Data & Analytics in Healthcare schedule

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• Exploring the challenges and strategies for translating AI developments into clinical practice
• Insights on successful deployment and adoption of AI in healthcare institutions
• Emphasising the importance of collaboration between AI developers and healthcare professionals

• Charting a Path: Data access, sovereignty, and empowerment for Indigenous communities
• Building Empowerment: The Journey to an Indigenous Data Sovereignty Framework
• Interpreting Data: Crafting meaningful stories to amplifying Indigenous health narratives

• Vision for an AI platform resembling an App Store for clinical applications
• Discussing the benefits of a unified platform for AI integration into existing workflows
• Challenges, feasibility, and potential impact of creating an AI ecosystem for healthcare professionals

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• Impact of Generative AI on the future data roadmap for healthcare
• Putting principles into practice to deliver on the data ethics promise in healthcare
• The ethical question of AI – can discrimination be corrected?

Moderator:

Associate Professor Michael Franco | Executive Director Digital Health | Monash Health

Panellist:

Professor Jane M Andrews | Professor | Chrohn's Colitis Cure and Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN)  

Peter Markey | Assistant Director – Advanced Analytics | Australian  Department of Health and Aged Care

Anoushka Gungadin | Executive Vice-President ANZ | HeraMED

Australia’s electronic medical records (eMRs) hold a wealth of structured and unstructured data, including clinical notes, diagnoses, and procedures, that describe the patient and inform patient care beyond the structured, classified administrative record.

This session explores the benefits of applying AI-driven language models to eMRs, and will cover:

• Can large language models be trained on medical data?
• How large language models can be used to provide insight to health care system administrators beyond what’s coded in administrative datasets
• Challenges of implementing large language models to eMRs

• How software-based technologies can change the game for patients

• GenAI stock-take – We are we now and what does the next 6 months look like for GenAi in healthcare?
• How can we leverage AI to automate and streamline business operations?
• How can we set ourselves up for data governance success?
• Where do we start to build a strategy to maximize the use of AI & ML?

Moderator: 

Assoc Prof Tam C. Nguyen | Deputy Director of Research | St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne

Panellist:

Noel Toal | Chief Information Officer | DPV Health

Lily Liu | Director Digital Health | Western Health

Wendy Chapman | Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health | University of Melbourne

Jayne Barclay | Executive Director Digital Innovation/CIO | The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital

• Role of data analytics in shaping healthcare policies and workforce strategies
• AI's role in hospital case planning, budget allocation, access to healthcare, and private health insurance fee management
• Integration of data analytics in workforce planning and strategic decision-making

• Importance of data culture and its impact on business and patient care outcomes
• Navigating challenges in data infrastructure and workforce
• Identifying the strain on infrastructure and workforce in the AI and data sector
• Discussing potential solutions and strategies to overcome challenges in resourcing and talent acquisition

Moderator:

Kathryn Gulifa | General Manager - Data Analytics | HBF Health Limited

Panellists:

Revital Rosenberg | Chief Data Officer | Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Peter Markey | Assistant Director – Advanced Analytics | Australian Department of Health and Aged Care

Milica Ng | Senior Director, Head Data Science | CSL Global

• Partnering with researchers and internal data stakeholders to build capabilities and democratise data
• Establishing a series of projects to build platform and analytics capability
• Using clinical trials to find patients better using NLP ML

• Understanding the role of radiomics and how AI extracts valuable insights from numerical imaging data
• Predictive analytics in treatment planning, disease risk assessment, and patient outcomes prediction
• Exploring the potential for radiomics-driven AI solutions in clinical decision-making

• Emphasising the importance of cross-training and specialisation in digital health
• Highlighting successful collaborations between universities, partners, and healthcare professionals
• Establishing data quality, security, and governance frameworks

Moderator:

David Rankin | Director Clinical Governance and Informatics | Cabrini HEALTH

Panellist:

Elizabeth Koff | Managing Director | Telstra Health

Nicole Hosking | Operations Director, Radiology & MIT | Austin Health

Wendy Chapman | Director of the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health, University of Melbourne

Niroshan Sathiyamoorthy | Head of Data & Analytics | Australian Unity

• Leveraging genomics data for personalised treatment and improved healthcare outcomes

• Empowering patient care and patient health understanding through EMR
• Getting the investment right: Ensuring EMR delivers on the needs of patients and the promises of an integrated health view
• Making healthcare visibility a standard and expectation for patients

• Unpacking the National Healthcare Interoperability Plan
• Practical steps for achieving interoperability goals across the healthcare system
• Addressing the challenges of data aggregation and interoperability in healthcare analytics
• Initiatives and organisations working on common data model standards

Moderator:

Nicole Hosking | Operations Director, Radiology & MIT | Austin Health

Panellists:

Lily Liu | Director Digital Health | Western Health

Professor Jane M Andrews | Professor | Chrohn's Colitis Cure and Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN)  

Dr Kit Huckvale | Validation Lead | Centre for Digital Transformation of Health

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Dr Omar Dabash | Commercialisation Lead and Knowledge Broker | Centre for Digital Transformation of Health