Tuesday, 2nd July, 2013

Ground Floor, AGSM Building, The University of New South Wales

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 9:45 Welcome Dr. Farah Magrabi, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Informatics, UNSW

9:45 – 10:30 Keynote address: The Dangerous Decade

Professor Enrico Coiera, Director, Centre for Health Informatics, UNSW

10:30 – 11:00 How does e-health pose risks to patient safety? Dr. Farah Magrabi, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Informatics, UNSW

11:00 – 11:15 Morning tea

11:15 – 12:15

Panel: Stories from the frontline Mr. David Roffe, CIO, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney

A/Prof. Andrew Georgiou, Centre for Health Systems Safety Research, UNSW Dr. Nathan Pinskier, Deputy Head-Clinical Unit, NEHTA

Ms. Ann Larkins, CIO Barwon Health

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch

1:15 – 1:35 e-health safety governance in Australia

Mr. Owen Torpy, Manager PCEHR Clinical Governance Program, ACSQHC

1:35 – 1:55 e-health safety governance overseas Dr. Farah Magrabi, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Informatics, UNSW

1:55 – 2:55

Panel: Where to from here? Strategies for e-health safety governance in Australia. Dr. Andrew P. Howard, CIO, Department of Health, Victoria.

Mr. Rodney Ecclestone, Manager-Clinical Safety Unit, NEHTA Mr. Owen Torpy, Manager PCEHR Clinical Governance Program, ACSQHC

Dr. Mukesh Haikerwal AO General Practitioner, Chair-Council of the World Medical Association

2:55 –3:30 Summary and close

NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in e-health Workshop 2013

Centre for Health Informatics

Making e-health safe

 

Speaker profiles

Professor Enrico Coiera is the Foundation Chair in Medical Informatics within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales. He is the Director of the Centre for Health Informatics, a part of the Australian Institute for Health Innovation. Professor Coiera’s research is concerned with advancing the safety and quality of health care through the careful use of information technology, and a deep understanding of systems and implementation science. Dr. Farah Magrabi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics within the Australian Institute for Health Innovation at the University of New South Wales. Farah leads the Centre’s research program on Patient Safety Informatics, focused on the safe and effective use of IT. Her group initiated, and leads, the analysis of critical incidents in e-health. She has analysed 1,385 IT incidents from Australia, the USA and England, and she is internationally recognised as a leader in this area. Mr. David Roffe is the Chief Information Officer at St Vincent’s & Mater Health Sydney. After completing his Electrical Engineering degree and Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering, David started his career as a research and development engineer specialising in Cardiology and Intensive Care. In 1997 David joined the Sisters of Charity Health Service which own the St. Vincent's Group of Public and Private hospitals. His role as Chief Information Officer was to integrate the three NSW based IT departments, manage a cultural change process and develop the organisations new IC&T vision and strategy. David's passion is to support clinicians to provide better practice patient care by the pragmatic application of engineering and computer science. The St. Vincent's Darlinghurst Campus has been using an electronic clinical information system for over 10 years and is a Wave 2 site for the Commonwealth PCEHR Project. Associate Professor Andrew Georgiou is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, part of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales. He has worked in a number of senior research and executive positions including as the UK NHS Assistant Director of Classifications (1995-1997) and Co-coordinator for the Coronary Heart Disease Programme for the Royal College of Physicians in London (1999 – 2002). Andrew is currently an Editorial Board member of the Open Medical Informatics Journal, the Journal of Pathology Informatics, Health Care Informatics Review and the International Journal of Medical Informatics. Dr. Nathan Pinskier is a Melbourne General Practitioner with an extensive involvement in primary health care, e-health, information technology and practice management. He is a director and co-owner of a Melbourne based group of general practices Medi7, the deputy head of the NEHTA clinical unit, the chair of the RACGP National Standing Committee for e-health and the medical director of the Australian Locum Medical Service. Ms. Ann Larkins is the CIO/Director of Information Services at Barwon Health. She has just completed her MBT (UNSW) adding to over 20 years' experience as a CCRN, moving then into patient flow and ICT projects and strategy in the health sector. Key to the success of the changes that have taken place at Barwon Health has been the iterative cycles of improvement driven collaboratively with clinicians and ICT over the past 12 years, with a shared vision of providing support and value for clinical practice and improved patient outcomes across the region. The next phases of work will see the progression to a true EMR across the organisation with evidence based decision support inbuilt by design, with increasing capability to share data seamlessly with patients and other treating clinicians in line with a strong consumer focus and the broad aims of the national e-health agenda. Mr. Owen Torpy is Manager of the PCEHR Clinical Governance Program at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Before coming to the Commission, Owen was Strategic Adviser to the National eHealth Transition Authority (NEHTA) during the development and build of the PCEHR project. Prior to this, Owen spent many years as a policy adviser to NSW and Australian Health Ministers.

   

 

Dr. Andrew P. Howard is the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Health Victoria. Included in his portfolio are National eHealth, the Department’s Information Management and ICT activities, a number of health services projects, and a shared services division for public acute and community health. Andrew sits on a range of state and national e-health committees and is the co-chair of the National Health CIO Forum. These bodies have been integral to Australia’s adoption of a national health records system. Andrew has previously been a medical practitioner in hospitals, a hospital manager within one of the major private healthcare groups and had a role with an IT multinational. Mr. Rodney Ecclestone is Manager of the Clinical Safety Unit at National eHealth Transition Authority. He has 25 years of health sector knowledge and experience across clinical practice, senior management in clinical/ biomedical research administration, public health policy and e-health. For the last 5 years he has held National e-health product management and clinical safety management roles. Dr. Mukesh Haikerwal is a practicing General Medical Practitioner, Commissioner to the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission and Professor in the School of Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently working with the National e-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) as the National Clinical Lead, leading a team of healthcare providers from multi disciplinary backgrounds, to assist in NEHTA’s liaison with the healthcare community and to provide input into the development of the NEHTA work program to deliver e-health for Australia. In 2011 Dr Haikerwal was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to medical administration, to the promotion of public health through leadership roles with professional organisations, particularly the Australian Medical Association (AMA) to the reform of the Australian health system through the optimisation of information technology, and as a general practitioner. He was the former head of the Federal AMA that is responsible for national policy development, lobbying with federal parliamentarians, co-ordinating activity across the AMA State entities and representing the AMA and its members nationally and internationally.