Health Informatics Conference

<body>HIC?08, Australia?s Health Informatics Conference will be held in Melbourne in August 2008. Presented by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), HIC?08 brings together a broad community of those involved in healthcare and the information sciences and industry. to explore the critical issues that sit at the interface between healthcare and information technology.The HIC08 conference theme will be: ?The Person at the Centre? The conference will take a fresh look at the changing role of consumers and providers in healthcare. This evolution, fuelled by advances in the acquisition, communication and application of information, has brought us to a point where many agree that the next great advance in healthcare will come from the assisted use of existing knowledge and the empowerment of the consumer with this knowledge.</body>