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Melbourne, 20 - 21 May 2026
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Care without walls - reimagining the hospital through virtual-first models
Update on Victoria's digital health journey
How can Australia lead in genomics
What it really takes to deliver value
AI for precision medicine
Translating clinician-focused design into real world impact
Winning the modern patient: engagement, experience and retention in primary care
Telesitting in healthcare: Rethinking privacy and perception
CSIRO’s Sciansa: A multi-agent AI assistant for health and life sciences
Genomics in everyday care: What consumers need from a digital health system
Genomics in everyday care: What consumers need from a digital health system
System relief vs patient risk: What five-years of scaling VVED taught us about safety in virtual care
The 5 hidden behaviours quietly destroying your culture (and what great leaders do instead)
Clinical governance vs digital health
Transforming frontline working in aged care through AI and digitalisation
From pilots to system change: making digital health “stick”
Lessons from 30+ years taking innovation from first regulatory listing through to funding, clinical adoption and global scale, and what that means for AI, virtual care and Digital Health projects today.
Enhancing clinical visibility: FHIR integration of urgent review requests in action
Digital by Design or Digital by Default? Scaling Virtual Care After the Pandemic
As virtual care becomes business as usual, many health services are scaling digital models without fully understanding how they are experienced on the ground. Drawing on survey data from patients, clinicians, and service leaders involved in post-surgical care, this talk explores what’s working, what’s creating friction, and where virtual care risks becoming “digital by default” rather than “digital by design.” The findings offer practical, evidence-informed insights to help digital health leaders embed virtual care pathways that are sustainable, patient-centred, and fit for real-world clinical practice.
Therapeutics in the digital age: What can we learn from the past?
As we continue to launch into the digitalage of healthcare, digitaltherapeutics represent a key expression of our new capabilities.
There is much to learn from lookingto the past however, as we continue to forge a path into this brave new world.
Concepts like polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, patient compliance, and value assessment and funding all have correlates in the digital world, and yet it can be argued we are currently paying scant attention to these.
We will explore these issues in this presentation, as they represent critical success factors in the sustainable use of digital therapeutics.
Securing operational technology environments in manufacturing & logistics
Confronting Australia’s chronic disease challenge
Sex-specific considerations for digital health
The human touch in digital health: Empathy, trust & communication
The Human + AI Advantage
Beyond motivation: The tech and science of sustainable change
Digital therapeutics in Australia: Defining the path to adoption
From hospital to home: Scaling virtual care into primary practice
Medical leaders of the future
What's driving and creating workforce efficiencies in aged care
Title TBC
All these data, now what? Turning insights into impact
Reimagining rural care: Partnerships powering access through innovation
The hidden cost of custom: Navigating the build vs. buy decision
The power of the patient perspective
Under the blanket: Where trust meets technology in mental health care
Smarter rosters, better care: Unlocking cost and workforce efficiencies
Securing AI in healthcare: Threats, risks and governance
The missing link: funding digital health for a modern care model
A new era for WA health: Connected care and passwordless access
Evolution or extinction: The choice for doctors (and their software)
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, doctors are faced with the choice of either adapting to new technologies and practices or facing potential extinction. Embracing innovative software solutions can help doctors streamline their workflows, improve patient care, and stay competitive in a rapidly changing healthcare landscape. Doctors who resist incorporating new technologies into their practices risk falling behind their peers and losing patients to more tech-savvy providers. By investing in advanced software tools, doctors can enhance their diagnostic capabilities, optimize treatment plans, and ultimately deliver better outcomes for their patients.The decision to evolve with the times or face extinction is a critical one for doctors, as the future of healthcare increasingly relies on the integration of technology and data-driven insights.
How Virtual Nursing engages and supports the clinical workforce in Residential Aged Care Homes
Keeping people: Solving the retention crisis through culture and leadership
Inside Victoria's first ion robotic bronchoscopy program
From inventory to insight: How to prioritise digital investments across health systems
If you build it, will they use it?
The health information exchange update
Trustworthy AI in healthcare: Lessons from Singapore’s system-wide approach
Safer Virtual Care: Lessons from medical literature and case law
A session on virtual care and evidence regarding quality, safety of virtual care for mental health, and soon to be published work which examines case law pertaining to telehealth in Australia and Canada.
