Movers and Shakers - July 2022 - Health Informatics New Zealand

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Movers and Shakers - July 2022

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

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NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

Alex Kemp
Alex Kemp has joined the Hauora team at PwC New Zealand as an associate director, working in health consultancy. Her addition to the team further strengthens the team’s expertise in clinical informatics, led by Karen Blake, with Alex being a board member for HiNZ and chair of CiLN, both roles she will continue.

Kemp had been the chief allied professions officer at Whanganui DHB since October 2019, working prior to this at Whakatane Hospital as allied health lead on her return to NZ after 14 years overseas.

Kemp says she is excited to join PwC to be part of the team, supporting others to reimagine health outcomes across the health and disability system. The organisation supports further learning and she will continue her doctoral studies, seeking to understand the journey from Tauiwi to Tangata Tiriti as a health leader.

Guy (Gideon) du Toit
Guy du Toit has joined Te Whatu Ora – Whanganui (formerly Whanganui DHB) as its first chief digital officer after a refresh of the ICT department with a rename to: Digital Services | Ratonga Matihiko.

Coming from Kerikeri in the Far North, du Toit brings many years of senior and executive ICT, data and digital experience to the role, including experience as a CIO / CDO in primary care.

When he is not leading his teams in digital services, du Toit is an award winning wood artist.

He says he is excited for the opportunities the new role presents and looks forward to leading an excellent team to help in improving, promoting and protecting the health outcomes of local residents and the communities they live in.

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Nancy Taneja
After six years as chief technology officer at THINK Hauora (mid-central primary health organisation), Nancy Taneja has joined Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand as the chief information security officer for primary health sector (P-CISO).

Taneja has worked extensively with primary care providers in the mid-central region including general practices, pharmacies and allied health professionals for technology and cybersecurity capability uplift initiatives.

She comes from a family of doctors and has always been passionate about healthcare and the role technology will increasingly play in our health and wellbeing.

“I am very pleased with the vision in creating this role and the cybersecurity roadmap. I hope to play my part in ensuring that the application of security around technology is feasible, relevant, understandable, and empowers healthcare providers to work confidently in the digital workplace,” she says.

Steve Mason
Steve Mason has been appointed acting group manager and CIO ICT at the Ministry of Health.

Mason has worked for the Ministry in senior ICT roles for the last three years. He is an experienced information communication technology manager with a demonstrated history of working in the health care industry.

Prior to moving into the health sector, he enjoyed a variety of senior IT positions in the energy industry.

Mason’s aspiration is to create a safe environment for every member of his team to grow, giving each of them the opportunities he had throughout his career. He enjoys leading teams to achieve their goals and coaching people to achieve their ambitions.

Vicki Quincey
Vicki Quincey has been appointed Te Whatu Ora – Waikato (formerly Waikato DHB) clinical informatics director. The role is to ensure partnership between clinicians, managers and the digital enablement team, delivering high quality equitable health care and service improvements enabled by technology.

Quincey joined Waikato in 2010 as an SMO in internal medicine and rheumatology. She developed an interest in digital health improvements being involved in several projects in the hospital and community services and consolidated her health informatics experience working for three years in the Midland Clinical Portal Programme, initially as a clinician lead and then as the clinical executive and regional clinical authority group chair.

“Health informatics feeds my passion for innovation, learning and change. Improving patient and staff outcomes using new technologies is an area of growth and I am excited to be involved,” Quincey says.

Abtin Ijadi Maghsoodi
Abtin Ijadi Maghsoodi has been appointed as lead data scientist at the department of intelligence and insights, Te Whatu Ora – Waikato (formerly Waikato DHB).

He has eight years’ experience in data science and machine learning, and is a PhD candidate in operations and supply chain management at Auckland University. He is an analytical, detail-oriented, and research-oriented data scientist with more than five years of research, development, and deployment experience in academic and non-academic organisations.

“We will help design and incubate the future, leveraging advanced analytics, and launching leading-edge programs using robust data science and artificial intelligence capabilities in order to maintain the continuous improvement programme for intelligence and insights by championing a strong customer service culture and working with teams to prioritise and resource the improvement programme”, Maghsoodi says.

Phil King
Phil King has joined the freshly created data & digital facilities technology team in Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ with a focus on supporting the implementation of technology into new public health facilities across New Zealand.

With such a significant, planned injection of funding into building new hospitals and major redevelopment of existing health facilities, King says it’s a terrific opportunity to be leading the new facilities technology team. He is delighted to combine his specialist knowledge in digital technologies and program management to support the local technology teams as well as the Health Infrastructure Unit to ensure New Zealand is delivering the best value for money digital public hospitals of the future.

King brings over 20 years of health sector technology programme and project experience, most recently as the program director for the deployment of an EMR system to a greenfield hospital in Queensland.

Sole Labbe-Hubbard
Sole Labbe-Hubbard has also joined the Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ facilities technology team, as a service design business analyst.

She brings along her ability to connect people, technology, and business process across multiple disciplines. Labbe-Hubbard has over 14 years' experience applying business and data analytic skills to solve complex challenges within the health system and is also a member of the Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO).

“I am excited to be part of the new team, helping to influence how technologies and data are used to improve New Zealanders experience and outcomes in our newest health facilities,” she says.

Craig White
Craig White has been appointed as Orion Health’s chief data officer. He has over 20 years of experience working in the healthcare industry, focusing on data and its application to complex healthcare problems.

White’s work in prior roles at ConcertAI, Precision Value and Health and IQVIA has included pharmaceutical product development projects, such as health economics and outcomes research, pricing and market access, clinical trial design and endpoint selection, cost-effectiveness and decision modelling, and various other strategic projects.

He has been involved in the design and implementation of several large healthcare datasets in the US and was a member of IQVIA’s Enterprise Data Council.

Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter is the executive director of the Orion Health Board.

She has worked off and on for Orion Health for the best part of 10 years in New Zealand and the UK and in many departments, including R&D, professional services, bid management, business operations and HR.

Porter has worked on many key projects during her time with the company, including project management of the Rhapsody and Clinical Portal R&D teams, several delivery projects within the UK NHS, as well as a period of time in business operations.

After a six-year break and four children, Lucy has rejoined Orion Health in an executive director capacity and is once again working across many parts of the business.