ Seminar Series is Enabling Sector-Wide eHealth Transformation, and the first seminar is entitled Laying out the Game Plan.

When:  9.00am - 2.00pm, Wednesday 19th May 2010

Where:  James Cook Grand Chancellor Hotel, Wellington  (and via video conference in Auckland)

IMIA News

News from the International Medical Informatics Association - http://www.imia.org:

• The latest updates on MedInfo 2010 - registration and accommodation, sponsorship and speakers, and MedInfo on Facebook and Twitter
• Methods of Information in Medicine is now accepting review articles
• Upcoming Working Group, Special Interest Group, national, regional, and international events
• Dates set for the 2010 and 2011 IMIA Board and General Assembly meetings
• Welcome to the Thai Medical Informatics Association (TMI), IMIA's latest provisional member
• Revised IMIA Recommendations on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics are now available
• Updates on IMIA journals, JAMIA, and IMIA's presence on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter

Demand for Healthcare IT consultants

US healthcare IT companies are predicting an increase in demand for EHR consultants as the US, China, and 30 other countries implement computerized health record initiatives over the next several years.