by nicole | Aug 21, 2024 | Western Pacific
In early 1994, I was working in Queensland Health when I received a phone call from a colleague who told me about a position which had become vacant that she thought I might be interested in. The position was Director of the National Reference Centre for...
by nicole | Aug 16, 2024 | Western Pacific
Recently, I had the pleasure of welcoming students and academic staff from Tung Wah College (TWC) in Hong Kong to the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD) in Australia. This visit was hosted by the Digital Health & Innovation department (DH&I) as a reciprocal...
by IFHIMA | Dec 27, 2023 | Western Pacific
The Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited (HIMAA) has been delivering distance education in medical terminology and clinical coding to national and international students for over 20 years. HIMAA’s medical terminology courses provide...
by IFHIMA | Aug 22, 2023 | Western Pacific
ICD-11 was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019, and came into effect in January 2022, marking a significant transition from ICD-10. The revision process from ICD-10 to ICD-11 spanned over 30 years, resulting in a classification system that...
by IFHIMA | Jan 5, 2023 | Western Pacific
The Health Information Management Association Australia (HIMAA) Annual National Conference was held in Adelaide, South Australia from 26-28 October 2022. The theme for the conference was “Health Information Management: keeping health information human”, which was...
