Real people. Real Experience. Using digital technology for good

Julia Gillard was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010 and served in that office until June 2013. Ms Gillard is the first woman to ever serve as Australia’s Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister.

She currently serves as the Chair of Beyond Blue, one of Australia’s leading mental health awareness bodies; is Chair of global funding body for education in developing countries, the Global Partnership for Education; and is the inaugural Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College in London, which through research, practice and advocacy, is addressing women’s under-representation in leadership. She recently released her second book ‘Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons’ which is co-authored by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

COVID-19: Setting the course for the future of digital public health

What is the future of the health informatics workforce?

From fear to curiosity: Getting leadership digitally ready

Rachel Dunscombe is CEO of the NHS Digital Academy, Director at Tektology and strategic advisor to the Northern Care Alliance / Salford NHS Group. She provides advisory services to the Secretary of State for Health in the UK and is the healthcare representative on the UK government AI committee.

Through her academic work, Rachel has received a visiting professorship at Imperial College, London. She is a non-executive director of the Digital Health Society and formerly the Director of Digital for NCA / Salford Group which was the NHS’s most digitally mature organisation.

Using big data and artificial intelligence for new precision public health approaches to health, wellness, resilience and adaption

Professor Carolyn McGregor AM is the Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence for Health and Wellness and a two-time Canada Research Chair in Health Informatics based at Ontario Tech University. She is the co-Director and Founder of the Joint Research Centre in Artificial Intelligence for Health and Wellness between Ontario Tech University and University of Technology, Sydney.

Dr McGregor AM has led pioneering research in Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence, deep learning, internet of things, temporal data mining and cloud computing. She now progresses this research within the context of critical care medicine, precision public health, mental health, astronaut health and military and civilian tactical training. She is the inventor and lead on two international award-winning AI driven Big Data analytics platforms for health and wellness, Artemis and Athena.

She has over 170 refereed publications, 3 patents in multiple jurisdictions and has established two start-up companies resulting from her research. Her many recognitions include being awarded the Order of Australia in 2014 and being named as a Women Leader in Digital Health by Digital Health Canada.

🗣 Panel | The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Paula has been a leader in the use of technology to support healthcare since 1979 when she implemented the Exeter Nursing System in England. Since that time she has led informatics developments in practice, education and management. Paula currently runs an open access online three-year module for all undergraduate nurses, midwives and allied health professionals covering e-health from information security through language and systems to the future possibilities, in all some 2,5000 students have 24/7 access to this module. Paula is a member of the 5 Countries Chief Nursing Officer’s Digital Leadership Group, a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society and Paula has just been elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics.

Paula was made an honorary fellow of IMIA NI in 2012 and from 2013 she has been the Co-Chair of the IMIA NI Education Working Group. With Professor Walter Sermeus and Professor Patrick Weber, Paula was co-chair of the editorial committee for the World Congress on Nursing Informatics (NI 2016, Geneva).

Rebuilding trust for a human-centered data economy

Julian Ranger is a serial entrepreneur, executive chairman and founder of digi.me, a Chartered Engineer and a Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut. Digi.me is a decentralised personal data solution which empowers individuals to share more and better data to enable businesses to provide more and better value, with 100% privacy, security and consent.

Initially an aeronautical engineer, Julian founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, specialising in interoperability and the military internet, and grew it to a staff of 230, with subsidiaries in the USA, Germany, Malaysia and Australia prior to its sale to Lockheed Martin in 2005.

Julian is also an angel investor in more than 20 start-up businesses, including firms such as Hailo, DataSift and Astrobotic. He is Fellow of the IMechE and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Engineers.

🗣 Panel | Artificial intelligence: The new wave powering healthcare delivery 2020 and beyond

Digital health perspectives: 2020 and beyond

Digital health perspectives: 2020 and beyond

How can behavioural science advance digital health?

Associate Professor Peter Bragge specialises in translating research evidence into practice and policy to address challenges faced in health and sustainable development. This involves identifying, appraising and cataloguing research evidence; exploring the practice context through consultation with practitioners and policymakers and consulting on intervention design and implementation.

As Director of Health Programs for BehaviourWorks Australia, Peter manages partnerships with a number of government and other agencies. Peter also leads Monash Sustainable Development Institute’s collaboration with McMaster University in Canada to build Social Systems Evidence – the world’s largest evidence resource for sustainable development goals.

TBC

Shared infrastructure to advance progress towards a learning health system: Let’s work together

Prof Wendy Chapman is the Associate Dean of Digital Health and Informatics at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Director of the new Centre for Digital Transformation of Health. Her interests include biomedical informatics, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and application of informatics to clinical care and research. Wendy is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the US National Academy of Medicine.

