18/08/2011
When:	18/08/2011
Where:	New South Wales Australia

The Health Informatics Society of Australia (NSW Branch) educational on Thursday 18 August 2011 was entitled "Health IT-enabled innovation – health informatics research at the cutting edge” and attracted 40 people. The evening was introduced by Neville Board from the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality highlighting the importance of research and providing evidence of the role and impact of information technology for the work of the Commission in informing policy and for the health system more generally.

The research students from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at the University of New South Wales, including Julie Li (Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research) who discussed her work on the impact of information and communication technology in facilitating the role of nurse practitioners, Mei-Sing Ong (Centre for Health Informatics) who presented on automated detection of risk using a machine learning approach, and Mirela Prgomet (Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research) who talked about the implementation of mobile information and communication technologies on hospital wards.

The evening ended with a call for more research presentations in the future, a clear endorsement of the quality of the presentations. Our thanks to all those who attended and to our presenters for their presentations.