<span style="font-size: 14px">MEDINFO 2023 CLOSING</span>

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
2:05 PM - 3:30 PM
Darling Harbour Theatre

Overview


Panel: Interoperability is a team sport
Facilitator: Dr Daniel Vreeman Chair-elect, Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardisation 🇺🇸
Panellists:
Heather Grain Convenor ISO TC215 🇦🇺
Dr W. Ed Hammond Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics, Representing HL7 International 🇺🇸
Don Sweete CEO, SNOMED International 🇬🇧
Dr Eza Hafeza Director of Terminology Operations and Services, Regenstrief Institute 🇺🇸
Dr Ngai Tseung Cheung FAIDH Head of Information Technology & Health Informatics, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Representing the Global Digital Health Partnership 🇭🇰

Awards: Best Papers & Best Student Papers
Dr Paula Otero 🇦🇷 and Dr Philip Scott 🇬🇧 Scientific Program Co-Chairs

Award presentation of the IMIA François Grémy Award of Excellence (the highest global honour in medical informatics)
Prof Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics (TAMI) 🇹🇼

MedInfo Gavel hand over
Bettina McMahon FAIDH Board Chair, Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) 🇦🇺
Prof Chien-Yeh Hsu President, Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics 🇹🇼

Conference Close by the Conference Co-Chairs
Dr Martin Seneviratne Clinician Scientist, Google Health 🇬🇧
Prof Farah Magrabi FAIDH Professor of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Macquarie University 🇦🇺



Details


Panel: Interoperability is a team sport
Facilitator: Dr Daniel Vreeman Chair-elect, Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardisation 🇺🇸
Panellists:
Heather Grain Convenor ISO TC215 🇦🇺
Dr W. Ed Hammond Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics, Representing HL7 International 🇺🇸
Don Sweete CEO, SNOMED International 🇬🇧
Dr Eza Hafeza Director of Terminology Operations and Services, Regenstrief Institute 🇺🇸
Dr Ngai Tseung Cheung FAIDH Head of Information Technology & Health Informatics, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, Representing the Global Digital Health Partnership 🇭🇰

Awards: Best Papers & Best Student Papers
Dr Paula Otero 🇦🇷 and Dr Philip Scott 🇬🇧 Scientific Program Co-Chairs

Award presentation of the IMIA François Grémy Award of Excellence (the highest global honour in medical informatics)
Prof Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics (TAMI) 🇹🇼

MedInfo Gavel hand over
Bettina McMahon FAIDH Board Chair, Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) 🇦🇺
Prof Chien-Yeh Hsu President, Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics 🇹🇼

Conference Close by the Conference Co-Chairs
Dr Martin Seneviratne Clinician Scientist, Google Health 🇬🇧
Prof Farah Magrabi FAIDH Professor of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Macquarie University 🇦🇺



Speaker

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Dr Daniel Vreeman
Chief Standards Development Officer
HL7 International

Panel: Interoperability is a team sport

2:05 PM - 2:50 PM

Biography

Dr Daniel Vreeman is a physical therapist, informatician, and serves as the Chief Standards Development Officer at HL7 International. His work aims to create a global health ecosystem where data is available with open standards that unlock the potential for information systems and applications to improve health decision-making and care.
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Heather Grain FAIDH
Director
eHealth Education

Panel: Interoperability is a team sport

2:05 PM - 2:50 PM

Biography

Heather is a specialist health informatician working in standards, terminologies and data quality. She is convenor of ISO-TC215 HI Semantic Content working as a consultant data specialist and digital health educator around the world.
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Dr W. Ed Hammond
Director, Duke Center for Health Informatics
Duke University

Panel: Interoperability is a team sport

2:05 PM - 2:50 PM

Biography

Ed Hammond has provided vision and leadership in most aspects of health informatics for over fifty years. He has been engaged in AMIA, ACMI, IMIA, HL7 International, ISO TC 215, JIC, PAHO, IADB, and various US Government activities over the years.
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Don Sweete
CEO
SNOMED International

Panel: Interoperability is a team sport

2:05 PM - 2:50 PM

Biography

Don Sweete is the guardian of SNOMED CT’s clinical terminology and has worked relentlessly to unite stakeholders across the international digital health sector, building and maintaining critical relationships with its 43 global Members and partners. Don joined SNOMED International in 2014 and brings more than 30 years of industry leadership and executive management experience to his role.
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Dr Eza Hafeza
Director of Terminology Operations and Services
Regenstrief Institute

