Medication Safety & Efficiency Conference
Utilising digital health systems to improve medication safety and efficiency
7-8 March 2024
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The Medication Safety and Efficiency Conference will take place on the 7-8 March 2024 at the Hilton Sydney.
Over the last 13 years, the event has become a well-established platform for bringing together key decision-makers and high-level executives to discuss the latest in digital health, medication safety, AI, electronic medication management, electronic prescribing, and the electronic health record across the healthcare landscape within Australia.
As you know the digital health space is constantly evolving, and I’m sure you find it quite difficult to keep up with what is happening. What are the most important advances are, and the not-so-important.
The agenda will address both of those: from prescribing, to pharmacy, to administration into the community via primary and tertiary care. Key takeaways will include specific types of medication errors and how healthcare organisations have taken action to reduce them through multiple digital health systems. Continuously questioning where Australia’s eMedication journey will head next?
Bringing together prescribers & pharmacists from across the Nation. Addressing and answering questions from a diverse and passionate audience of pharmacists, prescribers, allied & community health, federal & state governments, and software providers, join the conversation and network, connect, and reflect with your peers on this exciting industry.
The Medication Safety & Efficiency Conference is a high-focused event where you will be able to network with industry peers, and ensure you get those all-important questions answered!
Topics to be addressed include:
- Beyond the good old paper days: Designing custom solutions for real problems
- Learnings from the UK: Interoperability & FHIR Standards
- Moving from Digital to Digital Systems
- Digitalising the Appropriate use of Medications
- Litigation at the Pointy End of Medication Errors
- Exploring Barcode Scanning Medication Administration in the Australian Context
- Digital Hospitals
- Real-life issues and how the EMR modified to Mitigate Them
- Incident Analysis within Digital Systems
- Are DDI alerts effective (final trial results) and how do you select and design your CDS moving forward?
- Utilising digital systems to prescribe safely with the consumer in mind
- Patient-Reported Data
- Practical and Legal Implications to Virtual Clinical Pharmacy
- Digital, Data, and Reporting Literacy
- EMR Alert and Notifications Design
- Where will eMR design go next? Need or desire
- Creating Time-Saving Workflows
- FHIR Standards and What this will Mean for Prescribers
- Working Together to close the Digital Loop of Medication Management: strategies to facilitate medication continuity
- ADHA Update
- Doctor, I have a problem with my digital health system
- Reducing Specific Types of Medication Errors
- National Medicines Policy: where now?
- Preventable medication errors in Emergency Department
Connect Virtual Care
The event will take place as part of 2024’s CONNECT VIRTUAL CARE event. We’re bringing together three related, but distinct events which will be co-located at the Hilton Sydney. One pass gives access to all three conferences.
Speakers
A/Professor Clair Sullivan
Director, Queensland Digital Health Centre, The University of Queensland, Clinical Informatics Director – Research, Digital Metro North, Senior Staff Specialist, Endocrinology, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Kate Renzenbrink
Digital Health Nurse & Digital Health Adviser, Australian Digital Health Agency
Sarang Hashemi
PhD Candidate,
Monash University
Justine Anderson
Senior Associate,
Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Nikki Reynolds
Lead Pharmacist – Command Centre, WA Country Health Service
Dr Ted Cassidy
Psychiatrist and Founder, Monarch Mental Health Group
Professor Mel Baysari
Professor of Human Factors, The University of Sydney
Dr Andrew Walby
Director of Medical Services, Portland District Health, Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Julian Soriano
Clinical Analyst, SA Pharmacy, Embedded Aged Care Pharmacist, Tanunda Lutheran Home
Lyndon Goddard
Senior Legal Counsel & Head of Public Policy, Eucalyptus
Bishma Jayathilaka
Chief Pharmacy Information Officer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dan McKavanagh
Director Clinical Informatics, Queensland Health
Peter Guthery
Senior Pharmacist – Strategic Policy, PSA
Simon Cleverley
Assistant Secretary, Digital Health Branch, Department of Health
Youseph Dib
QUM Pharmacist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dr Amanda Cross
Research Fellow and Pharmacist, Monash University
Selvana Awad
Senior Manager, Design Safety, Clinical Engagement & Patient Safety, eHealth NSW
Martina Francis
Medication Management Team Leader, SESLHD, Research Clinician (B.Pharm, Ph.D.), The University of Sydney
Olimpia Nigro
SA Health Electronic Medical Record Project – Pharmacy Lead, Implementation and Business Change, SA Health
Louis Cheung
eMM Team Lead, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Karen Chin
Senior Pharmacist – Pharmacy Digital Health, Alfred Health
Jeremy Tehan
Senior Pharmacist – Pharmacy Digital Health, Alfred Health
Dr Jonathan Penm