Beyond the call: Rethinking virtual touchpoints across the care journey
Embedding a culture of continuous learning and upskilling
Connected by design: The partnerships and technology powering the future of healthcare
Closing the digital maturity gap in primary care
Safety by Design: The Clinical Impact of Workforce Planning and Fatigue-Aware Rostering
Redefining medication safety: AI and biometric innovation in aged care
Seamless Care Teams: Rethinking Collaboration Across Boundaries
The AI psychologist: Ethical guardrails for LLM therapy
Digging up gold: How to make use of our clinical data
Roboyo presentation
Embedding innovation in public research organisations
Lifestyle AI with impact
Australian health data evidence network (AHDEN): Building a national data infrastructure for standardised, federated health data research
Data that matters: Activating citizens through PROMS and registries
Transforming specialist access: The VVSC virtual care model
From automation to prevention in primary care
Revolutionising in-home nursing: Insights from Silverchain's AI journey
The triple benefits of digital twins: Precision, personalisation and progression
Reimagining concussion care: The Ramsay health plus integrated clinic model
Digital Health Careers For Doctors
ConnectUp: Using digital innovation to enhance inclusion for people with disability and carers
Building better teams through better tech: A guide for Clinics and Developers
StandingTall together: How researchers and providers are scaling digital health in aged care
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From Precision to Personalisation: Making Health more patient-specific
Future of healthcare systems: System of Record vs System of Action
Mental health clinicians are trained to make complex decisions in real time, yet the systems surrounding care were never designed to support that work. Instead, they focus on documentation, compliance, and remembering the past, pulling attention away from the moment care actually happens.
In this session, psychologist and health-tech founder Ridhi A Malhotra challenges the assumption that better documentation equals better care. She argues that traditional EHRs have reached their limits as systems of record, and that the future of mental health depends on a fundamental shift toward systems of action: infrastructure that supports clinical judgment, reduces cognitive load, and enables timely, ethical decision-making while care is in motion.
Drawing from lived experience in the therapy room and a forward-looking lens on AI, this talk explores why burnout is a design problem, not a resilience failure, and why the next generation of mental health technology will be defined not by what it records, but by what it enables.
1800Medicare
Losing ourselves, finding ourselves: Professional identity in the age of intelligent machines
Allied health's digital uplift plan
The PHN and AIHW data collaboration
Implementing EMRs at scale: Lessons from Singapore
Removing bias and reimagining digital health and AI for women
Reducing ED pressure through digital innovation
Orchestrating multi-agent LLM systems for clinical governance: From evaluation to deployment
Digital integrated healthcare
Beyond the Clinic: Expanding Eating Disorders and Mental Health Care Through AI
Cyber Security considerations for the Health Sector
Switching on the future: Hunter New England's experience with the Single Digital Patient Record
Frameworks for data quality and clinical trust in the AI lifecycle
AI avatars, infographics and health literacy for the patient journey
Screens and dopamine: How technology impacts the brain
Beyond the hype: Turning AI velocity into verified, trustworthy clinical value
How do allied health professionals and the ecosystem share information effectively?
Workplace wellness: Moving beyond perks to purpose
The Patient Dropped Off the Call: What Breaks Virtual Care, and How to Fix It
What 100 voices told me about the future of health
Translating research into clinical and patient improvements
'Mind the gap' between the patients and the data platforms
From insight to action: Operationalising AI in clinical workflows
Unlocking investment into women's health
The ethics of loneliness & automation
Bluegum - Tasmania's health transformation
Women’s health in a modern healthcare system
From pilots to practice: Why digital health breaks and how to build technology that survives reality
Queensland's digital health journey
Case Study: Healthy futures hub - Independent living lab
A co-designed space for testing, learning, and living independently using enablement of the built environment and technology design. This facility is located at the Healthy Futures Hub in Seaford.
The Independent Living Laboratory is a purpose-built simulation facility developed by the National Centre for Healthy Ageing (NCHA), a collaboration between Monash University and Peninsula Health. Located at the Healthy Futures Hub in Seaford, the lab is part of a precinct designed to support thriving communities through research, innovation, and inclusive design. It was co-created with various stakeholders, including clinicians, researchers, architects, and community members, to shape future models of care and living environments for older adults and people with disabilities.
Building Cyber Fitness in Healthcare: Embedding Security Culture Across Organisations
Title TBC
What does it take to get breakthrough technologies to market
How to prepare for digital transformations
From Data to Dialogue: Building Public Trust and Value at the Clinical Service Level
Update on Women’s Health ecosystem progress
At DHF25, Dina facilitated a panel with phenomenal women’s health entrepreneurs, sharing their latest wins. It was actionable and inspirational for many others, looking to solve for this big unmet health need and opportunity.
In this keynote, Dina will provide an update on the ecosystem. The wins, more women's health startups funded, new reforms, health professional training / curriculum being reviewed to address for sex and gender differences, and the first in the world Endometriosis Research Centre established at UNSW.
Who pays, who benefits: Funding the future of virtual care
Repurposing EMR data for governance, equity and quality
Digital inclusion and culturally safe care for First Nations communities
Patient led telehealth standards for Australia: Data, perspectives and what comes next
Interoperability to Insight: Why Data Quality is the New Bottleneck for AI in Healthcare
Integrating personal health data into clinical workflows
Governing agentic AI in healthcare
Digital credentialing and workforce audits: From chaos to clarity
Integrating social prescribing into everyday care
Unlocking potential with generative AI at Samsung Medical Centre
Community-led digital health: Lessons from First Nations innovators
Monash Health
Rural generalists
Operationalising AI governance: From principles to practice
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