21st HiNZ conference explores AI and digital transformation in health

NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

The future of AI in healthcare and the transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s health system will be explored at Digital Health Week NZ 2023.

Health Informatics NZ (HiNZ) is celebrating its 21st conference as part of Digital Health Week this November 27-30. With 1400 delegates expected at Claudelands in Hamilton, it is the largest digital health conference in the country.

HiNZ chief executive Tim Corbett says digital health is no longer something done ‘on the side’, but is interwoven into how we deliver our health and disability system for consumers.

“Data and digital tools are being used to tackle some of the very real issues facing our health system, such as access and workforce. HiNZ is proud to bring the leaders, thinkers and doers in this space together to share, learn and collaborate,” he says.

“Ultimately it’s all about whānau and Digital Health Week focuses on how to enable the health system of the future, that delivers equity and access for consumer and whānau.”

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He adds that HiNZ has given away five conference minbooths to startsups in the sector as a way to support innovation and new technology.

Director general of health Diana Sarfati and Te Whatu Ora chief data and digital Leigh Donoghue will open the conference on November 28 along with influential speaker Ngahihi o te ra Bidois.

Keynote speakers include doctors Raj Jena, oncologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Angela Lim, founder of Clearhead, speaking about the current and future uses of assistive AI in health.

Programme director Becky George says the conference will showcase the exciting and transformational work going on around the motu and globally, focused on integrating care, equity, data and workforce.

“There’s a huge diversity of topics and in-person connection is so important to sparking those ideas and collaborations that will drive transformation in health,” she says.

A lived experience panel where people talk about their experience of the health system as consumers and carers and how that could be enhanced by digital tools will be a particular highlight.

“As a sector we are all striving to achieve better outcomes for our consumers and hearing the whānau consumer voice is essential to achieving that,” George says.

Register now! Supersaver closes September 22.

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