Professor Evelyn Hovenga
- Professor of Health Informatics, and Head of the School of Information Systems within the Faculty of Business and Informatics at Central Queensland University
- Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing Australia
- Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives
- Fellow of the Australian College of Health Informatics
- Fellow of the Australian Computer Society.
Member openEHR CRB since June 2006.
Evelyn began her career as a Registered Nurse, and her academic career in 1992 with the development and teaching of a Health Informatics curriculum. Evelyn was awarded a PhD in 1995 from the University of New South Wales for research work originally undertaken in 1982 when she developed a patient assessment and information system (PAIS) used by many hospitals throughout Australia. Her doctoral thesis was about casemix, hospital nursing resource usage and costs. She has more recently established and leads the Health Informatics Research Group.
Evelyn chaired the International Medical Informatics Association’s Nursing Informatics SIG from 1997-2000, and IMIA’s Education working group from 2000-2003. Evelyn was a key contributor to the development of a white paper: a Roadmap for Nursing Informatics in Australia in 2004.
Evelyn has contributed to many standards development projects overseen by Standards Australia International (SAI) since 1990, including ISO/FDIS 18104 (2003), Integration of a Reference Terminology Model for Nursing. Information systems. She represents the IT/14 committee at the national Health Data Standards Committee (HDSC) whose work currently focuses on the development, maintenance and revision of the National Health Data Dictionary. Evelyn is an advisor to the HL7 Australia Board.
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