The NSW healthcare ICT marketplace provides key commercial opportunities to ICT companies. It is a growing market feed by new Federal Government initiatives; by increasing demand for more and better healthcare services by Australians; by healthcare providers seeking healthcare improved efficiencies in ICT systems and systems integration; and by strong innovations in ehealth products and services.

AIIA believes information and communications technologies deliver better health outcomes to NSW citizens and businesses.

Be briefed to understand the ICT plans and strategies developed specifically for NSW Health organisations.

We have gathered speakers from the broad healthcare spectrum: from NSW Health; from hospitals; and from industry

Take this Opportunity

The NSW Health budget has made references to several upgrades to existing projects that include ICT industry involvement. Whether it is infrastructure upgrades or improving the financial management system, it’s our intention through this event to make sure that your company is armed with the right information to make the most out of this opportunity.

Key Event Take Homes:
• Prepare & focus your company for business in the healthcare industry: with ever increasing demand of an aging population with high expectation and relative decline is healthcare workers – ICT is seen as the answer and industry – how do you access this potential opportunity?
• Gain Insight into the plans and strategies of leading NSW health organisations.
• ICT delivers innovation to this industry – find out how ICT will be critical to the future of healthcare in Australia.
• Uncover huge opportunities at a time when healthcare reform and eHealth in particular are entering the national agenda
• Understand the Point of Care Clinical Systems and Electronic Medical Records in Australia . What lessons can we learn from the problematic top down approaches used oversees?
• Assess integration and interoperability. Now more than ever doctors and nurses and pharmacist need access to real-time up to date patient health data at the bedside or in the consulting room (at the point of care). This information must be moved across health facilities and services and made available across the whole health care spectrum including across jurisdictions and public to private organisations. Can one provider do it all or is system integration and interoperability amongst best of breed systems the way forward?

Event Format
The event will play host to three key industry speakers, whose knowledge and expertise regarding the health industry is an invaluable source of intelligence to unleash your company’s opportunities. Each speaker will deliver a ten minute presentation followed by an interactive Q&A session from the moderator and audience.

Speakers

CIO Moderator: Andrew James, AIIA NSW Branch Chairman

Bill Vargas, CIO The Children’s Hospital of Westmead

Dr Jean Evans, CIO Information Services Division, South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service

Stephen Critchlow, Executive Chairman, Ascribe Ltd

Gold Sponsor
nehta

Silver Sponsor
Information Systems Group

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