🗣 Panel | Artificial intelligence: The new wave powering healthcare delivery 2020 and beyond

🗣 Panel | Artificial intelligence: The new wave powering healthcare delivery 2020 and beyond

🗣 Panel | Towards a digital health future in pharmacy – benefits and outcomes

Dr Peter Del Fante is a well-respected expert in systems thinking, digital health innovation, data governance and change management in general practice. His experience as a leading GP in regional health associations has led to the development of digital tools that support coordinated and integrated care, as well as data analytics and use of mapping tools to support CQI in general practice and population health management system.

From 2008 to 2016, Peter was a Clinical Governance Lead for the National eHealth Transition Authority and is currently a Clinical reference Lead with ADHA. He is passionate about improving interoperability within digital health ecosystems and to use these to expand the scope and cost effectiveness of primary health care so as to optimise people’s health and wellbeing.

🗣 Panel | What does the future health workforce look like

Clinical leadership: Medical, clinical and digital health – why is this important to me?

Data and systems driving innovation and change: A physicians perspective

Digital health perspectives: 2020 and beyond

Collaboration in healthcare – The digital health Communities of Excellence – East Arnhem NT

🗣 Panel | What does the future health workforce look like

Christopher How has over 20 years’ experience in management and senior management across a number of industry sectors. Positions have included State Commercial Manager, Regional and General Manager, Chief Operating Officer and in more recent years, Chief Executive Officer of Bethanie, one of Western Australia’s leading not-for-profit aged care and retirement living providers.

A dedicated health and community industry leader, Chris has participated on a number of industry related boards over the past decade including Leading Aged Services Australia (LASA) and formerly as President of the LASA Western Australian Chapter (LASA-WA). He is also a Board Director of Interlife Group and has recently been appointed as Chair of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Aged Care Forum.

The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Healthcare: Any-time, any-where, any-body

Marie Johnson is an internationally recognised inclusion advocate and entrepreneur who tackles complex problems. She is a recognized global speaker and commentator on artificial intelligence, technology, digital services, e-health, identity and innovation. She conceived and led the global co-design effort with people with disability to deliver “Nadia” the first AI digital human for service delivery. She also worked with Allan Johnson to co-create the artificial intelligent “Digital Human Cardiac Coach”, currently being delivered at a hospital network in the United States.

Her many recognitions and achievements include being awarded US Government O-Visa for individuals with extraordinary skills, UN Public Services Award, Australian PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Sector Management, named one of Australia’s “100 Women of Influence”, named Innovative CIO of the Year in Australia and awarded the “Exceptional Woman of Excellence” by the global Women Economic Forum.

The promise of digital health transformation in the COVID-19 age

Designing a data strategy to enable clinical innovation

Robert Kluttz is the Executive Director of Clinical Improvement and Innovation for CEIH where he drives innovation capability and capacity across SA’s healthcare system. He has spent 20 years building innovation and operational excellence capabilities for the many complex organizations across Australia and the US including Kaiser Permanente, GenesisCare and NASA.

New business practices in GP clinics: Designing and changing the user experience

Dr Simon Kos is responsible for driving the rapid expansion of a new generation of medical clinics across the country – no more stuffy waiting rooms, lightning-speed visits, or back-breaking admin for doctors. He is on a mission to combine purpose-built technology with genuine compassion and redefine everyday healthcare to fit the modern-day lifestyle.

Simon is an AHPRA registered medical practitioner with 18 years’ experience in digital health, most notably 9 years at Microsoft, and prior to that, Cerner and InterSystems. Before entering the world of digital health, Simon practiced medicine in Sydney public hospitals with a focus on critical care. This personal insight into the challenges medical practitioners face every day has proven invaluable for providing ongoing support to practitioners across the country.

🗣 Panel | Artificial intelligence: The new wave powering healthcare delivery 2020 and beyond

Digital health perspectives 2020 and beyond

Unprecedented: The doctor will Zoom you soon* (*Possibly. Conditions apply.)

Gillian Mason is a physiotherapist and rehabilitation researcher who also happens to be living with multiple chronic illnesses. At Hunter Medical Research Institute, she manages the Priority Research Centre for Stroke and Brain Injury’s Stroke Research Register and its consumer engagement and communication strategy. She is a science communicator for the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Stroke Rehabilitation and Brain Repair. As a clinical research assistant for the Centre for Rehab Innovations, her focus is on innovating solutions for delivering individualised rehabilitation in the home and community setting.

