CiLN Advisory Panel Update - September

NEWS – CiLN Advisory Panel member Karen Day

What a ride it has been, these last three years and what a ride it will be in the coming year! From our small beginning to a digital health future that can only be developed with our clinical informatics leaders bang in the middle of the action. 

The Nursing and Midwifery Congress (hosted by Medinfo) last month featured advanced and broad contributions of nurses and midwives all over the world. I presented our Clinical Informatics Position Statement as part of a panel discussion led by Karen Blake. We shared the stage with nurses from Australia and discussed the process we followed to create and implement our different Position Statements. The CiLN Position Statement is an expression of who we are, what we do, the values we hold and the call we made to be integral to the digital health future of New Zealand. 

I am writing this update as a member of the Advisory Panel but CiLN is about you and what you do with your membership of this important ‘rabble’ called the Clinical Informatics Leadership Network. Here is how to be involved. 

Participate in the working groups that have formed. They are ways to channel your energy into clinical informatics leadership through your role in the industry or academia and return it back to the workplace. 

Vote for new Advisory Panel members. The Advisory Panel has been restructured to contain 12 members, of whom 8 are elected, 1 is appointed and 3 are co-opted. This year we have places for 3 new members – it’s your job to nominate and vote the people you want on the Panel. Nominations are open now. If you want to join the Panel, get someone to nominate you. 

Keep communicating with one another on the eHealth Forum, the new home for CiLN (see the item below). Logon and continue the conversation – there’s lots to talk about! The current reform that’s just getting going, the effects of Covid19 and the current lockdowns and mass immunisation, the need to build a new workforce to transform the health sector and make the new reforms work, helping one another, or just sharing stories. We are what’s needed to form the foundation of a sustainably transformed health sector, successfully leveraging digital health for the improvement of health outcomes. 

There’s no time like the present to get involved!

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