The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) would like to invite you to the inaugural national conference, Health Privacy Futures – HPF’08. Health privacy is a key foundation of Australia’s transition to a safer and more efficient health system. This conference looks to bring together healthcare providers, consumers and Australia’s leading privacy experts, to bring clarity and definition to this critical issue. 

 The plan is to set the national framework for the future of health privacy. We believe the timing is excellent as the submission by the Australian Law Reform Commission on the proposed Privacy Law changes should be tabled in Parliament around August. Much of the Health related aspects in the Privacy law review depend on the creation of “Privacy (Health Information) Regulations” by the Privacy Commissioner. This conference will ensure practitioners and consumer groups have an opportunity to both understand the national perspective and to help contribute to the new regulations and hence ensure protection to individual’s privacy while maintaining effective health knowledge exchange.

The Health Privacy Futures (HPF’08) event will be held at the Royal on the Park, Brisbane 10^th and 11^th November 2008. This will be a high powered event with prominent speakers at both international and national level together with practical ‘how-to’ workshops at both the beginner and more advanced levels. The program is designed to attract a mixed target audience consisting of practitioners, consumers, industry, academics, government and legal people. The event will include an exhibition to provide a showcase for innovative Australian software and systems companies in Health IT together with an opportunity for agencies to promote their programs.

We look forward to you attending.