The key corporate activities of MacIsaac Informatics are:

As a clinical practitioner with a background in health informatics extending to the early 1980s, Dr. MacIsaac is able to bridge the gap between assisting clients understand what needs to be done and where the value may be obtained, with the technical solutions. Many health IT projects have suffered from lack of grounding in client needs, expectations and commitment.

Terminology Central: a coordinated approach to Health Data Management

Through work on various health terminologies and coding systems and health information standards, Dr. MacIsaac well placed to advise on enterprise strategies for integrating terminology with system architecture and information models to support representation of clinical meaning and data. Terminology is being seen as being central to the development of health information systems and MacIsaac informatics intends to provide a centre of terminology to provide advice consultancy and contract services supporting enterprise terminology management. This activity will be conducted in collaboration with many of the small group of terminology expert individuals and organization in Australia and internationally creating a collaboration marketed and operating as “Terminology Central”.

Health Policy

After a private sector (rural GP) and varied academic career, Dr. MacIsaac worked for several years as an advisor at the senior executive level within the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. This covered a range of areas including medicines and technology assessment, health financing, primary health care, disease management, evidence based medicine, quality improvement, and the application of health informatics and data management. Building on post-graduate training and teaching experience in epidemiology, Dr. MacIsaac is completing in 2005 a Masters in Public Health, with a focus on health policy and economics.

The MacIsaac Informatics logo signifies the lattice or network which is an essential component of our strategy to best support our clients and fellow consultants. When looking for innovative and sound solutions  it is necessary to have broad linkages and networks of expertise.