Council for Connected Care
Providing strategic advice on interoperability and supporting the implementation of the National Healthcare Interoperability Plan.
Role of Council
The Council for Connected Care will:
- identify opportunities to accelerate interoperability in various parts of the health system and ways to harness these opportunities
- facilitate and support the implementation of the Connecting Australian Healthcare – National Healthcare Interoperability Plan 2023-2028
- promote and garner support for digital health initiatives that drive connected healthcare
- identify barriers to achieving interoperability and ways to overcome them.
Members
The Council for Connected Care membership comprises of 38 leaders in digital health.
Member list
Member list
| Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan (Chairperson) | Chief Executive Officer | Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care |
| Professor Peter Sprivulis (Deputy Chairperson) | Chief Clinical Information Officer | WA Health |
| Dr Jason Agostino | Senior Medical Advisor | National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
| Dr Andrew Bell | Chief Clinical Information Officer | NT Health |
| Dr Zoran Bolevich | Chief Executive Officer | Australian Institute of Health & Welfare |
| Ms Amanda Cattermole PSM | Chief Executive Officer | Australian Digital Health Agency |
| Mr Simon Cleverley | Assistant Secretary | Department of Health, Disability and Ageing (DHDA) |
| Dr Elizabeth Deveny | Chief Executive Officer | Consumers Health Forum of Australia |
| Mr Nicholas Elmitt | Head of Quality and Research | Ageing Australia |
| Ms Mary Ann Baquero Geronimo | Chief Executive Officer | Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia |
| Ms Rachel Green | Chief Executive Officer | SANE Australia |
| Dr David Hansen | Chief Executive Officer | Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO |
| Mr Brett Heffernan | Chief Executive Officer | Australian Private Hospitals Association |
| Dr Toby Hodgson | Digital Health Senior Manager | Medical Technology Association of Australia |
| Dr Rob Hosking | Chair Expert Committee on Practice Technology and Management | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
| Ms Emma Hossack | Chief Executive Officer | Medical Software Industry Association |
| Ms Alice Kett | Strategic Lead Education | Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation |
| Dr John Lambert | Chief Clinical Information Officer | Tasmanian Department of Health |
| Mr Chris Leahy | Chief Operating Officer | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
| Professor Jenny May | National Rural Health Commissioner | Office of the National Rural Health Commissioner |
| Dr Keith McDonald | Chief Executive Officer | South Western Sydney, Primary Health Network |
| Mr David McGrath | Chief Executive Officer | National Mental Health Commission |
| Ms Bettina McMahon | Chief Executive Officer | Healthdirect |
| Dr Danielle McMullen | President | Australian Medical Association |
| Adjunct Associate Professor Stephen Morris | Chief Executive Officer | Pharmaceutical Society of Australia |
| Ms Anja Nikolic | Chief Executive Officer | Australasian Institute of Digital Health |
| Ms Jackie O’Connor | Digital Health Program Manager | Allied Health Professions Australia |
| Mr Peter O’Halloran | Chief Digital Officer | Australian Digital Health Agency |
| Dr Christopher Pearce | Chair Digital Health Committee | Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine |
| Mr Michael Perusco | Chief Executive Officer | National Disability Services |
| Mr Christopher Radbone | Chair | Australian Digital Health Standards Advisory Group |
| Mr Matthew Ryan | Digital Health Manager | Pharmacy Guild of Australia |
| Ms Jenny Sikorski | Chief Executive Officer | Public Pathology Australia |
| Mr Richard Skimin | Digital Healthcare Ambassador | Australian Patients Association |
| Professor Trish Williams | Cisco Chair and Professor of Digital Health Systems | Flinders University |
| Ms Sallyanne Wissmann | Chief Executive Officer | Health Information Management Association of Australia Ltd. |
| Pending | - | Australian Information Industry Association |
| Pending | - | Services Australia |
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