#MEDINFO23 highlights: Allied health

1 | 9:00-10:30am Session 108 Co-design to improve the experience.

Monica Rayson an informatics pharmacist and Deputy Director Pharmacy at Canberra Health Services is passionate about digital systems and data to promote patient safety. Don’t miss Empowered Beyond podcaster and Matilda co-founder Dr Kevin Wernli physiotherapist. Session includes panel with COO of Therapy Focus Mai Welsh and senior physio Cloe Benz.

2 | 11:00am-12:30pm Session 125: Workshop: Investing in the digital health capabilities of the allied health professional sector.

Sharing insights from their own international experiences working across the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, the workshop leaders will make a case that allied health professionals are the untapped potential of digital health and build energy and leadership for advancing digitally ready, mature, and enabled AHPs. Chaired by Dr Mark Merolli FAIDH CHIA, from University of Melbourne Centre for Digital Transformation of Health.

3 | 1:15-2:45pm Session 140 : How to create good stories for serious games in healthcare: Deconstructing storytelling through Squid Game.

Cyberpharm futurist, researcher and certified metaverse expert Dr Kevin Yap is coming from Singapore to appear in this workshop from 1.15pm – 1.55pm, along with lecturer and bioinformatics leader Dr Michael Liem from La Trobe University.

4 | 11:00am-12:40pm Session 222: This global round up of digital health features

Dr Jay Patel, a dentist and assistant professor of health informatics at Temple University (USA) whose research interest is in clinical informatics to develop prediction models and learning health systems for early diagnosis and prevention. Dr Patel also appears on Tuesday July 11 at 10.40am in session 406 when he talks about electronic dental record data and periodontitis.

Join Session 409 and meet Kathleen Davey Clinical Psychologist and Chief Executive Officer of Social Science Translated, a from AutismCRC, which distributes the Secret Agent Society (SAS) program around the world and in 2020 led the rapid transformation of SAS into a digital health platform. Also managing a private practice that supports forensic matters related to autism (Decipher Zone), Kathleen has held a particular focus on autism for over 20 years.

Session 426 is on the theme of health data science and AI. Hear from Dr Andrew Amos an adult psychiatrist in North Queensland working on a project that uses machine learning to convert data from the MEDLINE database of published peer reviewed medical literature into objective evidence suitable for curriculum development.