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In-home health monitoring
Wireless remote monitoring devices have experienced an enormous increase in adoption in the last five years, and they are expected to be used by more and more people worldwide in the coming decade. They provide substantial benefit to people with chronic illness, reduced mobility and those recuperating following surgery, as well as their caregivers. They also assist individuals who are fitness aware and want to improve their overall health status.
This event hopes to present a variety of views on how in-home health monitoring contributes to improved health outcomes and enhanced independence.
Registration Fees
This event is free for HISA member and $25.00 for non-members. Please register via the above link to confirm your attendance.
Program
Hosts
The hosts for the night are two esteemed researchers from the School of Computing and Communications at the University of Technology Sydney – Associate Professor Valerie Gay and Dr Peter Leijdekkers. Valerie is a leading researcher focusing on the design of networked and mobile applications and Director of mHealth Lab at UTS, while Peter is the Technical Director of mHealth Lab and also the founder of the company myFitnessCompanion.com.
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Presenters
In-home monitoring
Sharryn Gannon Health Services Delivery Manager, Tunstall Australasia
As Health Services Delivery Manager, Sharryn is responsible for Tunstall’s clinical service offerings including the clinical triage and emergency monitoring centres and customer service delivery. A recognised leader in innovative health service delivery in Australia, Sharryn holds a Bachelor of Nursing together with post graduate qualifications in intensive therapy nursing and an Associate Diploma in Speech (Communications). She has also studied contact centre management. For over 14 years Sharryn has worked in technology enabled healthcare service delivery including operational management of a statewide 24-hour health contact centre. She has implemented new services and systems to support new models of care for clients, carers and funding bodies. Sharryn has a strong understanding of governance, risk and quality in service delivery including clinical and corporate risk and safety and quality in health care. Sharryn is a member of the Australian Disease Management Association, the Health Informatics Society of Australasia and the Australasian Telehealth Society. Sharryn serves her local community as a Justice of the Peace.
A trial of an integrated e-health solution for chronically ill patients
 Jon Hughes Founding Partner and Director, Smart Health Solutions
Jon is a founding partner and director of Smart Health Solutions. He has thirty years’ experience developing IT solutions for the public sector, the financial services sector, public transport, the hospitality industry, telecommunications companies and the health sector. He has extensive project management experience as well as a broad-based background in mainframe and PC systems, systems consulting, strategic planning, communications and information systems security. Jon has more than twenty-five years’ experience leading and managing the development and implementation of complex applications and systems in Australia and overseas. For the past fifteen years, Jon has led the development and implementation of secure, cross-practice and cross-jurisdiction e-health information management solutions. This has involved broad collaboration and consultation across the sector, including membership of NEHTA working groups, participation in Department of Health, NEHTA and Department of Human Services industry working groups and extensive consultation to client healthcare practices across Australia. Jon is also a past president of the Australian Medical Software Industry Association.
Lessons from ten years in the home health space
In his role at Intel and then Intel-GE Care Innovations George has experienced the hype and the reality of remote patient management. Active in the Continua Alliance, an industry body developing standards around home health technology from its inception, an active member of the IT in Aged Care council, and last year being voted into the IT in Aged Care Hall of Fame he will discuss the realities of home health and why, despite the hype, it is still struggling to become standard of care.
 Dr George Margelis Health and Life Sciences Lead Australia/New Zealand, Intel Corporation
George is a medical practitioner who has been deeply involved in technology for the last 30 years. Originally trained as an optometrist, he started tinkering with computers in 1981 when he bought his first PC, a Sinclair ZX80 before going back to medical school to complete his training at the University of Sydney. During that time he also started a software distribution company that grew to one of the largest direct software sales companies in Australia. He was CIO of a private hospital group as well as managing an innovative software development team that produced a personal health record for Australians 10 years before the PCEHR. He joined Intel in 2005, and then Intel-GE Care Innovations as they tried to radically transform healthcare, and has some amusing stories he can share about that time. In 2013 he was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney with the TeleHealth Research & Innovation Laboratory (THRIL), and is also currently a member of Ignition Labs a start up incubator in the health space as well as a number of advisory roles. He was appointed senior adviser to the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the peak international body in health information technology in February 2014. In July 2014 he was admitted into the IT in Aged Care (ITAC) Hall of Fame for his service to technology in aged care. He is a regular on the healthcare social media beat regularly blogging, tweeting, and commenting on healthcare trends. Over the last 3 decades he has been deeply involved in both the healthcare world and the technology world, and sees a natural fit between the two. However there also exists a natural tension between good care and good technology that needs to be addressed.
Location
This event will take place at the PUBLIC hospital. To get to Conference Room #2 Fred Street, enter via the main entrance foyer, go up the escalator and turn right.
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