My professional discipline and passion is in digital healthcare and health informatics – which I define as using information and technology to enhance delivery and improve healthcare outcomes at both an individual and population level. Increasingly this is being achieved through more effective and innovative use of data to gain new insights.

My professional discipline and passion is in digital healthcare and health informatics – which I define as using information and technology to enhance delivery and improve healthcare outcomes at both an individual and population level. Increasingly this is being achieved through more effective and innovative use of data to gain new insights.

I am an experienced clinician (former) and health IMT practitioner with a unique set of qualifications, and a unique exposure to broad aspects of the healthcare system in Australia. I also have extensive experience in designing, leading and running operational IMT functions in healthcare organizations. My chief interests are in the usability of technology in healthcare, data and analytics, software and system evaluation, technology ecosystems and the governance of IT and data.

Michael Draheim, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Oracle Health APAC, is responsible for strategic clinical executive oversight and leadership in adoption and transformation efforts. Michael delivered the first end to end digitalisation of a major public health service including Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia’s first adult HIMSS EMRAM Stage 6 public hospital.

Professor Karin Verspoor is Dean of the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Karin's research primarily focuses on the use of artificial intelligence methods to enable biological discovery and clinical decision support, through extraction of information from clinical texts and the biomedical literature and machine learning-based modelling. Karin held previous posts as Director of Health Technologies and Deputy Head of the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as the Scientific Director of Health and Life Sciences at NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is also the Victorian Node lead and co-founder of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Health.

As Deloitte’s AU National Healthcare Leader, Luke is committed to improving healthcare systems that deliver better outcomes and experiences for patients, clinicians, public and private organisations. Over the course of his 20+ year career in healthcare, Luke has dedicated himself to understanding client needs by creating the right incentives through funding models, developing healthcare pathways enabled by digital technology, responding to budget pressures, improving operational performances and interpreting the costs and affordability of care, using case-mix benchmarking and other workforce structures. Luke’s recent project work includes developing a roadmap to transform patient pathways, identifying opportunities for improved healthcare service quality, empowering consumers through consistent and sustainable workflow practices and exploring the drivers and responses to increased services pressures within Emergency departments.