Agenda

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MORNING
09:00 – 12:00	MedTech Innovation Showcase
	A unique highlight of this year’s event is the MedTech Innovation Showcase, a dynamic showcase that will feature the most progressive and cutting edge medical innovations and intelligent technologies used by world class hospitals to improve patient care, diagnosis and interoperability. Technologies showcase include:
	Assistive Robotics in Hospitals and Healthcare Advancing Healthcare with Big Data Analytics Advances in Therapeutic VR The Importance of Innovation in Health Services UoM Temporal Bone Surgery Sumulator 3D Printing


AFTERNOON
13:00 – 17:00	MedTech Innovation Site Tour
	In this site tour, you will visit CADET Virtual Reality Laboratory which is a cutting-edge facility with a strong team of Virtual Reality experts. The Laboratory is fast gaining a strong reputation in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Research & Development and is working with several research collaborators including the University of Malaya, Seoul National University, and industry partners including General Motors (GM) and SEW Eurodrive. In 2015, this is founded by Dr Ben Horan, awarded as one of Engineers Australia Most Innovative Engineers 2018 for his role in developing the technology You will experience how Virtual Reality (VR) and related technologies can be used to simulate various situations critical to training medical professionals in working with a patient in labor. And try in action the Award-winning cARdiac ECG Augmented Reality App.

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DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION DIGITAL HOSPITALS
09:00	Conference Introduction by Chairperson Highlights on Conference Day 1 Key Sessions
	ANDREW SAUNDERS Digital Advisor/Former Health CIO DHHS (Conference Chairperson)

09:15	HIMSS Stage 6 Digital Hospital of the Future Case Study: Princess Alexandra Hospital Connected Care Transformation Showcase
	One of Only Three of the Nation’s Healthcare Providers to Achieve the HIMSS Stage 6 Distinction Innovations and New Technologies Introduced: Clinical Decision Support System, Innovative Medical Technologies & More Stage 7 Innovations Game Plan
	STEPHEN CANARIS Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics Princess Alexandra Hospital

09:45	Designing and Building a HIMSS level 6 Digital Hospital
	ANDREW SAUNDERS Digital Advisor/Former Health CIO DHHS

Morning Refreshments & Networking Session

10:30	How a data-driven approach can maximize patient care across population groups
	MATTHEW SQUIRES Director Precision Cancer Care

11:00	Integrated Cardiac Diagnostics – The Key to Clinician Productivity and Improved Patient Care
	CAROLYN JENSEN Director Cardio-Jenic

APPLYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING TO DIGITAL HOSPITALS
11:30	Developing Next Generation Hospital with AI and Machine Learning: How AI Can Transform Clinical Decision Support System, Patient Experience and Reduce Administrative Burden
	Clinical Decision Support System AI and Machine Learning in Opthalmology care delivery How AI Could Relief Doctor’s Shortage How Artificial Intelligence is Solving Clinician’ Administrative Burden: Clinical Documentation Powered by AI is up to 45% Faster and Improves Quality Scores 36% Advancing Virtual Assistants and Virtual Scribes in Healthcare
	DR SANDEEP REDDY Director Rebus Services

12:00	Learning Lessons in Developing Next Generation Clinical Decision Support System with AI
	RAJESH VASA Deputy, Director Deakin Software and Technology Innovation Lab Deakin University

Networking Luncheon

13:30	Streaming Analytics: The Next Step for Improving Patient Outcomes Through AI
	DR BRENT RICHARDS Medical Director of Innovation and Director of Critical Care Research Gold Coast Health

ADVANCING BLOCKCHAINS IN DIGITAL HOSPITAL SYSTEMS, PATIENT RECORDS AND MEDICATION PRESCRIPTIONS

14:00	Understanding How Blockchain Can Transform Australia’s Healthcare Systems
	DR ALEXIUS TAYLOR JULIAN Chief Medical Information Officer St John of God Health Care
	IAN VARUGHESE Founder Axonium

