0001 Brown

0002 Carr

0003 Chute

"Data is our most valuable asset, is it treated accordingly? Quality care comes from quality information."

"Government data is the new oil. We must tap and refine it for all Australians."

"The promise and seduction of Big Data is alluring and in many instances practical. However, for clinical application, caution is indicated."

Stuart Brown

Senator the Hon Kim Carr

Dr Christopher G. Chute

Senior Consultant Data/Information Governance Lead
rxp Services Limited

Minister for Human Services
Commonwealth of Australia

Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Mayo Clinic (USA)

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As a Senior Consultant and Data Governance Lead at Zenith Solutions, Stuart Brown's passion is achieving better business and patient outcomes through improved information management. He's led internationally award winning projects and provides innovative solutions to both the public and private sector.

Read Bio Before entering parliament Senator Kim Carr worked as a school teacher and later as a policy adviser. Senator Carr was elected to the Senate in 1993 and to Labor's front bench in 1996, where he worked in education, schools and training. He also served as the shadow minister for science and research, which was soon joined by industry and innovation. Following Labor's election victory in 2007, he was sworn in as Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. From December 2011 to March 2012, he served as Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Defence Materiel. On 5 March 2012, Senator Carr was sworn in as Minister for Human Services. He brings to the portfolio a longstanding interest in economic and social change, education, innovation and industry policy.

Read Bio Dr. Chute received his undergraduate and medical training at Brown University, internal medicine residency at Dartmouth, and doctoral training in Epidemiology at Harvard. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Epidemiology, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He became founding Chair of Biomedical Informatics at Mayo in 1988, and is PI on a large portfolio of research. He is presently Chair, ISO Health Informatics Technical Committee (ISO TC215) and Chairs the World Health Organization (WHO) ICD-11 Revision. He also serves on the Health Information Technology Standards Committee for the Office of the National Coordinator in the US DHHS, and the HL7 Advisory Board.

0004 Fassett

0005 Haas

0006 Hossack

"The impact personalised medicine will have in transforming healthcare will depend not only on how well we gather and analyse big data, but also on how effectively we transmit the derivative insights out to clinicians and ultimately their patients."

"'Big data' doesn't require large volumes. The number of data sets, diversity and arrival rates are also challenges to data-driven science."

"Privacy is not the blocker. When observed it can actually harness the power of Big Data."

Dr Robert Fassett

Dr Laura Haas

Emma Hossack

Chief Medical Informatics Officer
Oracle

Fellow
IBM

CEO
Extensia

Read Bio As Oracle's CMIO Rob is responsible for channeling Oracle's healthcare R&D investments into the development of new products and services that will help providers and life sciences companies transform the practice of medicine.

Most recently Rob created, and then led the development and marketing of, Oracle's enterprise healthcare data warehousing and analytics suite of products that have been acquired by nearly 100 hospitals.

Before joining Oracle, Rob founded speech recognition software company that was acquired by Oracle. Rob was also a co-founder of a gene therapy startup and has served as a consultant and scientific advisor to several biotech companies. Rob is a primary care physician and graduate of UCLA School of Medicine. Rob received his undergraduate degree in molecular biology at UCSD.

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Laura Haas is an IBM Fellow, and Director of IBM Research's Accelerated Discovery Lab. Dr Haas joined IBM in 1981, and has led worldwide information management teams in both research and development. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an ACM Fellow, and Vice Chair of the board of the Computing Research Association.

Read Bio Emma is the CEO of Extensia and involved in a number of implementations of shared electronic health record systems across Australia. Emma's experience as a privacy lawyer and CEO of a medical software company gives her a unique perspective on the issues surrounding of personally controlled electronic health records. Emma is currently the President International Association of Privacy Professionals ANZ, a board member of Medical Software Industry of Australia and CIRCA and holds a LLM in privacy and ownership of shared electronic health records.

0007 Longhurst

0008 Madden

009 Stanley

"The time has come to shift from evidence-based practice to practice-based evidence."

"The advent of the personally controlled e-health Record, and the departments enterprise approach to data brings a range of new possibilities"

"Why are we not using existing data which measures health and other outcomes across all the population and which, when linked together, would enable huge and cost effective improvements to health and social services?"

Dr Christopher A. Longhurst

Paul Madden

Prof Fiona Stanley AC

Chief Medical Information Officer
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (USA)

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Australian Centre for Health Innovation

Deputy Secretary and Chief Information and Knowledge Officer,
Department of Health and Ageing

Distinguished Research Professor,
The University of Western Australia

Read Bio Dr Christopher Longhurst is a board-certified hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (USA) and a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Chris also has a graduate degree in medical informatics and holds an administrative appointment as the Chief Medical Information Officer at Packard Children's. In this role he has helped lead the hospital's transition to electronic medical records and developed that system as a diverse tool to enhance patient safety, efficiency, and quality of care.

Read Bio Mr Paul Madden was appointed to the position of Deputy Secretary and Chief Information and Knowledge Officer in 2010. His role includes the development and implementation of visions, strategies and plans for information, knowledge, technology, and performance management. Paul also provides strategic guidance and advice in relation to technical aspects for the various health reform projects including the Personally Controlled eHealth Record (PCEHR), Telehealth, ePrescribing and health system performance reporting.

Paul has also initiated projects to implement the enterprise information management strategy, and new enterprise IT governance and approval processes aimed at maximizing the department’s investment in information and technology.

Mr Madden is a member of the Departmental Executive Committee and is also the chair of the Departmental Information, Knowledge and Technology Committee which provides advice and makes recommendations to the Executive Committee on information, knowledge and technology strategies and plans. He also Chairs the Data Governance Council which provides advice and assists with the implementation of consistent information management policies and approaches.

Prior to joining the Department, Mr Madden was Program Director of the Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program led from the Australian Treasury from 2007 - 2010.

Read Bio Fiona Stanley AC is Patron of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Distinguished Research Professor, The University of Western Australia, Vice Chancellor's Fellow, The University of Melbourne and Director of the 2013 Festival of Ideas. Trained in epidemiology and public health, she established the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in 1990. She has over 300 publications, books and book chapters and was named Australian of the Year in 2003.