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b'Dr Louise Schaper is an expert in health informatics, and is passionate about transforming the health sector by leveraging technology to provide sustainable and better health for everyone.\\nLouise is the CEO of HISA: Australia\\u2019s digital health community. In this role she brings together world-class clinicians, researchers, innovators and organisations from across biomedical, health and technology who are committed to the improvement of health outcomes enabled through innovative uses of technology and information.\\nIn this episode Louise talks to Pete about HISA and it\\u2019s role in the health community as well as the evolution of Digital Health.\\xa0 Louise also delves into the importance of events to bring together the healthtech community, and the big themes in Health IT today.\\nOverview\\n[02:00] The background of HISA: Back in 1992 HISA was founded when computer technology adoption generally was low.\\xa0 They became Australia digital health community.\\xa0 Bringing the tribe of digital health ecosystem together\\xa0\\n[03:40] HISA is putting out a paper about where they see digital health.\\xa0 Sneak peak: before we spoke about health it, ehealth, digital health is interchangeable Digital Health is different to the application of IT in healthcare.\\xa0 In 2019 they are leading that conversation - health in the digital age.\\xa0 How does health transform to the fact world is digital these days.\\xa0 Hard to implement.\\n[05:50] The Australian healthcare system isn\\u2019t screwed, we deliver high quality healthcare to many people, but generally it needs to be fixed.\\xa0 Not broken but could be better.\\xa0 Not a fault of clinicians, technology doesn\\u2019t give them the right tools to do their job in the more effective way possible.\\xa0 Work to do to change that situation\\n[06:50] In America, $4.2 billion invested in digital health in first half of 2019.\\xa0 A lot of money invested globally, especially in Silicon Valley. Since 2011, in US, $29.4 billion invested in digital health.\\xa0\\n[08:00] Investing in healthcare is riskier investment, it\\u2019s not like other industries.\\xa0 In healthcare, focus needs to be on the workforce.\\xa0 No matter how much you invest and how great the tech is, the workforce needs to understand why we need to change in healthcare.\\xa0 Need to change the business models of healthcare.\\xa0 Need to be critical on how we look at technology while we embrace it.\\xa0 This is not taught in uni for doctors.\\xa0 Can\\u2019t just put devices infant of clinicians and expect them to embrace it.\\xa0 Investing in upskilling workforce in digital health is growing area.\\xa0 Seeing increasing momentum in dollars spent on this area. \\xa0\\n[11:15] HISA is Independent but partners with many organisations including ADHA Australian Digital Health Agency.\\xa0 Run events, forums, connect people who feel they are alone in digital health world.\\xa0 Also working with nurses and midwives to build a digital health capability framweeworl for nurses, and ADHA is sponsoring that.\\xa0 Will be launched next year - worlds digital health nuses and midwives coming to Brisbane next year, launching there.\\xa0 Individual nurses and midwives, employers and educators to see what does a nurse need to know about digital health to be the best nurse they can be.\\xa0 Upskill workforce, educators can plan curriculum, and nurses and midwives look to improve their career. \\xa0\\nWorkarounds are inevitable if training and onboarding in\\xa0\\n[16:00] When we nail it, we can just go back to calling it health.\\xa0 It\\u2019s not health IT, healthtech. E-commerce just became commerce and became the norm / they became redundant.\\xa0 Eventually technology will be the norm and how we do things. \\xa0\\n[18:00] The way we manage healthcare information hasn\\u2019t really changed\\xa0 in couple hundreds of years.\\xa0 Since Florence nightingale\\u2019s time.\\xa0 She complained about the lack of information she could use for comparative purposes to help patients.\\xa0 Things move slowly.\\xa0 We will get to a point where Florence wanted where clinicians have real time info, live dashboards, helpful info to make best decisions'