Two of Australia's leading health informatics organisations are hoping to join forces as a single peak body for health informatics and digital health, planning to take a merger proposal to members for a vote later in the year.

The Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) and the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) will open a two-month consultation period on the proposal today, calling on members and the wider digital health community for their views.