Digital Disruption in Healthcare

Nilmini Wickramasinghe, PhD, is an active leader in designing and developing health informatics content in 3 continents for many years. Her simultaneous appointments in Melbourne, Australia at the Swinburne University of Technology where she is the Professor of Digital Health and Deputy Director of the Iverson Health Innovation Research Institute as well as Epworth Healthcare where she is Professor and Director of Health Informatics Management have given her unique access to both medical research and education at Epworth Health as well business applications of HCIS at the Swinburne University of Technology. Her research interests focus on the design, development, and deployment of successful digital health solutions to support high-value patient-centered wellness and care delivery. She is the recipient of the 2020 prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Award for outstanding contribution to Digital Health. Suresh Chalasani, PhD, is a professor of management information systems at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Prior to joining UW-Parkside, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Chalasani's teaching and research interests include healthcare management and healthcare information systems. Suresh received a number of research and teaching awards including the UW MBA Consortium's Outstanding Faculty Award and UW-P’s Stella Gray Award for Teaching Excellence. He is a senior member of IEEE and received research and teaching grants from the National Science Foundation and the University of Wisconsin System. Dr. Chalasani’s educational background includes a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California and a Master of Engineering degree in automation from the Indian Institute of Science. Elliot Sloane, PhD, is a practitioner, researcher, and educator in the Clinical Engineering and MIS fields. He is the Emeritus Co-Chair of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International (IHE) standards organization, and he has over 40 years of experience in healthcare technology management and HCIS, serving hospitals, government agencies around the globe, and manufacturers. His pre-academic experiences as a CIO, CTO, and CRO in the healthcare industry focused on patient safety, healthcare technology management, and privacy and security. That background fuels and informs his passion for research, education, teaching, and practice in the HCIS field.

• How Technology Is Changing the Delivery and Consumption of Healthcare.- Brain-Computer Interfaces: Taking Thoughts out of the Human Body.- Towards Network Medicine: Implementation of Panomics and Artificial Intelligence for Precision Medicine.- Data Analytics for Accountable Care Organizations in a Shifting Landscape of Health and Medicine.- The Case for Digital Twins in Healthcare.- Using Coloured Petri Nets for Optimisation of Healthcare Processes.- Towards Concept Realisation of Digital Health Technologies.- Clinical Tele-assessment: The Missing Piece in Healthcare Pathways for Orthopaedics.- Telehealth Implementation: A Synopsis of Patients’ Experience of Clinical Outcomes.- Disrupting LATAM Digital Healthcare with Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship.- Data for Social Good – A Tripartite Approach to Address Diabetes Self-care and Patient Empowerment.- Realising the Healthcare Value Proposition of Better Access, Quality and Value of Care by Incorporating the Social Determinantsof Health with Digital Health.- Why Do You Want Me to Use This EMR?.- Leveraging Information Technology in Pharmacovigilance: Benefits for Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Companies.- Scoping Mobile Clinical Decision Support Systems to Enhance Design and Recording of Usage Data Effectively: A Suggested Approach.- Better Pandemic Preparedness with the Intelligence Continuum.- COVID-19 Response in Australia and the USA (March-August 2020) and the Key Role for Digital Health: A Tale of Two Countries.- Digital Tools as Optimizing Enablers of Quantitative Medicine and Value-Based Healthcare in a SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Pandemic World.- The Internet Hospital in the Time of COVID-19: An Example from China.