eHealth Webinar - Health Informatics New Zealand

eHealth Webinar

Social Determinants of Health - a systems thinking approach

12:30pm to 1:30pm, Wednesday 25th May

Research exploring a holistic view of health outcomes in our communities suggests around 20 percent is attributable to care provided by the health system. The remaining 80 percent sits outside of the health system and together are called the ‘social determinants of health’.

The World Health Organisation identifies ten focus areas that contribute to these social determinants of health. This webinar focuses on one of these areas: water and its impact on people’s health and the health system. Panellists will also provide a Te Ao Māori lens and wider look at how social determinants impact Māori health outcomes.

This will be an exciting opportunity to explore and expand your thinking on holistic health outcomes and how data and digital are informing thinking in other areas that are connected to health.

HiNZ would like to thank Beca for sponsoring this webinar.

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About the Expert Panel

Webinar facilitated by Rebecca McBeth, HiNZ News Editor.

Panel participants are:

Fiona Pimm, Chairperson, Te Runanga o Arowhenua
Tania Walsh, Business Director, Beca
Michael Howden, Data and Insights Manager, Taumata Arowai

Fiona Pimm

Fiona Pimm
Chairperson
Te Runanga o Arowhenua

Fiona started her career as an MRT training in Christchurch Hospital. She transitioned to health management in primary care as the first employee of Pegasus Medical Group IPA. Fiona continued working in health management with a Ngāi Tahu focus on Māori health for a decade before moving across to DHB Management in Canterbury and South Canterbury.

Today Fiona is a professional director. Her roles include Chair for Whai Rawa Fund Limited, Careerforce ITO, Restorative Elective Surgical Services and NZ Blood & Organ Service; a Board member on Canterbury DHB and the Māori Health Authority; and the representative for Arowhenua (her rūnaka) on the Te Runanga o Ngāi Tahu Board.

Fiona wants to see greater health improvement for every health dollar spent. Such a metric requires robust data collection, analysis and interpretation. Her ideal data vision is to see health data integrated with data from other wellbeing services to enable wholistic assessment of whānau wellbeing and to be able to identify where investment will have the greatest overall benefit for each whānau.

Tania Walsh

Tania Walsh
Business Director
Beca

Tania is an Enterprise and Digital Transformation professional with a background in Technology and Nursing. Tania is passionate about helping businesses to utilise digital solutions that improve, optimise, and sustain the physical assets serving our communities every day. Applying her knowledge of information technology with first-hand health sector experience, Tania brings a unique perspective on the social determinants of health and the role of data in improving health outcomes.

Michael Howden
Data and Insights Manager
Taumata Arowai

Michael has 20 years of international experience using data to solve complex problems in the water, environmental, humanitarian, and agricultural sectors. Through studies across regulation and systems thinking, he recognises the impact that can be achieved through diverse ecosystems of organisations working together, the barriers to collaboration, and the opportunity that data can offer. At Taumata Arowai, Michael is working with multiple different organisations to better inform drinking water regulation and provide evidence to help lift the water sector’s performance.

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.