Dr Neale Fong, CEO of Bethesda Health Care and board chair of Western Australia Country Health Service, talks about implementing telemedicine across rural and regional communities.

At HIMSS24 APAC, Healthdirect Australia CMO Dr Nirvana Luckraj will share how their organisation safely implemented new technologies.

The digital health indicator has helped to remove care siloes and enabled a more integrated, outcomes-orientated healthcare system, says Vanessa Janissen, national director of strategy and service development at Calvary Health Care, Australia.

Helping practitioners self-learn and improve patient outcomes through coaching and data dashboards has also benefited employers with better risk mitigation strategies, says Melinda Wassell, chief health informatics officer at Work Healthy Australia.

Diabetes is a data-driven health condition and those with the disease should be provided choices of treatment plans and supported in their choices, says Renza Scibilia, manager of type 1 diabetes and consumer voice at Diabetes Australia.

The manifestation of digital health issues locally may differ, but there are plenty of opportunities to share learnings from matters such as workforce, according to Louise Schaper, CEO of Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA).

Peter Faulkner, CEO of Bendigo Health -- a large regional health service in Victoria, Australia -- talks about increased demand changing the business of hospital management, and how tech advances around supply chain and machine learning can help.

Australia's My Health Record provides more than 90% of citizens with a national eHealth record that can help users improve their digital health journey, according to Rachel De Sain, CEO, Codesain.

Rare conditions have been identified and treated successfully through pediatric gene testing, and is just one area of care that has been transformed, says Kate Birch, head of data and technology at Melbourne Genomic Health Alliance, Australia.

Those living with chronic health conditions should be acknowledged and respected as the experts in managing their own care, says Renza Scibilia, Manager, Type 1 Diabetes and Consumer Voice, Diabetes Australia.

Dr. William Ibbotson, a medical officer with the Royal Flying Doctors Service, talks about rolling out a light, mobile and agile EMR system to better serve patients in rural Australia, where there may not be Internet or satellite coverage.

Jane Miller, COO of Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, says her organization, which reached the elite stage 7 O-EMRAM, treated EMR implementation as a clinical transformation project, not an IT project.