News and Announcements

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Industry News

11/12/08 Health ministers agree to share patient e-records Australian State Health Ministers have agreed on a national plan to share the electronic records of patients, as reported in The Australian recently.	16/11/08 eJHI call for papers: Special Issue on e-Health System Interoperability Guest Editors Ed Hammond and Evelyn Hovenga are calling for papers for a special issue on eHealth Systemic Interoperability for the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI).
29/10/08 ACHI to be represented at international forum on distance learning ACHI President Terry Hannan has been invited to attend an international forum intended to develop a framework for international distance learning in biomedical and health informatics.	16/10/08 eJHI Special Issue on Health Information Systems published A new special issue of the electronic Journal of Health Informatics (eJHI) on Health Information Systems has been published.
01/10/08 Global Health and Bioinformatics Workforce Capacity Initiative to be Led by AMIA and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation July 2008 Bethesda, MD, June 5, 2008 - A $500,000 grant has been awarded to AMIA from the Rockefeller Foundation to help convene a conference in collaboration with the International Medical	01/09/08 eJHI Special Issue on Privacy and Security The latest issue of the electronic Journal of Health Informatics is now available. This issue focuses on privacy and security. Papers in this issue include:
18/08/08 Call for Papers: HIKM 2009 Please note that papers are due 7 September for the Australasian Workshop on Health Informatics and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2009) - 20-23 Jan 2009, Wellington, as part of Austalasian Computer Sc	25/03/08 AHIC e-health future directions briefing paper released The Australian Health Information Council (AHIC) has released an eHealth Future Directions Briefing Paper.
12/04/07 Report: NEHTA and ACSQH e-Health conference 20 March 2007 The National eHealth transition Authority and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare recently hosted a clinician and consumer-focussed conference addressing various e-health	31/03/06 Electronic Journal of Health Informatics Launched The Health Informatics Research Group at CQU has launched a new refereed eJournal of Health Informatics, fully endorsed by the Health Informatics Society of Australia and the Australian College of

College Announcements

24/11/08 Circular to ACHI Membership A meeting of the ACHI committee was held on the 15th November 2008 in Melbourne.	10/09/08 Changes to the Executive Council Changes to the ACHI Executive Council were announced at the recent AGM.
18/08/08 The New ACHI Website The redeveloped ACHI website has been designed with the intention of furthering the activities of ACHI utilising a collaborative approach.

News of Fellows/Members

31/10/08 College President awarded for poster presentation at international congress ACHI President Terry Hannan was recently awarded a prize for his poster presentation at the recent 29th World Congress of Internal Medicine, held in Buenos Aires.	29/10/08 ACHI to be represented at international forum on distance learning ACHI President Terry Hannan has been invited to attend an international forum intended to develop a framework for international distance learning in biomedical and health informatics.
25/09/08 Terry Hannan's Passion College President Terry Hannan has recenty been featured on the website Passion for Health, describes in easy terms the benefits of effective health information management, with particular	30/06/07 In Memory of Branko Cesnik We sadly acknowledge the passing of Associate Professor Branko Cesnik on Sunday 10 June 2007. He passed on comfortably in the comfort of his own home and with his wife Wendy and family.