The Biggest and Most Influential Healthcare Exhibition In The Southern Hemisphere
19-20 March 2025 | ICC, Sydney
Digital Health Day One: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Health Facilities Design & Development Day One: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Health Facilities Design & Development Day Two: Thursday,20 March 2025
Healthcare 2040 Day One: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Healthcare 2040 Day Two: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Aged Care Transformation Day One: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Aged Care Transformation Day Two: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Digital Health Day One: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Digital Health Day Two: Thursday, 20 March 2025
Care Reimagined Day One: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Care Reimagined Day Two: Thursday, 20 March 2025
11:00 am - 11:40 am
Keynote Panel: Connecting the Digital Ecosystem: Bridging Digital, Data, Technology & Cyber for Seamless Interoperability
Jayne Barclay -
National Director Healthcare Platforms,
St Vincent's Health Australia
Andrew Stripp - Chief Executive Officer, Epworth Health
David Hackshall - Chief Information Officer Australia, Sonic Healthcare
Paul Creech - Chief Program Officer, ADHA
An effective digital ecosystem needs collaboration across multiple internal teams, and it’s not uncommon to find that individual goals and metrics can cause friction to the system as a whole. In our keynote opening panel, we join senior leaders from across Executive, Digital, Data, Technology and Cyber to discuss how to align these critical functions for a unified digital landscape.
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Presentation: Reserved for Sponsor
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
International Keynote: Anytime, Anywhere: Creating A Full-service Virtual Hospital to Deliver World-class Care Instantly
Sherene Schlegel -
COO/CNO Virtual Care and Digital Health,
Providence St. Joseph Health
The convergence of physician shortages, efficient use of hospital beds and hybrid working models contributes to the growth of inpatient telemedicine. Creating a fully-stacked virtual hospital and telehealth programs addresses critical system constraints while boosting patient outcomes.
- Providing remote specialist care across 100+ hospitals, especially in rural areas, reducing patient transfers.
- Tackling physician shortages and burnout with remote consultations to extend specialist reach
- Optimising bed use and patient flow by reducing unnecessary admissions and ensuring timely, appropriate care
- Enabling faster interventions on emergency services such as tele-stroke and tele-ICU, reducing recovery times and improving outcomes
12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
Presentation: Australia’s Learning Healthcare System – How Digital and Data Tools and Capabilities are Reshaping the Patient Experience
Simon Cleverley -
Assistant Secretary of Digital Health Branch,
Australian Government Department of Health & Aged Care
- How national standards are shaping user experience, record portability and clinical workflows
- Why reforms to Australia’s national healthcare identifiers framework will help Australia realise a connected health and aged care system
- How the modernising of My Health Record will help shape a future data-led Australian healthcare system
- What is being done to ensure consumers are at the centre of their health and wellbeing journey
Simon Cleverley
Assistant Secretary of Digital Health BranchAustralian Government Department of Health & Aged Care
12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
Presentation: Brand-new Insights into NSW’s Single Digital Patient Record – A Secure and Holistic View of Patient Care
Dr Teresa Anderson -
Chief Executive, SDPR Implementation Authority,
NSW Health
- Sharing the vision and value of the NSW Health System’s Single Digital Patient Record
- Working closely with stakeholders and ensuring a sense of collective ownership across entire NSW healthcare ecosystem
- Enabling project success with robust data privacy, confidentiality, and governance
1:10 pm - 1:30 pm
Presentation: Reserved for Sponsor
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
Panel Discussion: Failure is Not an Option: Best Practices in Governance To Foster Digital Success
Dr. John Shephard -
Deputy Director Clinical Governance & Medical Services,
South Eastern Sydney LHD
Sue Cunningham - General Manager Strategy & Innovation, Monash Health
Dr. John Lambert - Chief Clinical Information Officer, NT Health
Since over 70% of all healthcare digital implementations fail, how can you guarantee your initiative will have the desired outcome? Robust digital governance is essential to ensure data security, regulatory compliance, and ethical innovation. Join our panellists as they share governance frameworks and processes that guide the use of digital health technologies such as telemedicine, and AI, and virtual care in clinical settings.
Dr. John Shephard
Deputy Director Clinical Governance & Medical ServicesSouth Eastern Sydney LHD
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm
Presentation: The CSIRO’s Patient Data Sharing Agreement: Creating Standards to Enhance Secure Interoperability
David Hansen -
CEO,
Australian e-Health Research Center (CSIRO)
The demand for sharing clinical data between practitioners, departments, even separate organisations and state health divisions is increasing. There are critical challenges to this posed by disparate data systems, silos and varying clinical terminologies. Join this session to hear show the CSIRO’s “Sparked” initiative is establishing an agreement for information sharing in healthcare, and how this will lay the groundwork for a more cohesive, connected and sustainable healthcare ecosystem.
2:30 pm - 3:10 pm
Keynote CISO Panel: Creating a Proactive Cyber Strategy Fit For An Ever-Evolving Threat Landscape
Varun Acharya -
Chief Information Security Officer,
Healthscope
Vijay Narayan - Chief Information Security Officer, Mercy Health Australia
Christopher Neal - Group Chief Information Security Officer, Ramsay Health Care
Simona Dimovski - NSW Cyber Ambassador, NSW Government
Danielle Pentony - Chief Information Security Officer, ADHA
- Embedding multiple lines of defense
- Cyber as a strategic function to enable digital transformation
- Ensuring agility in the strategy to adapt to new techniques and stay resilient
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm
Reserved for Sponsor
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Presentation: Preparing for Attack: Insights into Cyber Incident Planning and Response Strategy
Cyber attacks are an ever-present threat and effective incident planning and response are critical to minimise impacts when breaches do occur. Join our experts as they share key components of a robust cybersecurity incident response plan, including preparation, detection, containment, eradication, and recovery strategies.
3:50 pm - 4:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Controlling the Uncontrollable: Effective 3rd Party Cyber-Risk Management
River Nygryn -
Head of Cyber Security and Risk,
HammondCare
ROSHAN FERNANDES - Information Security and Risk Manager, Western Sydney LHD
- Regain control over your third-party risk environment
- Strengthen vendor relationships to collaborate on areas of concern
- Outline agile & complaint data security measures to handle an increased appetite for data sharing
- Creating a strong governance framework to mitigate risk to maximise consumer trust
