Speakers
Bruce H Barraclough, AO MB BS FRACS DDU FACS

Bruce Barraclough is Chair of the Board of the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission. He is President of the International Society for Quality in Health Care, Associate Dean (Clinical Strategy) of the University of Western Sydney Medical School and e-Health Medical Director, CSIRO. He was President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1998 - 2001), Professor / Director of Cancer Services, Northern Sydney Health and the University of Sydney, (2000- 2005) and Chair of the Australian Council for Safety & Quality in Health Care (2000 - 2005).

 
Presentation Title
Health Services - A major focus for CSIRO Research Collaboration


Katy Gallagher 

Katy Gallagher is member for Molonglo in the current ACT Legislative Assembly, and holds the portfolio responsibilities of Health, Disability and Community Services, Children and Youth and Women. Katy Gallagher is a local Molonglo resident who was born in Canberra in 1970 and grew up in the newly settled Weston Creek area, attending Duffy Primary, Melrose High and, later, Stirling College. 

On completion of her University education at ANU, Katy was involved in the community sector in various children's services and disability programs. This included working with children with disabilities and then becoming an advocate as an organiser with the CPSU. Since being elected Katy has had the opportunity to work across a number of portfolios including Education, Industrial Relations, Health, Children, Disability and Women. This has enabled her to represent the ACT community at the highest level, advocating for change, reform and a good deal for the ACT.

 
Heather Grain

Heather Grain is a Health Informatician and HIM with more than 30 years experience in the development and implementation of electronic information systems in healthcare. She has served as a key member of national electronic health information projects in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific and holds the positions of Convenor of ISO TC215 Health Informatics - Semantic Content working group and Co-Chair of HL7 International Vocabulary Technical Committee. She is the Chair of Standards Australia IT14 - Health Informatics and Fellow and Secretary of the Australian College of Health Informatics, Australia's peak professional health informatics body.She has lead national and international activities on identification of patients and providers in healthcare, as well as mapping of terminology to classification and health data development and clinical decision support systems. Her research includes investigation of the ontological structures of clinical morbidity data, and the use of natural language processing as a clinical terminology implementation mechanism.

 
Julie Roediger

Ms Roediger became Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in early 2007. In this role she is responsible for the Institute's information management including its engagement with e-health as well as the Institute's data linkage activities. Ms Roediger has twenty years of experience in strategic planning and strategic information management having begun her career as an intelligence officer, then spent many years in strategic policy and planning functions within the Department of Defence. This included a period managing the Defence Knowledge Improvement Team. In 2004 Ms Roediger transferred to the Department of Health and Ageing as Assistant Secretary Economic and Statistical Analysis Branch. In this role she was responsible for improving the evidentiary base for policy development and program delivery across the Department. Ms Roediger has a Masters in Strategic Studies and Philosophy and Bachelors degrees in Arts (Asian Studies and Philosophy) and Science (Mathematics and Geology).

 
Michael Legg
BSc(Hons) MCom PhD FAICD FAIM FACHI MACS(PCP)

Michael is the President of HISA and Principal of Michael Legg and Associates, a consultancy in Information and Organisational Systems. He has more than 20 years experience in senior positions in the health industry. Before establishing ML&A he was Director Developments for Pathology, with what was then Australia's largest private health care group, Mayne, and before that General Manager of Southern Pathology, winners of the Australian Quality Award for Business Excellence. He has been involved for many years in health informatics standards setting with Standards Australia and HL7 and has served on many National Committees including the National Health Information Standards Advisory Committee and the Australian Health Information Council's subcommittee for Electronic Decision Support.
Abstract
A Vision for an Australian Healthcare System Transformed by Health Informatics  [ Click to view ]
Kevin Burdette 
Regional Business Development Manager 
BITG

Kevin joined BITG in 2007 and is responsible for the development and marketing activities for BITG's Health business across the ANZ region. He comes from a background in Communications & Information Systems and as a frontline Commercial Manager in the Technology, Environmental and Management Consulting sectors. Kevin has most recently worked with private companies and government departments across Australia to assist them with the understanding and management of programmatic and business risk and the associated process and cultural changes required for success.
Abstract
Steamlined Document Flow - Simply Auto-Magic!  [ Click to view ]
Miriam Bluhdorn 

As a Health Information Manager, Miriam has worked in a range of roles, including as a clinical coder in the private hospital system and as medical records manager for a major metropolitan hospital. Under AusAID's Australian Youth Ambassador for Development program, Miriam has worked with local staff in Fiji to enhance the Fijian patient information system, and build capacity in clinical coding and records management. Miriam is now putting her international experience to good use at the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare, where she is responsible for METeOR, the AIHW's metadata online registry for data standards, and contributes towards the eHealth and statistics work program. Miriam is currently completing a Masters in International Public Health.  


