SESSION 151: <br/>Technology knowledge and networking
MedInfo 11
| Saturday, July 8, 2023 |
| 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM |
| C3.3 |
Overview
Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference
C3.3
C3.3
Speaker
A/Prof Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins
Health Researcher
Monash University
Session chair
Biography
A/Prof Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins teaches Health Informatics and leads Digital Health, Climate Change and Sustainable Healthcare research group at Monash University. Her work is focused on developing evidence on the impact and use of digital health interventions for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Berni Zipf
Registered Nurse
Health Metrics
Session chair
Biography
Berni Zipf is a Registered Nurse and has a Masters of Nursing in Gerontology with over 30 years experience in the aged care sector. For the past 15 years Berni has focussed on Digital Health within aged care. Berni is passionate about the provision of quality care to older Australians and she also has a strong interest in the role Health Informatics can play in better supporting aged care providers. Berni is a member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) and is Secretary of the AIDH Nurses and Midwives Network.
Nathan Moore FAIDH CHIA
Chief Nursing Information Officer
Western Sydney Local Health District
VR, it’s here now and worth paying attention: WSLHDs journey down the VR rabbit hole
Biography
Nathan is the Chief Nursing Information Officer for WSLHD. He is responsible for nursing focused leadership to improve adoption of clinical information systems and technologies for nurses, midwives, and other multidisciplinary care providers. He has extensive experience with the implementation of innovative technologies into healthcare with a clinical background in critical care nursing. He worked for nearly a decade as a Nurse Educator developing all levels of multidisciplinary Simulation Based Learning and is currently completing a PhD exploring the design and deployment considerations for the use of VR in clinical training. He is published in multiple peer reviewed journals and an active presenter across health technology conferences.
Adjunct A/Prof Aaron Jones
Chief Nursing & Midwifery Information Officer
Sydney Local Health District
GUIDANCE – How to harness digital innovation for wound models of care
Biography
Aaron is the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Information Officer for Sydney Local Health District and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Aaron has 30 years’ experience working in the NSW public health sector as a Registered Nurse in various clinical specialties.
A/Prof Michelle Barakat-Johnson
Clinical Lead & Nurse Manager of Skin Integrity
Sydney Local Health District
GUIDANCE – How to harness digital innovation for wound models of care
Biography
Associate Professor Michelle Barakat-Johnson is an internationally renowned clinician researcher with a special interest in skin integrity, implementation science and financial and policy implications of skin integrity issues. Associate Professor Barakat-Johnson has extensive experience as a leader in pressure injury prevention and wound management and is the Clinical Lead and Nurse Manager for Skin Integrity at the Sydney Local Health District (four hospitals and five community health centres). She has worked in the field of complex and chronic care for 20 years.
Josh Farrington
Director of Operations
Medicity
Eve - a live digital engagement app designed to enhance the pregnancy, birthing and postnatal experience
Biography
Josh is a digital health innovator who over the past 17 has worked in a variety of technical, consulting, operations management and innovation roles in the healthcare technology space. In his current role, he collaborates with clinicians to design and develop live digital engagement solutions for health
Jane Prowse
CTO
FiveP
The true cost of inefficient clinical communications
Biography
With over 15 years of experience delivering enterprise solutions that support some of Australians largest healthcare services, Jane Prowse is the Chief Technology Officer of FiveP and product owner of their solution Baret. Baret is a secure, targeted role-based messaging app that revolutionises the way healthcare teams communicate and collaborate, and enables structured, closed-loop communications in a way that has never been possible before. Learn more at www.baret.app
Nicole Hosking
Operations Director
Austin Health
The true cost of inefficient clinical communications
Biography
Nicole Hosking is the Operations Director of Radiology & MIT at Victoria's Austin Health. With 21 years' experience in Australian tertiary public health, Nicole's background as a nurse led her to specialise in interventional radiology, and to her current role operating a high-volume digital diagnostic imaging service. As the organisational lead for the Standard Six at Austin Health, Nicole has a specific interest in digital transformation and electronic systems improvement for operational efficiency and patient safety. In 2021, Nicole commenced co-development of the Baret Role-based Messaging application with Microsoft partner FiveP, and has been acting as the internal change lead across the health service for the development and implementation of the communications tool that has resulted in transformative outcomes for the health service's staff and patients.
Dr Vickie Knight
Clinical Services Executive
Rauland Australia
Vantage intervention rapid response
Biography
Dr Vickie has over 25 years clinical experience within the healthcare sector. Beginning as a Registered Nurse, Vickie trained at Royal Brisbane Hospital, before joining the staff at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney.
Holding a Bachelor of Nursing, a Masters in Health Science Education and has completed her PhD at The Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of NSW.