Gillian has gained a special insight into how our current healthcare system works, or doesn’t work, thanks to her constant array of time-consuming medical appointments. She is busy overcoming her own learned ableism to properly value and leverage her lived experience, and expertise as an advocate, for meaningful consumer involvement in health and medical research.

🗣 Panel | Towards a digital health future in pharmacy – benefits and outcomes

Implementing the Parkville EMR during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jackie McLeod led the rollout of the Epic EMR across the four Parkville health services, as well as the implementation of the full EMR at the Royal Children’s Hospital’s in 2016.

Jackie has over 25 years of experience in Victorian public hospitals. She has been responsible for the successful implementation of $235 million large health service transformational digital health programs that have delivered improved patient and operational outcomes.

🗣 Panel | What does the future health workforce look like?

🗣 Panel | Artificial intelligence: The new wave powering healthcare delivery 2020 and beyond

My journey: Navigating the world of virtual care

🗣 Panel | The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife

Shelley Nowlan is the appointed Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer for Queensland. Shelley has over 30 years’ experience in a range of health settings and of these, 18 years’ experience working closely and within metropolitan, regional and rural public sector executive clinical and health administrative leadership roles.

Shelley is currently focused on early career pathways for graduate nurses and midwives by producing operational programs that produce effective nursing and midwifery outcomes for Queensland.

TBC

🗣 Panel | Towards a digital health future in pharmacy – benefits and outcomes

For the last 3 years, Cheng Cheng Ooi has been the Senior Manager – Pharmacy Management Systems in SA Pharmacy. During her PhD study, as part of a project with the CSIRO preventative health flagship, she obtained a large amount of proteomic data, but found that less than 1% of this data was used for her analysis. Since then, she has been passionate about the meaningful use of health informatics to improve the delivery of healthcare in the digital era. Her various pharmacy experiences include community pharmacy, private and public hospital practice.

Innovation in the delivery of healthcare: Creating the future of air logistics

Eric Peck is the CEO and co-founder of Swoop Aero, an Australian start-up with a global reach transforming the way the world moves essential supplies. Swoop Aero is bringing healthcare logistics into the 21st century by deploying a managed air transport service providing access to the skies to ensure sustainable, safe and reliable provision of essential health supplies.

Eric began his career as an air force pilot where he became a qualified C130J Hercules Captain and led missions in the Middle East. Following 9 years as a pilot, Eric worked as a management consultant and then at Deloitte in the Strategy and Operations team. Eric has utilised his experience in complex problem solving to tackle one of the biggest social problems: global health inequality. Since co-founding Swoop Aero, he has led the commercialisation of Swoop Aero’s service, including raising three successful rounds of venture capital and overseeing the successful real-world implementation of the aeromedical service across 5 countries and 3 continents.

🗣 Panel | Towards a digital health future in pharmacy – benefits and outcomes

Adam Phillips is a registered pharmacist with broad experience working in data, software and digital health. He has clinical practice experience in both hospital and community settings and has previously been an academic as well as an expert adviser to the Therapeutic Goods Administration on the safety of medicines. Adam is a partner in three community pharmacies and holds a number of current appointments including as Chair of the Clinical Informatics Advisory Committee for the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Healthcare.

How to disrupt the isolation industry

Caleb is a major stroke survivor and the Founder and CEO of Genyus, an Australian social enterprise and global story sharing platform and foundation for survivors of stroke, brain injury and other trauma.

A champion for lived experience story sharing and online engagement, Caleb works across Australia in a variety of roles in research and education, including delivering the inaugural Genyus Roundtable; an online peer-led focus group for unrivalled research.

Prior to this, he worked for Hunter Medical Research Institute, La Trobe & Monash Universities and NOVELL redesign / The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health. He has delivered keynotes for National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and international conferences STROKE 2018, OT Australia and Australasian Society for the Study of Brain impairment (ASSBI).

🗣 Panel | What does the future health workforce look like?

🗣 Panel | What does the future health workforce look like?

Digital decathlon: Finding balance in the sprint, focus, commitment and endurance required to deliver a transformational 10 year digital strategy

Judith Stewart has worked in a variety of healthcare roles in UK and Australia and has significant experience in IT and digital programs. She is passionate about digital transformation as an enabler to change in frontline healthcare services and the vital role technology and information technology plays in improving the consumer, carer and clinical experience and ultimately, patient outcomes.

Having seen the direct impact that digital health programs can have when treated as the deep, transformational change projects that they are, Judith is firmly committed to supporting users to lead their own change and embrace partnerships to bring together the right skills to support WA Health on its journey to deliver world-leading digital health services.

Collaboration in healthcare – The digital health Communities of Excellence – East Arnhem NT