Sally Goodenough

Sally Goodenough is a project manager at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and at present is working on a project to explore the impact of eHealth on Australia's statistical data collections and analytical work. Sally has fifteen years' experience in designing information structures and managing information, including managing online access to university resources, indexing and classification of documents and publications for search and retrieval, subject thesaurus construction, and development of a metadata registry and associated quality processes to support better understanding of data and more consistent reporting within a large government agency. Sally has degrees in Arts (psychology), Economics and Asian Studies, and a Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Management, and is an associate member of ALIA.
Abstract
Impact of eHealth on Australian statistics   [ Click to view ]
Cheens Lee

Cheens Lee graduated from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Health Information Management (Honours). He is currently at iSOFT as Solution Consultant (Billing) working on the Victorian HealthSMART Project implementation. Cheens also has an interest in Business Continuity Planning within healthcare organisations.'

 
Mary Durkin

Mary has worked in the public sector since 1980. In her early years in the public service she worked in public housing and aged care. From 1990 - 2000 she worked in the Attorney-General's Department in a range of areas, including Legal Aid, Human Rights, Family Law, Access to Justice and the Administrative Review Council.

From 2000 - 2004, Mary was the Deputy Director and then Acting Director of the National Film and Sound Archive.

In April 2004, Mary joined the Commonwealth Ombudsman's office. Her main area of responsibility was managing complaints about the Departments of Immigration and Citizenship and Defence. She was in the role of Deputy Ombudsman for the 10 months prior to taking up the position of Health Services Commissioner in the ACT on 23 July 2007.

Mary has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tasmania and a Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University. In 2008 she was awarded the Public Service Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

 
Denis Tebbutt
Managing Director
Australia, InterSystems

 


 

 
Presentation Summary
How Electronic Health Record Implementations are Revolutionising Health Information Management.

InterSystems technology is behind some of the largest, most progressive Electronic Patient Record and Electronic Health Record initiatives in the world. Managing Director Denis Tebbutt will share stories from around the globe regarding the transformative nature of these initiatives and the impact on health information management.
Sue Read

Sue Read is a Registered Psychologist who works as a Counselling Psychologist and Human Resources Consultant.

Sue has a particular interest in assisting individuals and organisations to attain optimal health, and achieves these aims by providing targeted interventions to address issues such as psychological injury, workplace conflict, and prevention and management of stress-related symptoms.

Sue has assisted many Australian Public Service Departments and Agencies and private organisations to achieve outcomes through individual and group programs in managing self, people and performance. She has conducted workshops and implemented interventions to address a range of issues such as stress management, emotional intelligence, change management, effective communication skills, work/life balance and trauma management.

 
Professor Jon Patrick 
Chair of Language Technology School of Information Technologies Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Sydney.

Jon Patrick graduated with his PhD in Computer Science from Monash University in He has two degrees in Psychology and he is a registered psychologist. He has previously held the chairs of Information Systems at Massey University and at Sydney University. 

His early natural language processing work concentrated on processing systems for second language learners (English-Basque). More recently he developed the widely reported Scamseek system for the ASIC to detect financial scams on the Internet for which he was awarded the Eureka Science prize in 2005.

Since then he has worked on applying language technology to medical contexts. He has built a number of technologies with his collaborators and introduced the first real-time language processing system for ward rounds with his collaborators at the Intensive Care Service of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. 

His team has done over 50 projects in the last 3 years with many organisations including SEALS, SWAPS, NCCH, Westmead Hospital, Liverpool Hospital, NSW Health, Breast Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital Westmead, and the Kolling Institute. Most recently he has been working with the Sydney West Area Health Service to introduce a range of IT research technologies into their hospitals.

 
Abstract
Enhancement Technologies for Clinical Information Systems
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Anne Irwin
3M Health Information Systems

Anne has an extensive background in Health Information and Record Management holding both a Bachelor of Applied Science degree and an Associate Diploma in Medical Record Administration.  

