Leigh Donoghue
Chief Data & Digital
Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

As Chief Data & Digital at Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora, Leigh leads the implementation of digital technology and data to improve access to care for people who need it most, enhance Health NZ people’s experience of work, and support Health NZ’s strategic aims and key system shifts. He ensures that the principles of Te Tiriti and Māori data governance 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 better health outcomes for all New Zealanders.

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

He joined Health New Zealand - 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.

Alastair Kenworthy
Group Manager Data & Digital Standards
Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

Alastair works for Health NZ as the lead for data and digital standards. He publishes an interoperability roadmap along with supporting standards and tools for a more joined-up health system. In his role, Alastair chairs the Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO) committee, convenes the ISO/TC 215 Health informatics national subcommittee and runs the SNOMED national release centre.

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). His present focus is on driving adoption of SNOMED, FHIR and International Patient Summary standards.

Anna-Marie Scroggins
Product Manager, Sector Digital Channels
Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

Anna-Marie is a registered nurse with 10+ years industry experience leading health IT projects and service change. She has a Masters in Health Informatics with skills and experience in UX, clinical data standards, app development, innovation, facilitation, mentorship, testing, change and training.

Anna-Marie currently works at a product manager – sector digital channels for Health New Zealand, Te Whatu Ora and her product portfolio includes the New Zealand Patient Summary (both the data layer and web app); and FHIR integrations from the national Cervical Screening Register.

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.

Matt Valentine
Clinical Informatics Director,  Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora

Matt is an Emergency Medicine specialist based in the Bay of Plenty. Although still doing some clinical work there, his main role is as the Clinical Informatics Director – Information Flow for Data & Digital Health New Zealand. In this role his main responsibilities are to drive the adoption and use of digital health standards in New Zealand from a clinical viewpoint, to ensure that all clinicians and health consumers have all the appropriate information that they need to make health decisions.

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.

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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.