Agenda Draft

8.30am to 9:00am

Registration

9.00am to 9.15am

Welcome address by MC

9.15am to 9.30am

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
The Next Wave in Digital Health – Lessons from Around the World

  • Key insights from John’s travels of 400,000 miles a year helping countries with strategic planning in healthcare
  • Lessons learned about technology, policy, and innovation from Asia, UK, Europe, Africa, and the US
  • The increasing impact of mobile apps connected to existing EHRs via emerging standards such as FHIR
  • Technologies at the peak of hype: block chain, machine learning, and the internet of things – understanding the reality of what works and what has potential
  • The cybersecurity implications of sharing more data with more stakeholders for more purposes


Keynote Speaker: Dr John Halamka (CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess System, International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School (United States))

9.30am to 10.35am

CXO LEADERS PANEL

  • Lynelle Hales (CEO of Sydney North Primary Health Network)
  • Walter Kmet (CEO of Western Sydney Primary Health Network)
  • Darren Rogers (Executive Director, Uniting Health's state-of-the-art St Stephen's Hospital (Queensland))
  • Emma Hossack (CEO, Medical Software Industry Association (Queensland)
  • Dr Tony Sara (Director, Clinical Information Systems, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)


Moderator : Norman Swan (Multi-award winning broadcast journalist (ABC television and Radio National))

10:35am to 10:50am

KEYNOTE
Australia’s First Hospital of the Future – the Hallmarks for Success

  • How St Stephen’s became Australia’s first hospital to reach Healthcare Information Management System Society (HIMSS) Stage 6 certification
  • Fully digitally-integrated = no charts, no writing,
  • A world-class model of patient care: from closed-loop medication management to a fully-integrated patient care
  • Does a fully digital hospital improve patient care and reduce mistakes?
  • What’s next for Australia’s first hospital of the future?


Keynote Speaker: Darren Rogers (Executive Director, UnitingHealth Care’s St Stephen’s Hospital, Hervey Bay (Queensland))

10.50am to 11.10am

MORNING TEA 

11.10am to 11.25am

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE
Using AI and Machine Learning on Electronic Health Data to Transform Medical Care

  • Improving cost and quality of healthcare by learning from millions of patient-years of messy electronic health data
  • Real-time clinical predictions that outperform traditional risk scores by harnessing the patient's longitudinal data
  • Applying lessons learnt from handling vast amounts of web data to help clinicians focus their attention on the right patient and the right data


Keynote Speaker: Eyal Oran (Product Manager, Google Brain)

11.25am to 11.40am

KEYNOTE
The FIRE in FHIR that is Disrupting Healthcare for the Greater Good

  • Australia’s very own chief architect behind FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) talks about the global standard that is gaining momentum among health’s top decision makers worldwide
  • What’s really needed in Australia to shift the focus from a “data” mindset to clinical interoperability?
  • What’s on the horizon for clinical data exchange?


Keynote Speaker: Grahame Grieve (Principal, Health Intersection and Project Lead and Product Director for FHIR)

11.40am to 12.30pm

INNOVATION LEADERS PANEL

  • Michael Draheim (A/Executive Director, Logan Bayside Health Network and CIO of Metro South Health (Queensland))
  • Cheryl McCullagh (Director of Clinical Integration at The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network)
  • Rod Sprenger (Technology Lead at Australia's first fully-digitally-integrated heart hospital, The Victorian Heart Hospital  (Victoria))
  • Dr Clair Sullivan (Endocrinology at Princess Alexandria Hospital (Queensland); Medical Lead for Digital Healthcare Improvement for the Clinical Excellence Division of Queensland Health; Co-Director for the Healthcare Innovation and Transformation Excellence Collaboration (HITEC) and Co-Chair of the State-wide Network for Digital Healthcare Improvement)
  • Professor Chris Pearce (Professor, Australasian College of Health Informatics and Director of Research at Outcome Health)
  • Dr Tony Sara (Director, Clinical Information Systems, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District)

 

12.30pm to 1.30pm

LUNCH 

1.30pm to 2.15pm

KEYNOTE
Designing Digital Hospitals for the Future – an Insider's Perspective

  • Why we need digital hospitals; and what are the latest stand-out features?
  • Essentials to consider when designing digital hospitals; and how to ensure they are scalable and ‘future-proof’
  • A technology lead’s predictions of what the future of tech will deliver in healthcare


Keynote Speaker: Rod Sprenger (Technology Lead, Victorian Heart Hospital)

2.15pm to 2.30pm

KEYNOTE
When Experience Matters

  • Exploring the latest evidence about how clinical users from around the world are responding to their information technology; and what this means for  healthcare delivery systems and key stakeholders
  • A candid look at what it may mean for Australian healthcare delivery systems if things persist
  • Key insights into what ‘change’ may look like; and the promising signs of transformation already occurring


Keynote Speaker: Professor Chris Bain (Digital Health – Faculty IT; Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services, Monash University Digital Health Lead)

2.30pm to 2.45pm

KEYNOTE
My Health Record – Life After Opt-Out

  • 3 months following opt-out – where are we, and what’s next?
  • How is success being measured?
  • What impact will this have on our health system and interoperability at large?


Keynote Speaker: Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA)

2:45pm to 3:00pm

KEYNOTE
AI and Machine Learning – the Key to a Learning Health System

  • The AI opportunity
  • Quality and safety challenges for consumers and clinicians
  • How should the clinical professions and the community engage with the arrival of AI?
  • What’s the hold-up? What’s needed to get AI in action in Australia?


Keynote Speaker: Professor Enrico Coiera (Director of the Centre of Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University)

3.00pm to 3.30pm

AFTERNOON TEA 

3.30pm to 3.45pm

KEYNOTE


Keynote Speaker: Dr Clair Sullivan (Endocrinology at Princess Alexandria Hospital (Queensland); Medical Lead for Digital Healthcare Improvement for the Clinical Excellence Division of Queensland Health; Co-Director for the Healthcare Innovation and Transformation Excellence Collaboration (HITEC) and Co-Chair of the State-wide Network for Digital Healthcare Improvement)

3.45pm to 5.00pm

PITCH-FEST: Watch This Space!


Australia’s leading medical, technology and health start-ups who are leading the charge in next-gen telehealth, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and the IoT, will take to the stage in a pitch-fest like no other.

5.00pm to 7.00pm

Cocktails, Canapes and Networking!
* Music, Margaritas, Meet the Speakers