Agenda

• Evidence & efficacy – New approaches for health innovation
• Technology in health – the changing landscape: data, devices and digital health
• Commercialization – The challenges and opportunities for health and healthcare

Marcus has a keen interest in health, innovation and science as CEO and Board Member of multiple health groups. As a data informatics specialist, he had developed many key Australian Health Information Systems. His latest startup, Health Horizon, is a global gathering of innovations and smart technology improvements in the healthcare industry, as part of his initiatives to improve the healthcare processes and services.

• Too many digital solutions in health have been unsuccessful: can we learn from that?
• Healthcare services are costly and Digital seems inexpensive. Has there been something missing in our attempts to unlock the potential?
• Smoke and Mirrors: is it digital health just because it’s digital and someone says it’s about health?
• Quantity vs Quality – the slow entry of digital into the healthcare model
• Healthcare as an evidence-based pursuit and the problems faced by digital innovators
• One potential digital pathway to deliver value to health services delivery

Former Advisor to NSW Minister for HealthDr Stan Goldstein is a Conjoint Assoc Professor in the School of Public Health at University of NSW, an Advisor to the NSW Minister for Health as well as a consultant to NSW Health in health services planning and funding. With extensive experience in health services management and design, Stan has advised the Commonwealth on Medical Devices, spurred innovation in health service delivery and design, and has led numerous initiatives to evaluate and improve health outcomes across a range of medical fields from mental health to cancer, paediatrics to end-of-life care.His background includes senior clinical management roles in some of Australia’s largest teaching and tertiary referral hospitals (Westmead, Prince of Wales, Prince Henry, Sydney Children’s, Royal for Women), health services planning and funding, chronic disease management, health outcomes and program evaluation, and health technology assessment. He has also played active roles in medical education and public health, and worked with a variety of non-government health bodies to improve population health.

• Human factor and behavioural design are key drivers for improvement
• Hire engineers and psychologists to work with your medical and nursing staff
• The hospital of the future is…your home

Dr Dirk also holds positions as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. His implementation, research and teaching focuses on the diffusion of quality and patient safety innovations and include business process and systems redesign, human factors and ergonomics, and performance benchmarking. Dirk holds an MSc in Health Policy and Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a PhD in Public Health from University of Amsterdam.

• Patient specific devices and prosthetics now, and in the future
• IT architecture to deliver patient specific solutions
• Quality systems and regulatory requirements for patient specific solutions

Mr Paul S D’Urso is a consultant neurosurgeon at the Epworth Hospital in Melbourne Australia. Mr D’Urso has extensive experience in research, clinical teaching, and medico-legal opinion. He is internationally recognized as a leading Australian neurosurgeon, scientist, and innovator. He invented the technology of BioModelling with groundbreaking PhD research and moved on to join Anatomics, one of the world’s most innovative medical device companies.Mr D’Urso completed a fellowship at the Cambridge University Neurosurgery unit and a clerkship at Harvard University. Mr D’Urso has published and presented over 120 scientific papers and holds multiple international patents. He has won over 25 prestigious research awards and prizes.

Dr Keith was a Director of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Manufacturing in 2014 leading more than 400 scientists from chemical, biomedical and advanced manufacturing. Between 2006 and 2014, Keith was a Research Director for Biomedical Materials and Devices managing a multi-disciplinary team of materials scientists and biologists to develop biomaterials for tissue engineering, stem cell propagation and implantable devices.He was also a team member of the implantable contact lens project in the VisionCRC which designed a polymer, surface and surgical methods for an implantable contact lens application and won the 2004 Royal Societies of Australia Eureka Award for Interdisciplinary Research and the 2009 CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement. He is a Past President of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Inc. and was appointed Secretary of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering in 2012.

Professor Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld AM, OBE, the Foundation Director of Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME), is an internationally recognized neurosurgeon and military surgeon. He is the Senior Neurosurgeon at Alfred Hospital, Adjunct Professor in Surgery at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of The Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD, USA, and Honorary Professor in Neurosurgery, University of Papua New Guinea (PNG). His main research interests are traumatic brain injury and direct-to brain bionic vision device development.Jeffrey is a Principal Investigator with the Monash Bionic Vision Group. He is a Major General in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and was the Surgeon General, ADF-Reserves 2009-2011. He has published 280 peer reviewed articles (including Lancet, Lancet Neurology and NEJM), 40 book chapters and 2 books.

