Australasian College of Health Informatics

The Australasian College of Health Informatics is the professional body for health informatics in the Asia-Pacific region.

It consists of credentialed fellows and members as well as associate and student members. The college is an academic institutional member[1] of the International Medical Informatics Association and a full member of the Australian Council of Professions.[2] It was founded in 2002 and regularly provides comment and input to papers, proposals and legislative drafts in the region.[3]

The college sees its functions as:

* standards setting for education and professional practice in health informatics
* support of health informatics initiatives
* facilitation of collaboration
* community mentoring

The college sponsors the electronic Journal of Health Informatics.[4] It has also supported the Australian Health Informatics Education Council since its founding in 2009.[5]

The college has Memoranda of Understanding with the Australian Library and Information Association, the Health Information Management Association of Australia and the Health Informatics Society of Australia.

## References

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1. ^ "IMIA Academic Institutional Members". International Medical Informatics Association. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
2. ^ "Membership list". Australian Council of Professions. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
3. ^ "Documents published by the Australasian College of Health Informatics". Australasian College of Health Informatics. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
4. ^ "Journal Sponsorship". electronic Journal of Health Informatics. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
5. ^ "AHIEC". Australian Health Informatics Education Council. Retrieved 13 June 2011.

## External links

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* Official website
* www.eJHI.org e-Journal of Health Informatics - an Open Access Journal

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Health informatics

Subdisciplines|

* Medical image computing and imaging informatics
* Artificial intelligence in healthcare
* Neuroinformatics in healthcare
* Behavior informatics in healthcare
* Computational biology in healthcare
* Translational bioinformatics
* Translational medicine
* health information technology
* Telemedicine
* Public health informatics
* Health information management
* Consumer health informatics

Medical classification|

* Continuity of Care Record
* HRHIS
* ICD
* ISO 27799
* LOINC

Professional organizations|

* American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics
* American Medical Informatics Association
* Australian Society / Australasian College (to merge from 2020)
* Brazilian Society
* European Federation
* Indian Association
* International Association
* American College of Medical Informatics

Other concepts|

* Electronic health record
* Health Level 7
* Remote manipulator
* Personalized medicine / precision medicine
* List of medical and health informatics journals
* openEHR

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