Senior Lecturer – School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney
Deborah Hawthorne
Clinical Pharmacist, Beyond Pain, Adjunct Senior Lecturer University, Western Australia, and Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2023
Alexandra Brown
Clinical Pharmacist, Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, Northern Health
Dr Penny Webster
Staff Specialist in Geriatric Medicine, Hunter New England LHD
Peter Barclay
Director of Pharmacy, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Emily Griffin
Early Career Pharmacist of the Year Victoria
Dr Ted Cassidy
Psychiatrist and Founder, Monarch Mental Health Group
Helender Singh
Pharmacist, Medication Safety and Quality Improvement, Logan and Beaudesert Hospital, Metro South Health
AGENDA
08:30
Registration & Morning Coffee
09:00
DAY ONE OPENING
09:05
Opening remarks from the Chair
Bishma Jayathilaka, Chief Pharmacy Information Officer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
09:10
OPENING ADDRESS | A Local Journey of Medication Safety and Business Efficiency at CHW
- Contemporary issues with the delivery of medication management systems
- Importance of system integration where appropriate
- Future requirements to enable BCMA in Australia
- The need for a patient focus rather than the healthcare setting to enrich the digital medical record.
Peter Barclay, Director of Pharmacy, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
09:40
CASE STUDY | Exploring Barcode Scanning Medication Administration in the Australian Context
- The unique challenges and successes of implementing barcode scanning medication administration (BCMA) in Australianhealthcare settings
- Share successes and discuss the hurdles faced with use of BCMA in the Parkville hospital precinct in Melbourne
- Discuss the legal and regulatory implications of current Therapeutics Goods Australia standards and practical impact on patient safety and care quality
Bishma Jayathilaka, Chief Pharmacy Information Officer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Youseph Dib, QUM Pharmacist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
10:10
KEYNOTE ADDRESS | Are DDI alerts effective (final trial results) and how do you select and design your CDS moving forward?
Professor Mel Baysari, Professor of Human Factors, The University of Sydney
Selvana Awad, Senior Manager, Design Safety, Clinical Engagement & Patient Safety, eHealth NSW
10:50
Networking Break & Morning Tea
11:20
ADDRESS | Administering Psychedelic Treatments in Australia
Dr Ted Cassidy, Psychiatrist and Founder, Monarch Mental Health Group
11:50
CASE STUDY | Litigation at the pointy end of medication errors
Justine Anderson, Senior Associate, Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
12:20
PANEL | Practical and legal implications to virtual clinical pharmacy / telepharmacy
- Paper & digital innovations
- What happens if the patient and client are in different states?
- Legal implications for cross/boarder prescribing
Nikki Reynolds, Lead Pharmacist – Command Centre, WA Country Health Service
Lyndon Goddard, Senior Legal Counsel & Head of Public Policy, Eucalyptus
Dr Jonathan Penm, Senior Lecturer – School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney
Deborah Hawthorne, Clinical Pharmacist, Beyond Pain, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University Western Australia, and Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2023
Moderated by Bishma Jayathilaka, Chief Pharmacy Information Officer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
13:00
Networking Lunch
14:00
The Algorithm will see you now
In this session, Assoc. Prof. Sullivan will explore the various digital health initiatives that are currently being explored at the Queensland Digital Health Centre as well as the challenges and opportunities of implementing these digital health solutions. We are aware of the benefits they offer to patients and healthcare providers but there are other important considerations such as engaging stakeholders in digital health change processes and the critical role of leadership in driving change. Assoc. Prof. Sullivan will provide insights into the future of digital health in Queensland, and potentially the entirety of Australia; including how emerging technologies such as synthetic data and federated learning can be utilised to enhance healthcare delivery and achieve the quadruple aim of healthcare.
Director, Queensland Digital Health Centre, The University of Queensland, Clinical Informatics Director – Research, Digital Metro North, Senior Staff Specialist, Endocrinology, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
14:30
EMR alert and notifications design using the MINDSPACE framework: understanding of human behaviour to influence actions
Clinical decision support (CDS) alerts and reminders aim to influence clinical decisions, yet they are often designed without considering human decision-making behaviour. While this behaviour is comprehensively described by behavioural economics (BE), the sheer volume of BE literature poses a challenge to designers when identifying behavioural concepts with utility to alert and reminder designs. This presentation tackles this challenge by focusing on a BE-grounded framework – namely, the MINDSPACE framework for behaviour change – and discussing its merits for designing CDS alerts and reminders with human decision-making considerations.
