Panel | Addressing the workforce and skills gap: How do we attract people and skills to digital health?
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| Monday, October 17, 2022 |
| 4:35 PM - 5:35 PM |
| Pyrmont Theatre |
Overview
Facilitator: Greg Moran CHIA Strategy and Workforce Director, Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)
Panellists:
Dr Jen Bichel-Findlay FAIDH CHIA Vice-President Special Affairs, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
Richard Griffiths Executive Director for Workforce Planning & Development, NSW Health
Angela Schumacher Education Consultant - Pathways and Partnerships, Association of Independent Schools of NSW
Sally Duncan Chief Nursing & Midwifery Information Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health District
Jessica Ingham & Errin Conlin, Year 10 students from Loreto Normanhurst, NSW
Details
Workforce is a hot topic now as all industries, in particular health care, look for workers to meet the current and expected demands as we reorganise after the last two years of the pandemic. These workforce issues are placing significant pressure on the health care system and the way services are delivered. Digital health and the digital transformation of the health care sector have been fast-tracked to prominence as a practical and strategic way to create efficiencies, augment treatment and care, and create new ways of working in the delivery of health services. Do we have the available digital health and informatics skills and knowledge within health care to deliver on these changes?
This panel session will discuss the question “where are all these skilled workers coming from?” How do we attract people to digital health as a viable career with purpose and meaning in helping us improve and change the way healthcare is delivered in the 21st century? Importantly, in this session, we will ask for perspectives from educators and the younger generation of students. What is important to them? What would attract them to a career enabling and supporting digital health change and health care transformation?
Speaker
Greg Moran CHIA
Strategy & Workforce Director
Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)
Facilitator: Addressing the workforce and skills gap: How do we attract people and skills to digital health?
Biography
Greg Moran is the Director Strategy and Workforce Advancement for the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH). In this role he leads the AIDH workforce and industry certification programs, as well as delivering on the national digital health workforce program in partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency. The national program is working with the health sector key stakeholders to build foundational digital health workforce frameworks, professional and specialty resources and tools. Greg is a Certified Health Informatician of Australasia (CHIA).
Dr Jen Bichel-Findlay FAIDH CHIA
Vice-President Special Affairs
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)
Panellist: Addressing the workforce and skills gap: How do we attract people and skills to digital health?
Biography
Jen has been employed in the health service industry for nearly 50 years, originally as a registered nurse and most recently as a healthcare consultant. She is committed to supporting major health reform through digital health initiatives and has an interest in how data and information are used by clinicians at the point of care and how data analytics impacts on health outcomes and efficiency of health service delivery. Promoting the professionalisation of the digital health workforce is an important endeavour in the current health environment, given the increasing shortages of healthcare workers and the imminent pressures on healthcare systems worldwide. In her recent IMIA taskforce role reviewing the educational recommendations for biomedical and healthcare informatics, it was highly apparent that this sector requires essential skills and competencies that will create sustainable careers in the future.
Richard Griffiths
Executive Director - Workforce Planning & Talent Development
NSW Health
Panellist: Addressing the workforce and skills gap: How do we attract people and skills to digital health?
Biography
Richard Griffiths is the NSW Health Executive Director - Workforce Planning & Talent Development. As a part of his portfolio he is responsible for leading strategic workforce planning, culture strategy, and workforce performance and reporting across the health cluster.
Richard’s career has traversed the NSW Government public sector, having worked for over 25 years in public health entities, vocational education and law enforcement in senior people and culture roles. He is committed to steering culture change to help build a world class public service.
Angela Schumacher
Education Consultant - Pathways & Partnerships
Association of Independent Schools of NSW
Panellist: Addressing the workforce and skills gap: How do we attract people and skills to digital health?
Biography
Angela is an education consultant at the Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales. Her role centres around partnership brokerage and the development of partnership frameworks, strategy and innovative projects and programs. She is passionate about building the capabilities of educators to develop enduring, mutually beneficial relationships with external organisations. Angela believes that partnerships transform learning experiences, enhance student outcomes, enrich the professional growth of educators and contribute positively to the economic and social fabric of communities.
Twitter: @Aschu73
Sally Duncan
CNMIO
Northern Sydney LHD
Panellist: Addressing the workforce and skills gap: How do we attract people and skills to digital health?
Biography
With over 25 years working in clinical nursing and midwifery and 17 years working in clinical informatics my passion is a combination of the two: That is for integrated, secure and safe digital health platforms and for our clinicians to be trained and able to use them.
My aim is to keep the relationship between our patients, their carers and clinicians, at the forefront of any evidence based/human centred design, incorporating the best change management strategies and enhancing/enabling analytic and research capabilities.
My role as a CNMIO ensures that the nursing and midwifery profession have a representative voice on key strategic leadership groups and committees. Exciting times as we move further into a digital health world in New South Wales.
Twitter: @spud68508411
