We would like to invite you to participate with opinion leaders to influence the development of Australia's future hospitals.

In Australia there are over $30 Billion worth of hospitals in the design or construction phase. The development of these new facilities will frame the way we deliver care in the next 15 years. Information technology in healthcare will play a critically important role in defining that future.

This workshop brings together clinicians, architects, engineers, systems designers, and health IT specialists to look at the role of information technology in the physical design of the hospital of the future.

The workshop will consist of keynote speakers, followed by delegate workshop sessions and panel discussions of the outputs. The areas covered will include:

  • Clinical Needs
  • Support Services Needs
  • Educational and Research Needs
  • Social Needs

The final output of the workshop will be a digital hospital framework that will contribute to establishing IT design criteria for the National Hospital Building Guidelines.

Registration is only $660 (inc gst).

You can register online, just click on the registration link in the menu or you can call HISA on 61-3-9388-0555

If you want to let us know what needs be done to improve our hospitals then click on the "Shout Out" link on the menu and go to our "SHOUT" ideas development site.

This inaugural workshop is proudly part of Australia’s 18th Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2010). HIC 2010 is being held from 24-26 August in Melbourne and HIC delegates are able to attend the Digital Healthcare Design Workshop for only $200. For more information on HIC please visit www.hisa.org.au/hic2010.

Dates

Monday 23 August 2010
Tuesday 24 August 2010

Location

Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre

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Keynote Speakers

Daryl Jackson
Director, Jackson Architecture

Health Design in Australia

Prof Ian Forbes
Adjunct Professor and Director of the Research Unit "Group for Health Architecture and Planning" (GHAAP), Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building at University of Technology Sydney

The Social Needs of the Digital Hospital of 2020

Dr Paul Barach
Project Leader, NSW Trauma Collaborative, NSW Motor Accident Authority; Associate Professor, College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Senior Research Fellow, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.

The Clinical Needs and Challenges of the Digital Hospital of 2020

Michael Boland
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco

Health IT System Characteristics in 2020

Tony Michele
Project Director, Parkville Cancer Care Centre

Operational requirements of the digital hospital of 2020

Dr Ralph Hansen
Director of Information Services and Planning, The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Clinical & Operational IT Characteristics of the Digital Hospital of 2020

Prof John Wilson
Respiratory Physician & Head of the Cystic Fibrosis Service, The Alfred Hospital (Melbourne)

The Educational Needs of the Digital Hospital of 2020

Brendan Kelly
Director ICT Architecture, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

Educational & Social IT Characteristics of the Digital Hospital of 2020