Dr CP Wong
Chairman, HKSMI / HL7 HK
Dr Wong is a Specialist in Geriatric Medicine in private practice. Apart from his 35 years of experience in Elderly Medicine, he also spent 30 years of dedications towards Medical Informatics. He is the Founder and Chair of HL7 Hong Kong, Founder and Board Member of the Hong Kong eHealth Consortium and Founder and Chair of the Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics. He has been the Chairman of the Clinical Informatics Program Executive Group of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority IT Service for more than 10 years. He has been the Consultant Geriatrician and Chief of Integrated Medical Services of Ruttonjee & Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals in Hong Kong. He is also Past President of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) and regional representative of Hong Kong in the International Medical Informatics Association.
He specializes professionally in elderly medicine and has been the Council Member of the Hong Kong Geriatrics Society, the Hong Kong College of Physicians and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.
He founded the Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics in 1986 and contributed in the development of medical informatics in Hong Kong. His main interests are in Hospital Information Systems, Operations Research in Health Services, Organization of Community Geriatric Services, Call Center Services and Telegeriatrics.
He has been active in the International Medical Informatics Association since 1989. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, Health Informatics Research and the Asia Pacific electronic Journal of Health Informatics.
