Daniel McCabe and Neville Board speaking at Wild Health Melbourne

Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary of Benefits Integrity & Digital Health Division at the Department of Health, and Neville Board, Chief Digital Health Officer of Victoria, will participate as speakers at Wild Health’s October event.  

Early bird tickets must close on September 1st: register now to take advantage of discounted tickets and join us in Melbourne on October 18th.  

Daniel McCabe will be joining the 11:45am panel, Does Australia have enough of an appetite for change to learn from the US experience, and do some interoperability leap frogging? The panel will discuss how our vendors can work together to deliver interoperability without succumbing to absurd costs.  

Neville Board will be joining the 11:00am panel, Northern Health’s accelerated roadmap to interoperability. This discussion will be about Northern Health’s Virtual ED, which has demonstrated that where there is a will there is a way to Interoperability. 

Wild Health is exited to hear from these expert speakers, who are joining a stellar line up of industry leaders to tackle the urgent topic of how we can align our digital health strategy with our health reform agenda. Check out the full agenda and speaker list here.  

Mr McCabe joined the Department of Health in June 2015. Daniel’s position is First Assistant Secretary of Benefits Integrity & Digital Health Division (BIDHD). Daniel has the responsibility of establishing a policy platform for digital health and works with the Australian Digital Health Agency (AHDA) to increase the uptake and usage of My Health Record (MHR). Daniel also has oversight of the relationship with Services Australia to improve the customer interface on health and ageing transactions to providers and customers. In his role Daniel is also responsible for protecting the integrity of Australia’s health payments system through prevention, identification and treatment of incorrect claiming, inappropriate practice and fraud by health care providers, corporates and their employees and approved suppliers. 

Mr Board is Victoria’s Chief Digital Health Officer and heads the Digital Health Branch. The Branch conducts health sector planning and assurance. The Branch is developing unique identification and clinical information sharing for Victoria health services, and is connecting health services to the My Health Record system. The Branch also leads the Victorian health service cyber security program and ICT operational assurance programs. 

Prior to coming to Victoria in 2018, Mr. Board headed the eHealth and Medication Safety program at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University’s Institute of Health Innovation. 

Mr Board is a registered nurse and has worked in clinical, management, and informatics roles, including six years managing leprosy and primary care programs in the Brazilian Amazon. He implemented radiotherapy information systems and area-based clinical cancer registries in NSW and has published on hospital in the home, use of data in health care, short stay surgery and post-acute care.