Australia and Europe – Digital Health Transformation, Agility & Resilience

RMIT’s ‘A Healthier Start’, an ECP Post COVID-19 Initiative in collaboration with the European Connected Health Alliance (ECHAlliance) and the Melbourne Digital Health Ecosystem invite you to an online event, Australia and Europe – Digital Health Transformation, Agility and Resilience.

Together, these organisations will analyse the digital transformation, agility and resilience of healthcare systems from a national and global perspective.

Making the case for digital health and telehealth 

As the world continues to fight COVID-19 and a new normal is emerging, we are seeing many innovations within health ecosystems. Traditional healthcare is looking to telehealth as a cost-effective, secure and safe way to provide care for patients in need. Can telehealth provide innovative solutions with agility in this evolving new world?

Our speakers include:

• Andy Bleaden, Director, Ecosystems and Membership, ECHAlliance (European Connected Health Alliance), UK
• Bronwyn Le Grice,  Director, CEO and Founder, ANDHealth, Australia 
• Prof Aleks Subic, Deputy Vice Chancellor, College of Science, Engineering & Health and Vice President, Digital Innovation, Australia 
• Alice King, Telehealth Program Manager, Victoria Community of Practice, Barwon Health, Australia
• Dr Margaret Whoriskey, MBE, Director, Technology Enabled Care, Scottish Government, UK whose talk will be joined by
• Clare Morrison, National Near Me Lead, Technology Enabled Care Programme, Scottish Government, UK

This event will be opened by Prof Calum Drummond, AO Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research & Innovation and Vice-President, RMIT University and

Moderated by Prof Magdalena Plebanski, Director, Biomedical & Health Innovation Enabling Capability Platform (BHI ECP)

Event Details

When: Thursday 3 September 2020

What Time: 5.00pm – 6.30pm AEST, 8.00am – 9.30am BST

Where: Online with MS Teams