14:30	How Blockchains Will Transform Interoperability of Healthcare Medical Records to Reducing Medication and Prescription Errors
	TAL RAPKE MD, CEO ScalaMed

Afternoon Refreshment & Networking

15:30	Blockchain Case Study: Australian Department of Health’s Successful Trial Implementation of Blockchain
	Allow researchers to access medical information contained within platforms Evaluating the results of the credentialing technology pilot Critically assessing the potential for blockchain to record medical records and how this can impact the healthcare industry
	DAVID ELLIOT Executive Director Agile Digital

FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS AND SURGERY IN HEALTHCARE AND HOSPITALS

16:00	Managing Manpower Shortages in Hospitals and Residential Aged Care Facilities with Robotics and Assistive Technologies:
	Therapy Robots Assistive Robots Exoskeletons Smart Prostheses and Bionics Hospital Robotics Robotic Nurses Telepresence Robots Logistics Robots Pill Robots Pharmacy Robots Robotics in the surgical theatre Soft robotics for aftercare therapy New Use Cases and Latest Case studies
	DAVID GILLATT Director of Medical Services & Professor of Robotics Surgery Macquarie University Hospital

16:30	Open Standards for Healthcare Data Enabling New Modes of Healthcare Delivery
	GRAHAME GRIEVE Consultant Health Intersections

17:00	Closing Remarks by Conference Chairman

17:15	Champagne Cocktail Networking Session
	Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.

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MEDTECH INNOVATIONS: ADVANCES IN IOTS, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATICS, BIG DATA ANALYTICS, WEARABLES, AUGMENTED AND VIRTUAL REALITY
09:00	Highlights on Conference Day 2 Key Sessions by Chairperson
	ANDREW SAUNDERS Digital Advisor/Former Health CIO DHHS (Conference Chairperson)

09:15	Innovations in Telehealth and Virtual Care in Chronic Disease, Rural and Aged Care in Australia
	DR MARTIN BYRNE Executive Director Rural Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service

09:45	The Use of VR in Medical Training, Education & Therapy
	DR VASILIOS NIMORAKIOTAKIS (BILL NIMO) Deputy Director Epworth Emergency Epworth Healthcare

Morning Refreshments & Networking Session

10:30	Round Table Discussion
	1. Digital Revolution in Healthcare Ecosystem: The Importance of Patient Engagement to Receive Higher-Quality Healthcare Why is improving patient engagement important for patients, providers and purchasers? What are the best practices to turn common sense into common practice? What are the right questions to use to receive higher-quality healthcare in the digital era?
	JANE COCKBURN Director Kairos Now
	2. Role of digital health in supporting co-ordinated personalised care We are in an exciting phase of growth in the use of digital health, with the My Health Record set to extend to all Australians, an increasing focus on interoperability between health care services and greater patient involvement in the direction of their own health care. Sydney North Primary Health Network provides ongoing support for GPs, Pharmacy, Aged Care, Allied Health, Specialists and other healthcare providers participating in the national digital health program. Tools such as the My Health Record, shared care planning platforms and secure messaging have the potential to draw together patient information stored in disparate information systems to improve patient safety and provide more comprehensive, integrated care for our community. Overview of the roll-out program in digital health in our region, including my health record Outline the challenges in adopting new ways of delivering care and effective use of technologies and safer exchange of patient health information Emerging technology enabling new digital channels for people to engage throughout their health journey How do we bring this together in supporting coordinated personalised care?
	ERIC DUNN Digital Health Manager Sydney North Primary Health Network
	3. Digital Strategy – Consumer and Community Engagement for Clinical Trials Recruitment Why clinical trials recruitment is a problem? What is an effective consumer engagement framework? How digital strategy can facilitate effective engagement and drive clinical trials recruitment?
	DR TAM C. NGUYEN FRSPH FAIM PhD MBA EO Research St Vincent’s Hospital