• Emergence of wearables and the data collected creates new opportunities to connect citizens with healthcare practitioners, providers and insurers
• Insurers will be able to create new products and relationships which cannot be offered under a demographic approach and help customers better improve healthcare outcomes, reduce lifestyle issues, thus lower government healthcare costs
• Healthcare needs to focus on prevention rather than cures, to reduce the burden on health systems and to improve the health and lifestyle of citizens. This change needs to come from both governments and industry
  

Angus is an Executive Director in Ernst & Young’s Asia-Pacific Advisory Centre and works with clients throughout the Asia-Pacific region to develop and deliver leading Digital Transformation Strategies.  With over 25 years’ industry experience in eCommerce, Digital, CRM and Direct Marketing, Angus has managed the development of industry leading eCommerce and Mobile capabilities for a major Australian Health Insurer, including the creation of the first global Health Insurance Mobile App. Angus has worked with brands such as Budget Direct Insurance, Firstmac, loans.com.au the ANZ & Commonwealth Banks, Telecom New Zealand, Turners & Growers and NIB Health Funds, AXA, Fonterra, HannoverRe, State and Federal Govt.

• Translating genomics from the research realm to the clinic
• The impact of genomics on diagnosing rare and inherited disease
• Genomics as a platform for next generation healthcare

Marcel Dinger is the Director of the Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics (KCCG) at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW Australia. KCCG was one of the first sites in the world to implement the HiSeq X Ten genome sequencing platform, which has capacity to sequence 18,000 whole human genomes per year. The aims of the Centre are to establish genomic medicine in routine healthcare and to leverage clinical genomic data for research. In addition to his role as Director of KCCG, A/Prof Dinger heads a research lab that aims to unlock the clinical value of non-coding regions of the genome. A/Prof Dinger has worked in informatics and genomics since 1998 in both commercial and academic capacities.

• Outline the journey Austin Health has traveled to drive digital innovations in healthcare
• Explore key factors in successful change management, in particular challenges with medical staff
• Share plans and strategy for digital innovation into the future

Paul is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Innovation at Austin Health, a public tertiary teaching hospital in Melbourne. He has led the successful implementation of numerous digital healthcare innovations as well as overcome challenges in change management and the engagement of medical staff.Paul has worked in medical management roles at Epworth HealthCare, and clinical roles at Medibank Health Solutions and St. Vincents Health. He is also a Board member of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and has filled several roles within medico-politics at the state and federal level. Paul is currently an educational facilitator for MDA National and the Ledman Institute with over 10 years’ experience in delivering professional development training to medical students, junior and senior doctors.

• Exploring aged care service delivery using technology into the future from a customer perspective
• Creating models of care through closing the link between the hospital, primary healthcare and aged care sectors using technology
• Re-enablement approaches in aged care and the use of self-monitoring technology

Dr Tracey holds a Doctorate in Health Services Management, MBA and BH&PE. For the past 20 years, Tracey has worked across the health, aged care and human services sector in Senior Management and Executive Positions for Infinite Aged Care, RSL Care, UnitingCare Ageing NSW/ACT, NSW Department or Community Services and Queensland Health.Tracey has attended the 8th World Congress on Active Ageing in Glasgow, Scotland and has completed extensive research into evidence based practice models throughout the UK, New Zealand, Canada and the USA on a Churchill Fellowship to explore consumer directed and enablement models in aged care and. Tracey has continued to explore innovation concepts to support the ageing population into the future from a customer lens.

