Leigh Donoghue
Chief Data & Digital
Te Whatu Ora

As Chief Data & Digital at Te Whatu Ora, Leigh leads the implementation of digital technology and data to improve access to care for people who need it most, enhance Te Whatu Ora people’s experience of work, and support Te Whatu Ora's strategic aims and key system shifts. He works in close partnership with Te Aka Whai Ora – Māori Health Authority to ensure the principles of Te Tiriti and Māori data sovereignty are put into practice and opportunities for equity through digital means are enabled.

The Chief Data and Digital role is critically important in bringing about the system shifts required to achieve the aims of the health reforms, in particular developing a greater use of digital services to provide more care in homes and communities.

Leigh brings significant experience in digital health leadership, including leading complex, multi-year change programmes across diverse teams and delivery challenges.

He joined Te Whatu Ora in May from Accenture in Australia, a global professional services company, where he was the Health Industry Lead for Australia and New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific region.

Leigh holds a M. Commerce (Hons), University of New South Wales, and a B. Engineering (Hons), University of Tasmania.

Grahame Grieve
FHIR Product Manager
HL7 International

Grahame Grieve leads a global community that creates IT solutions to improve people’s healthcare. As “the Father of FHIR”, Grahame architected healthcare’s best shot at data interoperability when he founded HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), the leading healthcare data exchange standard of the future. Grahame is the FHIR Product Director at HL7 and project lead of the FHIR Core Team. In that role, he is responsible for the growth and governance of the community that develops the FHIR specification, managing the corporate and government relationships around it, and acting as the lead editor for the specification.

Grahame travels around the world physically and virtually to advise governments, vendors and care providers about all aspects of interoperability. He was on the list of 15 Health IT Standards and Interoperability Rockstars to Know and has won many awards for his contributions to the digital health community.

Alastair Kenworthy
Chief Standards Advisor, Data & Digital
Te Whatu Ora

Alastair works for Te Whatu Ora as the national lead for data and digital standards and, in an acting role, data governance. He publishes an interoperability roadmap that sets the direction for a more joined-up health system that is easy for people to use and improves health equity. In his role, Alastair chairs the Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO) committee and convenes the ISO/TC 215 New Zealand subcommittee.

Alastair represents New Zealand on the SNOMED International General Assembly and is a past chair of the SNOMED International Member Forum. He is currently the national representative on the interoperability workstream of the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP) and his present focus is the International Patient Summary (IPS), its further development through ISO, SNOMED International and GDHP, and its adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Kate Ebrill
Board Member, HL7 Australia | Lead- Interoperability Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO

Kate is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the health care industry. She is skilled in government procurement, digital strategy, healthcare information technology (HIT), program development, change management and delivery. Kate is a strong business development professional with post graduate qualifications in Public Health from University of Sydney.

Brian Biggs
Director, Customer Relations & Sales NZ, InterSystems

Brian Biggs is Director, Customer Relations and Sales, New Zealand for InterSystems, a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve the most critical scalability, interoperability and speed problems. Based in Auckland, Biggs leads the company’s New Zealand operations, providing local resources to a growing customer base and ensuring that InterSystems is responsive to their needs.

Biggs has a technology career spanning over 15 years. He has spent most of the last decade leading regional and global delivery teams to deliver complex technology programs to healthcare providers in both advanced and emerging economies. He was Services Director, New Zealand and later VP Services, Asia Pacific and Chief Operating Officer, Hospitals for Orion Health before working as Chief Operating Officer for New Zealand digital payments company, Centrapay.

Biggs holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Management and Commercial Law from The University of Auckland and in 2007 was a member of the Plowman Craven professional cycling team in Europe.

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Rebecca McBeth
HiNZ News Editor

Rebecca McBeth joined the HiNZ team as editor of eHealthNews.nz in January 2018. Rebecca was previously news editor at Digital Health Intelligence in London and prior to that, was the senior health reporter at The Christchurch Press, where she won a NZ Canon Media Award and a NZ Reporting Diversity award. Based in Auckland, she is committed to communicating news, experience and knowledge throughout New Zealand’s data and digital health sector.