I Am Not Sure The HIMSS Conference In Early November Will Be Of Much Value Or Interest In Australia.

This description arrived a day or so ago:

The 12th Annual HIMSS AsiaPac18 Conference & Exhibition is coming to Brisbane Australia!

The event will gather 1,500+ of the brightest in health and health IT across APAC and the globe: healthcare providers, C-suite leaders, government officials and solution providers. Attend and learn from the best practices, case studies and expert insights on the latest in digital health and information technology.

Themed Healthcare Anytime, Anywhere, HIMSS AsiaPac18 has something for everyone! We look forward to welcoming you in Brisbane this November. 

Curious I wondered when and found:

Seems it is happening 5-8 November with the main days being 6 and 7 November.

I wonder did they notice the second day was the First Tuesday in November (Melbourne Cup Day)?

The programme for the 2 main days stuck me as rather lacking much local content and being rather military of all things on Tuesday.

Then I looked at the sponsors:

Top of the tree I found:

Thought Leader Sponsor:

The Australian Digital Health Agency

The Australian Digital Health Agency was established in July 2016 to improve health outcomes for all Australians with a focus on engagement, innovation and clinical quality and safety. It is responsible for national systems – including My Health Record – and for implementing Australia’s National Digital Health Strategy in collaboration with partners across the community. The Strategy will put consumers at the centre of their health and care and empower more choice, control and transparency. By the end of 2018, all Australians will have a My Health Record, which contains a secure mobile summary of their health information that can be shared with care professionals – unless they choose to opt out.

For more information please visit www.digitalhealth.gov.au

I am also not sure I could handle a presentation from the Consumer Health Forum titled 'Healthcare Transparency and Co-Creation with Consumers". Rather too Orwellian for me...
Here is the conference link:

https://www.himssasiapacconference.org/

Well that did it for me, especially with an expired security certificate and especially with the cost being over $1000 for the two days: Pass

The HINZ one for less money sounds like more fun:

HiNZ conference growth shows digital health has hit the mainstream

5 October, 2018

eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth

Clinicians are the biggest driver in the growth of the HiNZ Conference, with the 2018 event expected to be the biggest yet, says HiNZ chief executive Kim Mundell.

Around 1000 delegates are expected at this year’s HiNZ Conference, running from Wednesday 21 November to Friday 23 November.

The event, held at Wellington’s TSB Arena and Shed 6, will also boast its largest ever exhibition hall, with 93 booths.

Mundell says the growth of the conference year on year shows that digital health has moved out of the early adopter stage and into the mainstream.

Clinicians in particular are fuelling the growth in delegate numbers, she says.

“It’s no longer a niche subject that you have a few clinicians engage with – it’s now mainstream and part of everyday healthcare.”

Twelve international keynote speakers from the UK, US, Brazil, Hong Kong and Australia will speak on topics ranging from digitising patient records to artificial intelligence in healthcare and the role of smartphones in cancer research.

Keynote speaker Richard Corbridge was the former CIO of the Irish Health Service Executive and was named in 2017 as the “most disruptive tech or digital leader” in the European Union by Sir Richard Branson and Steve Wozniak.

He says an electronic health record is the key to efficiency and transparency and the only way a healthcare system can be integrated.

“Ireland was the first country in Europe to present a business case for a digital health system that included not just the traditional IT cost but also the cost of business change – the cost of ensuring not just the technology was procured, but that the cost of ensuring benefit gained was figured into the project,” he says.

“The citizens of New Zealand deserve a modern healthcare system that is built upon information. The ability to return information about patients to them to aid with their own health and wellness should be a modern expectation of the health system.”

Fellow UK-based keynote Lesley Holdsworth is the Scottish Government’s clinical lead for digital health and care and has been named both Scottish Digital Impact Leader of the Year and UK Digital Team Leader in 2018.

She is driving digitisation of Scotland’s patient records and benchmarking it against global frontrunners and says New Zealanders should embrace their medical records going digital, not fear it.

“There are many benefits to us all as both patients and citizens of having EHRs. These include ensuring that information about us is accurate, up to date and can be easily shared with both us and those who need to have this information,” Holdsworth says.

The HiNZ conference also includes a one-day eHealth Nursing and an eAllied Health event.

Here is the link:

https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/420954/HiNZ-conference-growth-shows-digital-health-has-hit-the-mainstream-.htm

As they say, you pay your money and take your chance…

David.