Louise Schaper, PhD, CEO, Health Informatics Society of Australia: "What's Missing From the Health IT Investment? - Health Informatics"

Louise Schaper, PhD, CEO of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA, http://www.hisa.org.au/), graciously extended an invitation in 2011 that I could not attend, and again in 2012 (that I accepted) to give a keynote presentation at HISA's annual convention, Healthcare Informatics Conference (HIC).  A writeup of my HIC2012 presentation in Sydney is at http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2012/08/my-presentation-to-health-informatics.html.I unfortunately could not make it Down Under for HIC2013 in Adelaide.  However, HISA has posted videos of a number of presenters.One of the presenters is Dr. Schaper.  Her presentation "Health Informatics: A megatrend driving investment, careers & delivering the future of healthcare" is at http://www.hisa.org.au/page/hic2014videos (bottom video).  It is well worth watching.Louise Schaper PhD, CEO, Health Informatics Society of AustraliaAfter reviewing the potential benefits of heathcare IT, Dr. Schaper asks what I consider the most critical question of all. At 08:20 she asks:  "What's missing from this [multi-billion dollar] investment?"The answer is "Health Informatics."Dr. Schaper then indicates the real-world implications of the field of commercial health IT largely missing its critical founding scientific discipline:At 13:00 she amplifies the point further:  We are not learning our lessons!  The themes of that slide are familiar to readers of this blog, and to current health IT users:Dr, Schaper th...
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