Though 15 years ago it may have been far from being realised, there is now high potential for the internet to promote health information and nurture consumer and professional communication (Eysenbach & Jadad, 2001). The internet and technological systems inherit both consumers, who willingly want to engage and learn about their health but also involves technical prerequisites, to serve as an ideal avenue to promote consumer education and decision support (Eysenbach & Jadad, 2001).
A comprehensive health informatics education framework is required to allow Australian and international collaborations of health informatics education to functional optimally (Garde et al., 2005). This is a laborious, however necessary task if the health sector is to increasingly rely on internet and technological systems techniques in the provision of health care (Garde et al., 2005). Health informatics may not provide a miracle solution to every problem in healthcare, appropriate applications of innovative information technology to the provision of health care can see promising strategies to address shortcomings in the health system and advancing the practice of medicine (Rodrigues, 2009).