• Outline the way Forensicare has transformed and continues to transform into a digital hospital
• Detail the development of a specialized clinical and patient management system
• Show how to disrupt the business and drive innovation

Chris Guest is the ICT Strategic Manager for the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, known as
Forensicare. Chris has specialised in the visualisation and development of software solutions to common
business problems for over 30 years. For the past 15 years his specialty has been in the delivery of Mental
Health solutions for the public and private sector

• The meaning of predictive: Primacy of variation and change.
• The meaning of smart: Not smart-smart and too smart
• The meaning of into: How do you progress-transparency and access
  How do you manage-structure and governance
• The meaning of business: Corporate, clinical or value

Dr Chris Farmer is a recognized authority on patient safety and clinical data governance for improvement with international experience in teaching, presenting and the practical implementation of working solutions. Chris is currently the Medical Director at St Andrews Private Hospital and Clinical Director at Metrixcare, a health analytics provider with a particular focus on “Value”.Chris has been a key driver of information-driven collaborative approaches to improvement receiving various clinical excellence and innovation awards including the Baxter Healthcare Award and more recently the ACHS Quality Improvement Award for healthcare measurement.

• How do we ensure that the advantages of both human and technological intervention are prioritized in high quality health care?
• The latest research on the fascinating impact of human touch, eye gaze, trust and empathy
• The impact of human interaction on healing, immunity, pain and hope

Dr Fiona Kerr combines a half time academic role with Adelaide University as their Systems and Neural Complexity Specialist, with public speaking and consulting. Her work includes examining the dynamics of both human and technology-based interaction. At the university, she is researching ‘The neurophysiology of human touch and eye gaze and effects on therapeutic relationships and healing”. As the co-founder of human-e (along with biomedical engineer Dr Jordan Nguyen), she investigates the effects of interaction between humans and multiple types of technology so that our future use and practice is fully informed.

• Healthcare – an industry in disruption and transition (analogue to digital, doctor control to patient control, fragmented to centralised)
• The value of Wearables in prevention and treatment
• From ‘a point-in-time data’ to ‘real-time data’
• Consumer/patient engagement and diversity
• Shared decision making and patient empowerment
• From ‘one shoe fits all’ to ‘bespoke healthcare’

Thomas Dijohn is the current Vice-President Asia pacific of Dacadoo, a leading Swiss technology company that has developed a unique digital health and lifestyle platform. The core of the Platform is the dacadoo Health Score which has been developed and refined by a team of technologists, clinicians and mathematicians for over 5 years based on more than 70M man-years of clinical studies.In 2015, Thomas has spent 12 months of secondment to Sanofi, the world’s 5th largest pharmaceutical company, as an Intrapreneur-in-Residence. Besides working with universities and healthcare professionals, Thomas has also helped to develop and implement a clinical behavioral diagnostic tool for the management of people with chronic conditions and for prevention in general.

Led by Dr Stan Goldstein, Conjoint Assoc Professor, School of Public Health, University of New South Wales and Former Advisor to NSW Minister for Health.

It is widely perceived that Health has lagged behind other industries in adopting digital solutions to become more efficient. Despite the myriad digital apps, websites and approaches that claim to support health management, change seems to have been on the fringe, and digital has not yet substantially disrupted the prevailing models of healthcare delivery.

This workshop will look at perceived shortcomings and obstacles faced by clinicians looking for digital health solutions. It will look at the frustrations and obstacles to success faced by digital health innovators as well as discuss possible approaches to bridging the gaps and achieving successful, implementable digital innovations in the delivery of healthcare.

It can potentially save time and dollars for any clinician or developer thinking about the clinical and Implementation sides of building a digital solution for the health sector. Some ideas will be sought from participants, and, with permission, discussed to demonstrate the type of things that need to be considered in pursuing such solutions.

Led by Marcus Dawe, CEO and Board Member, Health Horizon and National Health Sciences Centre

Today’s healthcare organizations and practitioners collect a vast amount of data on patients, services, episodes of care, admissions, diagnostics, alerts, medications and now further patient data from digital health platforms. Managing this data can be a huge challenge, navigating through custodianship, consent, privacy, ethics and then dealing with technical issues of transformation and quality. Strategies for simplifying these processes and developing small pilots can achieve breakthroughs in data management whether for clinical data or performance data.

This workshop explores techniques to help you identify and develop these pilots and utilize analytical tools to assist in achieving value from your healthcare data.