Panel: Interoperability is a team sport

2:05 PM - 2:50 PM

Biography

Eza Hafeza is the Director of Clinical Terminology Development and Operations at the Regenstrief Institute, LOINC and Health Data Standards. She manages the terminology development team and oversees end-to-end terminology development processes internally. She also leads national collaboration projects with CMS, NLM, ONC, and FDA and international participation with JIC, WHO-FIC, SNOMED, and HL7 In the last 15 years prior to Regenstrief, Eza owned and led a consulting firm that provided informatics solutions and guided implementations in the healthcare field to multiple enterprises. Physician (by trade), informaticist and subject matter expert in Clinical terminology, and in progress working on MS in healthcare informatics. Before the Regenstrief Institute, she held a leadership position as Director of Medical informatics at Elimu (previously PSMI) and Team Lead of Convergent Medical Terminology team (CMT) at Kaiser Permanente.
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Dr Ngai Tseung Cheung FAIDH
Head of Information Technology & Health Informatics
Hong Kong Hospital Authority

Panel: Interoperability is a team sport

2:05 PM - 2:50 PM

Biography

NT Cheung is the Head (IT & Health Informatics) of the Hospital Authority (HA). With the development of the Clinical Management System he has taken the 43 hospitals of the HA from a “green fields” situation to one where digital technology is ubiquitous in enabling better care. He also led the development of the territory-wide eHealth System integrating all parts of the healthcare ecosystem. His current work focuses on innovation and digital transformation to ensure the sustainability of healthcare in Hong Kong. NT has represented Hong Kong at the Global Health Digital Partnership since its inaugural Summit and is a fellow of both the IAHSI and AIDH.
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Dr Paula Otero
Professor
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires

Awards: Best Papers & Best Student Papers

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Biography

MD Scientific Program Co-Chair, & Professor Department of Health Informatics, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
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Dr Philip Scott
Programme Director
University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Awards: Best Papers & Best Student Papers

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Biography

Dr Philip Scott is Programme Director at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Chair of the British Computer Society’s health and care group and co-chair of the MCBK-UK steering group. He has worked on healthcare record structures and interoperability standards, clinical decision support and interdisciplinary theory in health informatics.
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Prof Yu-Chuan (Jack) Li
President
IMIA

Award presentation of the IMIA François Grémy Award of Excellence (the highest global honour in medical informatics)

3:10 PM - 3:15 PM

Presentation

Biography

Professor Yu-Chuan Jack Li, MD, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI, top 2% scientist in the world, is a pioneer of artificial intelligence in medicine and translational biomedical informatics. He has also been deeply involved in international collaborations for biomedical informatics development in Asia, America, Europe, and Africa.
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Bettina McMahon FAIDH
CEO
Healthdirect Australia

MedInfo Gavel hand over

3:15 PM - 3:20 PM

Biography

Bettina McMahon has held various CEO and executive roles in digital health and government organisations, and Board roles including for the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. She has delivered technology projects since the 1990s, primarily to implement government reform, and is passionate about bringing the benefits of better technology and data use to improve the lives of Australians.
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Prof Chien-Yeh Hsu
President
Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics

MedInfo Gavel hand over

3:15 PM - 3:20 PM

Biography

Chien-Yeh hsu, PhD is a Distinguished Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Information Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences. He is the President of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics, the Director of Taiwan: Standard and Interoperability Lab - Smart Healthcare center of Excellent Taiwan, SIL-Asia, Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), a member of Governing Council of HIMSS Asia Pacific, and former President of Taiwan eHealth Association. He is a past Director of Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics at Taipei Medical University, and a past editor-in-chief of The Journal of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics.
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Prof Farah Magrabi FAIDH
Professor
Macquarie University

Conference Close by the Conference Co-Chairs

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

Biography

Farah Magrabi is Professor of Health and Biomedical Informatics at Macquarie University. She is an Associate Editor of JAMIA and co-edited the focus issue on Health Informatics and Climate Change which lays out a blueprint for action to mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health in 2022.
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Dr Martin Seneviratne
Informatician
Google

Conference Close by the Conference Co-Chairs

3:20 PM - 3:30 PM

Biography

Dr Martin Seneviratne is a doctor-turned-data scientist, bridging the divide between technology and healthcare. As a Senior Clinical Scientist with Google Health in London, Dr Seneviratne is an emerging leader in the nascent field of digital health, working on mobile tools and machine learning to improve the quality and accessibility of care.

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