Visitor Information

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Visitor Information

• Joan Edgecumbe RN RM Dip Admin
• Executive Director
• HISA
• Manager
• HIC National Events
• Editor
• Informatics in Healthcare Australia
• Soon to be webdiva
• Many years, Nurse, Wife, Mother and friend to
  many
• And life long learner

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Health / Medical Informatics

• HISA Health Informatics Society of Australia
• APAMI Asia Pacific Association Medical
  Informatics
• IMIA International Medical Informatics
  Association

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AUSTRALIA Trends in Healthcare Computing

• Healthcare Practitioner profile
• Health Background
• IT participation
• Roles
• Organisational profile
• 62 Government / public
• 21 For profit
• Healthcare organisations

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Priorities for 2000
• Planning IT strategies
• CBR / CPR / EPR / EHR
• DSS Tools
• Implement / support Data Warehouse
• Y2K
• Create / expand web presence

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Business Challenges in Australia
• Value from data 30
• Controlling costs 18
• Integrating clinical practices 15

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Clinical Challenges
• Efficient access to clinical records DSS 26
• Improve quality of care delivery 18
• Comparative outcomes measurement 11
• Barriers
• Time to implement
• ROI !!! Benefits

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Applications usage
• General
• Admin., Financials Mandated reporting
• Legacy systems
• Coding Casemix systems
• Clinical
• Research and pilot projects
• Results reporting

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• CBR / CPR / EHR
• Status
• 11 running
• 5 operational
• 35 planning
• 36 not yet to planning stage
• Barriers
• s, Infrastructure and people-ware

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Internet usage
• 35 Literature D/B EBP
• 19 Continuing Education web
• Clinician / Patient email 9
• 3 online diagnostic consultations
• Support for clinical trials research
• Available to 51 of staff

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Telemedicine
• 44 utilising conferencing
• Queensland the largest telemedicine network in
  the world
• Usage
• Videoconferencing in general
• Clinician to clinician communication
• Patient interviews treatments

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Technologies usage during 2000
• Web enabled applications 23
• Network 22, O.O. 10, thin client 12
• Wireless mobile devices 8 and PDAs 6
• Telemedicine to consumers 2

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Future Informatics Meetings
• HIC 2000 Adelaide South Australia September 3
  5
• Peer reviewed presentations and Expo
• HIC 2001 Canberra, Australian Capitol Territory,
  September

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Trends in Healthcare Computing AUSTRALIA

• Contact
• hisa_at_hisa.org.au (Joan Edgecumbe)
• www.hisa.org.au (HISA)
• www.hic.org.au (Conference)