IFHIMA Congress & HIMAA Conference Special Issue

Beautiful Brisbane, Australia, was host to the 20th Congress of the International Federation of Health Information Management Associations (IFHIMA), in collaboration with the 40th National Conference of the Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA), on 30 October–1 November 2023. The event was attended by 550+ delegates from 30 countries, sharing their knowledge and experiences in alignment with the Congress theme:?Advancing global health: In pursuit of high-quality digital information.

To commemorate Australia’s hosting of the Congress, this Special Issue of the?Health Information Management Journal?(HIMJ) presents a collection of articles from each of the IFHIMA (WHO) Regions. On behalf of my co-authors of the introductory Editorial for this collection, Catherine Garvey (HIMAA President) and Vicki Bennett (IFHIMA President), it is a privilege to present this demonstration of HIM skills and professionalism in this Special Issue of HIMJ.

Editorial

Special Issue of the Health Information Management Journal IFHIMA 20th International Congress and HIMAA 40th National Congress: Advancing global health in pursuit of high-quality digital information

Catherine Garvey, Vicki Bennett, and Joan Henderson

IFHIMFA Regions:

Africa

The need for health information management professionals in Malawi health facilities

Teddie Chima, Esmie Mkwinda, and Stephen Kumwenda – Malawi

Eastern Mediterranean

Designing a comprehensive minimum dataset for patients with COVID-19 in Iranian hospital information systems

Hosna Salmani, Sadegh Sharafi, Ahlam Almanie, Fatemeh Niknam, Zeynab Naseri, Sara Mobarak, and Saeed Jelvay – Iran

Europe

Challenges and successes in implementing an integrated electronic patient record (HIVE) at the Manchester University National Health Service Foundation Trust, England: 1000+ legacy systems, 10 hospitals, one electronic patient record

Mandy Burns – United Kingdom

South-East Asia

Telepsychiatry readiness assessment at the Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Soeharto Heerdjan Hospital, Indonesia

Ifah Muzdalifah and Hosizah Markam – Indonesia

The Americas

Health information management and physiotherapy faculty collaboration to discover the use of health informatics hiding in plain sight in an entry-level DPT program.

David Gibbs, Karen Gibbs, and Barbara Hewitt – United States of America.

Western Pacific

The applications of Australian-coded ICD-10 and ICD-10-AM data in research: A scoping review of the literature.

Merilyn Riley, Jenn Lee, Sally Richardson, Stephanie Gjorgioski, and Kerin Robinson – Australia.