Yes I have been quiet for a while, but a whole team of us have been working furiously in the background to establish the first event for our Digital Healthcare Design SIG.  This will be a two day workshop/conference to be held at in Melbourne on August 23 and 24 as part of HISA's HIC2010 conference.  

This workshop brings together clinicians, architects, engineers, systems designers, and health IT specialists to look at the role of information technology in the physical design of the hospital of the future.

There are two main objectives. The first is to encourage cross discipline dialogue, as we believe there is a great opportunity for synergy and innovation by bringing these groups together to cooperatively address the issue of hospital design. The second objective is the start contributing some IT focused content into the Hospital Building Guidelines.

Have a look at the conference website at www.digitalhealthdesign.org

We also have a SHOUT site set up where you can comment and give your ideas about what needs to change to improve the hospital expetrience and deliver on the objective of people centred care.

You can find the SHOUT site at http://shouts.digitalhealthdesign.org

Go to the SHOUT site and let us know what you think...you don't have to leave your name just your ideas.

Just to let you know, I will be chairing the event along with Keith Davis from Norman Disney Young.  We have lots of great speakers and a fantastic interactive format, so it should be a great event.