Carey Campbell

Clinical Director: NZ/ Australia
Orion Health

With 30+ years of health practice under her belt, Carey is proud to be a NZ registered nurse who has worked in both the NZ public and private sector. Her current trans-Tasman role with Orion Health – a global health IT software company founded in NZ – uses her clinical and professional skills to ensure technology solutions are fit for purpose with a focus on enhancing patient and clinician experience, health equity, practice efficiency and better health outcomes. Being an active member of Orion Health’s global clinical governance leadership team ensures international practice and innovation within her toolkit to enhance and inform the Australasian experience (and vice versa, as is often the case!).

Her previous experience as the Director of Nursing of a network of private surgical hospitals saw her leading the digital and clinical transformation needed to move from a fully paper clinical record to a mobile-responsive digital care record used by clinicians every day for every patient.

Carey is excited and honoured to be accepted as a Fellow of Health Informatics New Zealand and work alongside like-minded health professionals to further raise the clinical profile and its importance within the digital health community.

Dr Charlene Tan-Smith

Allied Health Clinical Informatics Consultant Manager
Canterbury Waitaha & West Coast Te Tai o Putini, Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora

Charlene is the Canterbury and West Coast Allied Health Informatics Consultant Manager, ketogenic practitioner and co-founder of KetoSuite, a ketogenic startup med-tech company.

She has been a registered dietitian since 2005, working in private and public practice, mainly at Christchurch Public Hospital, Canterbury. She has specialised in paediatrics since 2006 and was previously a nutritionist for Child Health Services in the Ministry of Health, Singapore. Charlene is the Ketogenic Dietitian Consultant to the South Island Ketogenic Service in Christchurch Hospital. She treats children with refractory epilepsy in the lower North Island regions for Health New Zealand.

She is a Fellow of HiNZ (FHiNZ), co-chair of the NAHSTIG Council, Calderdale Framework Facilitator and Workforce Career Assessor. Charlene’s doctorate studies, doctorate of professional practice (DProfPrac), investigated all aspects of ketogenic practice and specifically used a theoretical framework of acceptability to measure patient acceptability of technology used to deliver Medicalised Ketogenic Therapy.

Janine Bycroft

Founder, Editor-in-Chief
Healthify

Dr. Janine Bycroft is a specialist GP, founder, and CEO of the award-winning Health Navigator Charitable Trust, home to Healthify, New Zealand’s leading health information website.

With a Master’s in Public Health, Janine has been at the forefront of digital health for over 30 years. Her leadership has seen the creation of critical resources like the NZ Health App Library, interactive health and paediatric dosing calculators, WOVEN (Whanau Voice of Experience Network) and plain language consumer-focused resources earning an ACC Patient Safety Award in 2021.

Recognized as a Distinguished Fellow by the RNZCGP in 2022, Janine continues to champion advancing digital health, AI, and Open Notes/Connected Notes and shared care planning as key enablers to transform healthcare. Her work aims to enhance access, flexibility, and whānau self-care skills, improving outcomes for individuals and communities alike.

John Ashley

Head of Clinical and Patient Portfolio
Southern Cross Healthcare

John leads the digital services portfolio that provides clinical solutions to Southern Cross Healthcare’s 2,500 clinical users (including nurses, medical specialists and allied health professionals) to deliver quality care for many thousands of New Zealanders.

An experienced digital health professional, he served as board member and deputy chair for Health Informatics New Zealand (HiNZ), and is an active member of the Digital Health Association, formerly as the chair of the virtual health industry group.

John’s career spans across the health and disability sector, including primary, secondary, community and aged care. He is passionate about the use of technology and the application of data interoperability and standards to improve patient care and enhance people’s lives.

Samuel Wong

Manager, Consumer Identity and Access
Te Whatu Ora

Samuel aspires to enable personal health information to be accessible, insightful and structured appropriately to empower users to make the best decisions possible. With a clinical-orientated diverse career of 25+ years which spans data and leadership roles in hospitals, primary care, ambulance, crown agencies and the digital health industry; he currently manages the next evolution of New Zealand's largest digital health identity platform, My Health Account. He is passionate about solving complex health accessibility, engagement and clinical decision support challenges, using design-led and DataOps approaches.

As an experienced health professional, Samuel was a former board member of HiNZ, former chair of the Digital Health Association's Emerging Personalised Healthcare Special interest group; current co-chair of NZ Telehealth Forum's Data Standard working group, and member of ISO/TC 215 Health Informatics NZ Mirror Committee.

He is honoured to be receiving the recognition as a Fellow of Health Informatics New Zealand, and to raise the profile of health informatics across the wider Aotearoa NZ health ecosystem.