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Article: Health informatics body world leader.
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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Oct 31, 2002 (Hospital & Healthcare - ABIX via COMTEX)
The world of healthcare in Australia is increasingly reliant on IT. This is why an organisation - the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) - has been created to link IT and healthcare, so that more professional training in this field is possible. It is a professional body for health informatics professionals and is one of the first of its type in the world. It was founded by Professor Enrico Coiera, of the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales. One impetus for the creation of ACHI is the shortage of personnel skilled enough to create complex information systems in ...