The Health Information Workforce Summit, presented by Health Information Management Association of Australia (HIMAA) in association with the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) last week, heard from a variety of sources on the vicissitudes of workforce supply in the health information professions.

The shortage in health information workforce (HIW) was discussed by former HIMAA president Vicki Bennett, who was also the principal researcher on an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) study of the clinical coder and health information manager (HIM) workforce in 2009.