Anne's professional experience extends into both the Public and Private Hospital segments having held management and administrative positions in institutions such as Westmead Hospital, Westmead Private Hospital, Parramatta Hospital and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. In addition to her professional roles Anne conducted lectures on a part time basis at The University of Sydney, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Anne was Executive Officer of HIMAA from January 1995 to October 1998 where she was responsible for establishing the first HIMAA national office and infrastructure.

Anne's most recent assignment before joining 3M Health Information Systems was with Ramsay Healthcare where she was responsible for the co-ordination and implementation of the admissions, medical records and case mix modules for there new patient administration system.

 
Presentation Summary
Enabling the EHR
Kate Horkings 
Operational Director, 
Health Information Services, Southern Health.
Kate has more than twenty years of administrative experience in the health sector. This experience spans I.T., health information management, project and general management. 

Kate has worked at a number of healthcare agencies: P.A.N.C.H, Bundoora Extended Care Centre, Monash Medical Centre and Fairfield Hospitals. In addition Kate has worked as a consultant for 7 years servicing private hospitals, government agencies and software suppliers. 

Kate is a qualified Health Information Manager and also has Graduate Diplomas in Health Administration and Information Technology as well as a Master of Business in Information Technology. 

In 2002 Kate joined Southern Health and has held various roles including the HealthSMART Project Manager. Her current role is Health Information Services Operations Director.

 
Paul Higgins
File Technology Pty Ltd

FILE Technology are experts in providing complete RFID tracking solutions covering file management, assets and people.

Paul will be demonstrating the different RFID technologies specifically developed by FILE for the Health Information Industries. These include tracking Medical Records, Patients (including babies) and assets (such as wheelchairs and beds).

 
Chris Mount
Director, eHealth Clinical Communications, Department of Health and Aging

Chris has been working in the health information field for eleven years. Following doctoral studies at the ANU on "An Integrated Health Record and Information System for Australia", he started with the Commonwealth Government providing secretariat support for the National Electronic Health Records Taskforce. 

He subsequently worked on the HealthConnect Architecture and Electronic Decision Support. Chris is now working on advancing the adoption of electronic clinical communications including prescriptions, referrals, hospital discharges and diagnostic orders and results.
Presentation Summary
Aligning health information standards development with the national eHealth agenda.
Klaus Veil
Chair HL7 Australia

Klaus Veil has been involved in medical technology for over 25 years. For 7 years he was the CIO of a major Sydney-based health care corporation. As as result, the integration of diverse health information systems has been his strong focus.

Klaus's background is medical technology development and economics. He is a Research Fellow at the University of Ballarat, has lectured at Sydney University and LaTrobe University, Melbourne, and manages a specialised Health IT systems interoperability consultancy.

Klaus is active in the development of health information technology standards - both locally and internationally. He chairs IT-014-06, IT-014-06-03 - the peak HL7 Standards Committees in Australia - and HL7 Australia. For 8 years, Klaus served as the only non-US member on the Board of HL7 USA.
Elizabeth Moss  

Elizabeth is a Health Information Manager and Informatician with over 25 years experience working in the health sector at organisational, state, national levels and internationally.

Elizabeth works with organisations to understand, manage and use health information resources including advice on the application of health informatics standards to attain organisational objectives. Understanding an organisations business objectives resources and infrastructure facilitate the development of strategies and plans to strength and build capacity in managing health information. 

Current work with Department of Health and Ageing in Canberra involves analysis of the business processes of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the adoption of the Australian Medicines Terminology.
Paul Frosdick

Paul graduated from the Welsh School of Pharmacy in 1985 and completed his professional training at Guy's Hospital, London and registering as a Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in August 1986.

Following a 15 year clinical career Paul joined NHS Connecting for Health's predecessor organisation in October 2000 where he was responsible for the migration/development of legacy terminologies into SNOMED Clinical Terms and the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices and was part of the UK terminology management team. 

Paul joined NEHTA on secondment from the NHS in October 2006 with a brief to set up the professional and informatics elements of a national clinical terminology service. 

Since December 2007 he has focused on providing expert terminology support and in pioneering the development of an emerging clinical safety assessment program for terminology. 

Paul is currently a member of the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation's Content Committee and has previously served as Co-Chair of the HL7 Vocabulary Technical Committee. 

Paul gained an MBA from the University of Hull focusing on the development of a program of outcomes based audit as a means of demonstrating pharmaceutical service value in the acute sector.