SESSION 111: <br/>Digital professionalism

MedInfo 11
Saturday, July 8, 2023
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
C3.3

Overview

Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference
C3.3


Details

This session will end with a panel discussion.


Speaker

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A/Prof Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins
Health Researcher
Monash University

Session chair

Biography

A/Professor Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins leads Digital Health, Climate Change and Sustainable Healthcare research group at Monash University with a focus on digital health support of healthcare’s climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts.
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Dr Helen Almond FAIDH
Senior Lecturer
University of Tasmania

Session chair

Biography

Helen is a senior lecturer and researcher at the University of Tasmania's Australian Institute of Health Service Management; holds an adjunct research position at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne; and is an invited member of the Australian Digital Health Agency's clinical governance committee. She is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and the vice chair of their Nursing and Midwifery informatics community of practice. Internationally, Helen represents nursing Informatics for Australia at The International Medical Informatics Association.
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Dr Dawn Dowding
Professor in Clinical Decision Making
University of Manchester

Digital health and professionalism: An international perspective

9:15 AM - 9:35 AM

Presentation

Biography

I am Professor in Clinical Decision Making, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. I am a health services researcher and nurse with expertise in the field of health care decision-making and nursing informatics. My research interests include the development and evaluation of decision support tools, and the application of Health Information Technology for assisting decision making in practice. Prior to my appointment at Manchester, I was Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. I am currently co-Chair of the eHealth forum at the Royal College of Nursing, and am a Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (UK) and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Dr Carey Mather
Senior Lecturer
University of Tasmania

Digital professionalism: How nurses influence and lead healthcare workforce transformation

9:35 AM - 9:50 AM

Biography

Through her endeavours as a clinician, researcher and educator Dr Carey Mather leads a transformative approach to healthcare. She is a registered nurse and senior lecturer at the Australian Institute of Health Service Management at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Carey has worked within the health sector for over 30 years and focuses on topics and issues that impact ‘point of care’. Her research interests include workforce capability, digital health, person-centredness and scholarship of learning and teaching. Her work on digital professionalism contributed to the development of the National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Capability Framework. Carey has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal publications as well as book chapters and position statements. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and was the inaugural Policy Fellow at the Australian College of Nursing Foundation.
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Dr Alana Delaforce
Senior Implementation Scientist
Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Enablers and barriers to the implementation of a falls prevention platform

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM

Presentation

Biography

Dr Delaforce has a clinical background in perioperative nursing and has worked at multiple health facilities as a scrub/scout nurse. Alana is passionate about improving health care directly through her research activity and also through university appointments, supporting the next generation of nurses to implement new technology and practice enhancements.

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