CiLN Award finalist - Steve Earnshaw

PROFILE – Steve Earnshaw, Chief Clinical Innovation Officer, 3DHB ICT

Judge’s comment

"Steve has demonstrated significant clinical leadership in his recent work across CCDHB and across the 3DHBs.  He has grown a talented and skilled clinical informatics team that is realising benefits across the organisation and directly to the consumer. His strategic vision and leadership are evident in local, regional and national programme involvement."

Nominator quote

"Steve has a passion for clinical informatics and desire to see clinical users be at the forefront of digital technologies in health. He has provided me and my team with invaluable leadership, advice and support as we develop our roles and begin to network with clinical informatics colleagues regionally and nationally."

Profile

Steve has been a tireless advocate for clinical informatics at a local, regional and national level. He has worked hard to develop a strong presence for clinical informatics in discussions around digital health, for the inclusion and importance of the clinical in clinical informatics and for the ongoing development and voice of clinical informaticians nationally. 

He has developed a strong multidisciplinary clinical informatics team in the Wellington region, is working towards supporting a regional clinical informatics network and is representing clinical informatics in high level strategic discussions. 

A user-centric approach

Steve has a passion for more clinical involvement in decision making around digital health and this has led to him working towards the positioning of clinical informatics in the Wellington region as central to a more user-centric approach to digital health technologies.

Steve's development of a clinical informatics team is leading to better engagement with clinical users for digital health in the Wellington region. This is still developing and Steve has been working hard at the local level to help redesign ICT work to be more user centred. 

He has also been working to develop emerging technologies in health by advocating for an emerging technology framework that allows the New Zealand health sector to look forward towards new technologies that can help leapfrog its digital maturity and provide really positive gains for clinicians and patients. 

Steve has been a positive voice on CiLN advocating for realistic, rapid and positive engagement from clinical informaticians in the development of the new Health NZ. 

Clinical leadership

Steve has been a leader in CiLN, in the regional clinical informatics leadership group and locally on the ELT for the 3 Wellington DHBs.

He has a passion for clinical informatics and desire to see clinical users be at the forefront of digital technologies in health. He has led the development on user centred business continuity framework for the region, as well as helping lead the regional road mapping work.

Steve has also led the development of an emerging technology framework for the 3DHBs which they are looking to share nationally. 

Sharing knowledge

Steve has a wealth of expertise in the clinical informatics sphere and freely shares this knowledge and expertise with the team to educate, inform and support people’s developing knowledge and skills. 

He is happy to share his opinions, reasoning and expertise, but equally happy to listen to others and change his views accordingly. He has a breadth of experience, working on new and existing technologies in previous roles in the health system. He has worked with existing knowledge, gained more and advocated for the development of expertise in others.

Steve operates equally at local, regional strategic and national levels, translating between the two to make sure the message is appropriate, understood and bringing people along with him. 

This profile is an edited version of the nomination/s.

Vote for the winner of the 2021 Clinical Informatics Leadership Award here.

Read more CiLN Award 2021 finalist profiles:

Karl Cole
Ruth Large

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