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Australian Genetic Professionals Endorse United States Of America’s Government Recommendations on Gene Patents
25 February 2010
Senate Inquiry Patent Amendment:Human Genes Biological Materials
17 February 2011
HGSA Submission made 10 February, 2011
Senate Inquiry_Patent Amendment_Human Genes Biological Materials_HGSA_SUBMISSION_10 02 2011
NGS Workshop Summary
5 May 2011
The RCPA Genetics Advisory Committee held a workshop on issues that need to be addressed for next generation sequencing (NGS) to be introduced into diagnostic testing in Australia. NGS represents a major shift in the delivery of genetic testing, and it is important that we identify barriers and requirements that must be addressed in its transition into mainstream genetic testing
Health Beyond: The interactive E-health experience
1 June 2011
The Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) is launching a new interactive e-health initiative, to be held in conjunction with Australia’s longest running e-health conference HIC 2011.
HealthBeyond is Australia’s first interactive exhibition available to healthcare professionals and consumers allowing visitors to lose themselves in different real life settings, such as GP clinics, hospital, home and aged care. It will showcase the most current innovations in healthcare, including PCEHR (Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record), which is set to revolutionise patient record systems in Australia.
HealthBeyond is a free exhibition aiming to attract more than 10,000 visitors to the event launch in Brisbane, before taking e-health to the masses by way of a 26 city Australia wide roadshow. Due to the expected amount of visitors at the event and in the interest of growing the relationship between Human Genetics Society of Australasia and HISA, we are extending an invitation for your organisation to be involved in HealthBeyond.
HGMD Invitation- Unlimited 3 day free access
21 October 2011
Would you be interested in accepting an invitation for a free unlimited 3 day access to the Human Genetic Mutation Database?
For further details please refer to the following:
Human Gene Mutation Database(HGMD) Professional – Unlimited 3 Day Access.msg
PHG Foundation- Two Items of Interest
17 November 2011
Members may find the following documents relating to the clinical application of Whole Genome Sequencing of interest:
Report on RCPA Bioinformatics Workshop
6 December 2011
In August the RCPA Genetics Advisory Committee and Faculty of Science held a full day workshop in recognition of the growing importance of bioinformatics within all subdisciplines of genetics.
HGSA/ASoC QAP granted NATA accreditation
9 January 2012
We are very pleased to announce that Human Genetics Society of Australasia / Australasian Society of Cytogeneticists Quality Assessment Programme (HGSA/ASoC QAP) has been granted accreditation by the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA).
The HGSA / ASoC QAP is now an accredited Provider of Proficiency Testing and is compliant with the International Standard ISO/IEC 17043: Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for proficiencyTesting.
For details on the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA) Accreditation of the HGSA/ASoC QAP please refer to the following: HGSA/ASoC QAP Accreditation Dec 2011
Clinical Oncology Society of Australasia News
11 January 2012
Following the demise of the Cancer Special Interest Group, HGSA has been pursuing closer ties with COSA.
As a first step in this process we will be posting the COSA newsletter on the website. The December issue can be viewed here.
We hope our members working in familial cancer find this useful. Thanks to Gillian Mitchell for her help in developing the links with COSA.
AACB/HGSA Scientific Education Seminar
2 February 2012
In November 2011 the HGSA and AACB held a one day seminar on Molecular Diagnostics in the Routine Laboratory. Peter Taylor was the HGSA representative on the organising committee, read his report on the meeting here.
