Precedence Health Care CEO Michael Georgeff was awarded Australia's top prize for excellence in primary care informatics at the Health Informatics Conference (HIC) in Brisbane yesterday, accepting an award named in honour of the much-admired health informatician – and Professor Georgeff's colleague at Precedence – the late Jon Hilton.

Another long-serving member of the health informatics community, David Rowlands, was made an honorary life member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) at its annual awards, while NSW Health's chief clinical information officer John Lambert was elected to the society's board.