Editing Health informatics (section)

==== Australia ====
The [[Australasian College of Health Informatics]] (ACHI) is the professional association for health informatics in the Asia-Pacific region. It represents the interests of a broad range of clinical and non-clinical professionals working within the health informatics sphere through a commitment to quality, standards and ethical practice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ACHI.org.au|title=Australasian College of Health Informatics|access-date=3 May 2010}}Australasian College of Health Informatics</ref> ACHI is an academic institutional member of the [[International Medical Informatics Association]] (IMIA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imia.org/members/profiles/academic.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-MaxRecords=1&-SkipRecords=2&-Database=organizations&-SortField=english_vers&-SortOrder=ascending&type=academic&approved=yes|title=International Medical Informatics Association – Academic Institutional Members |publisher =Australian College of Health Informatics|date=12 August 2009|access-date=22 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706094511/http://imia.org/members/profiles/academic.lasso?-Search=Action&-Table=CGI&-MaxRecords=1&-SkipRecords=2&-Database=organizations&-SortField=english_vers&-SortOrder=ascending&type=academic&approved=yes|archive-date=6 July 2010}}</ref> and a full member of the Australian Council of Professions.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ACHI.org.au | title = ACHI Memberships | work =  Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) }}</ref>
ACHI is a sponsor of the "e-Journal for Health Informatics",<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi/about/journalSponsorship | title = eJHI Journal of Health Informatics | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110723113638/http://www.ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi/about/journalSponsorship | archive-date = 2011-07-23 }} (open access journal)</ref> an indexed and peer-reviewed professional journal. ACHI has also supported the "[[Australian Health Informatics Education Council]]" (AHIEC) since its founding in 2009.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.AHIEC.org.au | work = Australian Health Informatics Education Council (AHIEC) | title = AHIEC Auspicing Organisations }}</ref>

Although there are a number of health informatics organizations in Australia, the [[Health Informatics Society of Australia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hisa.org.au|title=Health Informatics Society of Australia Ltd|access-date=3 April 2010}}</ref> (HISA) is regarded as the major umbrella group and is a member of the [[International Medical Informatics Association]] (IMIA). Nursing informaticians were the driving force behind the formation of HISA, which is now a company limited by guarantee of the members. The membership comes from across the informatics spectrum that is from students to corporate affiliates. HISA has a number of branches (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia) as well as special interest groups such as nursing (NIA), pathology, aged and community care, industry and medical imaging (Conrick, 2006).