Health Informatics Society of Australia

‘Assisted’ here means ‘that the job of the healthcare worker is made safer and easier and that the health consumer is supported in their decisions and actions’.

Its membership is drawn from consumers, clinicians and other health information systems users as well as health informaticians, engineers, scientists, technologists, systems developers, managers, psychologists, lawyers, policy officers, researchers and others.

HISA has communities of practice in nursing informatics, user experience, clinical informatics, cybersecurity and digital hospital design.

One of the education activities of the society is the annual national Health Informatics Conference (HIC) which attracts around 1000 delegates and features a sizeable trade show and the country's only interoperability demonstration.

HISA is the national affiliate of the International Medical Informatics Association[2] and convener of the Coalition for E-Health.