eHTV Webinar - Health Informatics New Zealand

eHTV Webinar

NZHIT’s Health Opportunities Report – what does this mean for the sector?

12.30pm to 1:30pm, Wednesday 19th May

NZHIT have recently launched their Health Opportunities Report: Hauora, Mauri Ora: Enabling a Healthier Aotearoa New Zealand. This webinar will give an overview of the key recommendations outlined in the report with panellists outlining what this means for the digital health sector.

HiNZ would like to thank NZHIT for sponsoring this webinar.

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About the Expert Panel

Webinar facilitated by Rebecca McBeth, HiNZ News Editor

Panel participants are:

Robyn Whittaker, Clinical Director of Innovation, Waitemata District Health Board
Will Reedy, CEO, Spark Health
Malcolm Pollock, CEO, Second Opinion
Ryl Jensen, General Manager, NZHIT

Robyn Whittaker
Clinical Director of Innovation
Waitemata District Health Board

Robyn Whittaker is a public health physician and Associate Professor at the National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland. She is Clinical Director of Innovation at Waitemata District Health Board where she leads the Leapfrog Programme of strategic projects focused on digitising hospital systems. Her research interests are in developing and evaluating mHealth interventions that use behaviour change theory and techniques to help support healthy behaviour change and self-management support for patient groups. She is an invited member of the WHO Digital Health Technical Advisory Committee, WHO Committee on Ethics and Governance in AI for Health, management team of the MedTech Centre of Research Excellence, National Telehealth Leadership Group, Ministry of Health’s Digital Investment Board and Business Design Council.

Will Reedy
CEO
Spark Health

As Spark Health CEO I work in the Business and Consumer Clusters (exec team) to focus on Health and Life Sciences (Health, Disability, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Health Insurance). Health and Life Sciences is the first true industry vertical capability established in Spark.

In this role I am responsible for:

Leading New Zealand's largest digital health services provider
Delivering Spark Health and Wellness Vision and Strategy
Leading the Spark Health Squad in providing input into health and life science industry solutions across Spark Group
Supporting key customers on their digital transformation journey to deliver better health outcomes
Maintaining and developing key relationships with customers and partners
Providing strategic advice to key customers
Working with the Leadership Squad to consider acquisition and investment opportunities

I also continue to work as a doctor one day a week at Counties Manukau District Health Board.

Malcolm Pollock
CEO
Second Opinion

Malcolm has worked in the digital health sector for more than 30 years. He was one of the four founders of Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ) and served on their Board for a number of years. He was a co-founder of the industry body, NZHIT, and served as Board member and subsequently Chair. He was for seven years, Director of the National Institute for Health Innovation at the University of Auckland. He also established and Chaired the National Telehealth Foundation (now the Telehealth Leadership Group). He researched and published new approaches to procurement and consulted on this subject to both the New Zealand and Queensland governments. He authored the recently launched NZHIT report ‘Enabling a Healthier Aotearoa New Zealand’.

Ryl Jensen
General Manager
NZHIT

Ryl Jensen has taken the new position of General Manager of NZHIT. Ryl comes with a background in IT having previously worked for the likes of IBM, EDS, and Merrill Lynch HSBC in London. She worked in Customer Relationship Management and Disaster Recovery, responsible for Service Level Agreements and Service Delivery Management. She has a strong customer focus and is passionate about health policy, research, and helping people. Ryl has been active in the Health and Disability Sector for a number of years, firstly being an advocate for women’s health and then later for digital interoperability. At a Government level she has written and contributed to health policy. She has a strong passion for the health sector, in particular digital health, and how it can be a key enabler to improve health outcomes and healthcare delivery. She is currently completing her final year of her Masters of Health at Victoria University, with a focus on health policy, planning, and systems structures. Ryl was one of three main contributors to NZHIT’s Health Opportunities Report Hauora, Mauri Ora: Enabling a Healthier Aotearoa New Zealand.

Webinar facilitator:

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.