Australasian Institute of Digital Health defers conference programme due to COVID-19

SECTOR UPDATE – Australasian Institute of Digital Health

The Australasian Institute of Digital Health is deferring its conference programme until later in the year as a response to COVID-19.

Australia’s largest digital health and health informatics scientific conference HIC 2020 will be the pinnacle of a combined digital health series in Brisbane from 17–21 October 2020.

The Nursing Informatics International Congress (NI2020), which was to be held in conjunction with HIC in July, will be postponed and held alongside the international medical informatics congress MedInfo 2021, to be held in Sydney 21–25 August 2021.

The Australian Telehealth Conference (ATC2020), due to be held in Melbourne from 29–30 April, will also move to the combined digital health event series and be held in Brisbane 17–18 October.

The event series will also feature Health Data Analytics 2020 on 17–18 October, rounding out the events with a technical health data programme.

AIDH CEO Louise Schaper said digital health has never been more needed, and digital health workforce skills more in demand, than right now during the COVID-19 health crisis.

“Everyone in the health sector is intensively focused on managing in this challenging environment and getting on with the job.

“Our members, with their extensive digital health knowledge, are among those at the forefront of policy, governance and delivery and they are needed in the community right now.

“Many of you will be facing challenges over the coming months as the planet addresses the global pandemic. Please know we are here for you and we will not only support you as we can, we will celebrate your commitment to individual and population health as part of the digital health event series in Brisbane.”

Source: Australasian Institute of Digital Health media release, 16 March 2020

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