INTRODUCTION For the past 100,000 years, people have been able to produce, distribute and process information in a synchronized manner. It all started to change rapidly around 500 years ago with the arrival of mobile typewriters , our ability to produce and distribute information started to accelerate, outpacing our capacity to process information. Over the last 10 years, the internet and the World Wide Web have really led to hyper-production and hyper-distribution of information, which have clearly overwhelmed our capacity to process it. All the development, knowledge and information are steering the era of Health Informatics. Health informatics is transformational force in health around the world, it is the execution and evaluation of communication systems that improve patient’s health and care. Health Informatics is a term describing the storing, acquiring, retrieving and using of health care information to foster better collaboration among a patients various healthcare providers. It plays a critical role in the push toward healthcare reform. It includes science and practice of health care, its information and knowledge and their management with information and communication technologies to promote the health of people, families and communities around the world. As the system evolves health informatics will get better and better and will form inks with Information technology, communication and health care to improve the quality and safety of patient care, also help to improve relations between the patients and their Doctors. ISSUES Difficulties with health informatics are faced by every nation’s Citizens. Some of the issues are listed below with industry focus. Short on staff- The Australian health industry lacks trained employees. Australia is only one of a number of countries seeking health workers in international market characterized by general labour shortages. The ability of Australia to attract international workers is exerted to be challenged given a range of factors beyond the control of the Australian Health systems. These include the strategies adopted by other nations to recruit international health workers and strategies adopted by other nations to address the historical drain of health workers from less developed nations to developed nations. Australia lacks employees in various districts where people requires medical service but they have not met the Australian standard. The best way to determine which sector needs more workforce is by using the data provided by Australian Bureau of Statistics and the latest Medicare billing statistics for a medical speciality. This may help resolve the workforce shortage in the in the health care industry. Ethics and Legal issues – This has also been by far one of the main issues in terms of setting a reliable network for health care industry. The health industry in Australia is not mainly government owned but operated by several individual private holders. This makes it more complicated to gain information from individual sectors and combining them into one single database, and furthermore upon collection, whether the information is accurate or has been biased. A goal orientated approach may be required and implemented to set the data collection process into action and therefore, can be combined with other data from different sectors to one database owned and operated by the government. Improved and increased excise on life- threatening items such as Tobacco and alcohol consumptions needs to be raised due to their potential impacts and to relief the burden on healthcare costs spent by an individual during their life span. The statistics provided by the Australian Government shows that on average, 50 people die daily from tobacco initiated cancer. This shows that strict actions are required to manage this problem. Not only do deaths occur due to drug abuse and usage of these substances, but a pattern has been identified that showed a lower substance usage upon higher excise. A set database is required to record the number of deaths caused by allowed and illicit substances. In conclusion, many issues reside apart from the few listed above. A goal- oriented approach is required to tackle the problem of managing new mortality rates between various sectors and the factors that are adding to their growth need to be observed. This can only be done by implementing a system that can record and analyse the data for us with only interpretation required. Issues still remain in the system, but can only be depleted by the addition of new sources and databased that are efficient and time saving. BIBLIOGRAPHY Niaaa.nih.gov. (2016). Alcohol Facts and Statistics | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). 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