11:00	Disrupt Healthcare – Leveraging cost-effective disruptive technologies to enhance and enable the aged care sector
	See how PresCare is currently disrupting the aged care sector by working with their partners and other aged care providers to build and deploy Apps, exploring the possibilities with existing and new nurse call systems and Care systems, fall detection, wearables and non-wearables.
	ANDRES REHBEIN Chief Information Officer PresCare

11:30	Medical Device Cyber Security: Establishing Effective Cyber Defense Against Rising Cyber Attacks on Hospitals and Healthcare Providers
	ANDREW OLDAKER Chief Technology Officer (CTO) IT&T Services The Royal Melbourne Hospital

12:00	How to Fail in Digital Transformation Within the Healthcare Environment: Lessons Learnt from Implementation
	BRUCE PEDERSEN Managing Director The Checkley Group

Networking Luncheon

IMPROVING PATIENT CARE, EXPERIENCE AND ENGAGEMENT WITH DIGITAL INNOVATIONS

13:30	Transforming Patient Care By Using Smart Sensors and Wearables to Enable Monitoring of Patients From Home
	Health smart homes support digital enabled living based on monitoring the activities and health status of their occupants, using a variety of sensors and wearables. They can offer solutions for assisting in achievement of many different health circumstances such as preventive health measures, chronic disease management, postoperative care, rehabilitation and ageing in place. There are many challenges in building health smart homes, beyond the provision of the basic infrastructure: these include system challenges such as software architecture, integration and safety; and data challenges such as data management, pattern recognition and subject personalization. This presentation will describe the care landscape within which health smart homes may be seen as providing new models of care and will discuss the challenges and some approaches to their resolution.
	DR ANTHONY MAEDER Chair in Digital Health Systems & Co-Director Flinders Digital Health Research Centre

14:00	Unstructured Data Analytics of Patient & Other Medical Record Types
	Detailed content management and the ability to undertake semantic searching of EMRs and other unstructured record types to find information and understand relationships between documents and data elements contained in all hospital systems is now possible using graph-data technology in conjunction with an organisation’s Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS). Through the use of graph-data technology it is possible to analyse and search very large databases of unstructured data like medical/patient records, lab and pathology reports, admission and discharge reports, clinical notes, prescription/medication records, etc. Structured data in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) can also be combined in these analyses and searches, thereby permitting the merging of structured and unstructured data that enables complex search and analysis using semantic or ‘natural language’ approaches. The technology can be applied seamlessly over the top of most existing IT systems in a hospital avoiding disruption to critical production and operational systems. It can also integrate with existing BI and Analytics solutions, thereby providing uplift in this area, increasing the organisation’s overall digital capabilities. A model will be presented of graph-data technology and how it can be used in hospital settings to significantly increase a hospital’s digital capability and efficiency.
	DR TROY DELBRIDGE Executive Director Octantis Group International

CYBER SECURITY MANAGEMENT FOR HOSPITALS AND HEALTHCARE

14:30	Using technology to focus upon what matters to the patient. Real-time patient reported outcome measurement (PROM) to drive high value care
	RAJ VERMA Executive Director System Transformation, Evaluation and Patient Experience Agency for Clinical Innovation

Afternoon Refreshment & Networking

15:30	How Internet of Medical Things Will Improve Health It Infrastructure, Improve Patient Treatment and Provide Personalized, Targeted Machine
	PROF. ERWIN LOH Chief Medical Officer/ Executive Director Monash Health

16:00	Reducing Medication Errors with Electronic Medication Management (EMM)
	Recognize the pros and cons of implementing electronic medication management system Closing the loop on medication errors Layout the steps to successful electronic medication management
	EARL BLESSING CHCIO, PMP, Healthcare IT Strategist

16:30	Medicine and the Rise of the Robots: A Qualitative Review of Recent Advances of Artificial Intelligence in Health
	PROF. ERWIN LOH Chief Medical Officer/ Executive Director Monash Health

17:00	Closing Remarks by Conference Chairman