Kate Renzenbrink, Digital Health Nurse & Digital Health Adviser, Australian Digital Health Agency
Sarang Hashemi, PhD Candidate, Monash University
14:45
PANEL | Where will eMR design go next? Need or desire
Kate Renzenbrink, Digital Health Nurse & Digital Health Adviser, Australian Digital Health Agency
Karen Chin, Senior Pharmacist – Pharmacy Digital Health, Alfred Health
Louis Cheung, eMM Team Lead, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Moderated by Dr Jonathan Penm, Senior Lecturer – School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney
15:30
Afternoon Networking Tea
16:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS | FHIR Standards and what this will mean for prescribers
Simon Cleverley, Assistant Secretary, Digital Health Branch, Department of Health
16:30
CLOSING PANEL | Working together to close the digital loop of medication management: strategies to facilitate medication continuity
This session will bring together a multidisciplinary panel of primary care, residential aged care, and other non-hospital environments discussing the importance of medication safety, improving efficiency through multiple systems (paper-to-digital / digital-to-digital), RMMR, all whilst improving efficiency.
Julian Soriano, Clinical Analyst, SA Pharmacy, Embedded Aged Care Pharmacist, Tanunda Lutheran Home
Dr Penny Webster, Staff Specialist in Geriatric Medicine, Hunter New England LHD
Martina Francis, Medication Management Team Leader, SESLHD, Research Clinician (B.Pharm, Ph.D.), The University of Sydney
Dr Amanda Cross, Aged Care Pharmacist, Monash University
Moderated by Deborah Hawthorne, Clinical Pharmacist, Beyond Pain, Adjunct Senior Lecturer University, Western Australia, and Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2023
17:15
Closing remarks from the Chair
17:20
Networking Drinks
18:00
DAY 1 CONCLUDES
08:30
Registration & Morning Coffee
09:00
DAY TWO OPENING
09:05
Opening remarks from the Chair
Deborah Hawthorne, Clinical Pharmacist, Beyond Pain, Adjunct Senior Lecturer University, Western Australia, and Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2023
09:10
ROUNDTABLE | Doctor, I have a Problem with my Digital Health System
This session will include a series of short presentations by each state & territory representation leading into on-stage audience Q&A. The session will then breakout to more intimate roundtables hosted by a range representatives from each state & territory. These roundtables offer the opportunity for a deeper dive discussion with the state representative who can talk you through the various pain points, specific medication errors and how healthcare organisation have taken action to reduce them.
This session will bring together multiple states & territory’s all of which at different levels of digital health deployment. Enabling members of the digital health sphere to arm themselves with learnings & insights to make informed decisions within their setting.
State & Territory Representatives
Nikki Reynolds, Lead Pharmacist – Command Centre, WA Country Health Service
Olimpia Nigro, SA Health Electronic Medical Record Project – Pharmacy Lead, Implementation and Business Change, SA Health
Dan McKavanagh, Director Clinical Informatics, Queensland Health
Selvana Awad, Senior Manager, Design Safety, Clinical Engagement & Patient Safety, eHealth NSW
Jeremy Tehan, Senior Pharmacist – Pharmacy Digital Health, Alfred Health
Elise Griffiths, Director, Lead Analyst for Pharmacy and Medications, ACT Health
Moderated by Deborah Hawthorne, Clinical Pharmacist, Beyond Pain, Adjunct Senior Lecturer University, Western Australia, and Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2023
10:40
Networking Break & Morning Tea
11:10
KEYNOTE ADDRESS | ADHA Update – National Electronic Prescribing Survey findings, recommendations & next steps
Vicki Ibrahim, Director, Medicines Safety Program, ADHA
11:45
National Medicines Policy: where now?
There has been a drive towards long-term activation of digital health as an enabler of medicine safety, but large system changes needed, such as pharmacovigilance systems and effective error reporting systems in primary care, have not yet been supported
Peter Guthery, Senior Pharmacist – Strategic Policy, PSA
12:15
Preventable medication errors in emergency department
Dr Andrew Walby, Director of Medical Services, Portland District Health, Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
12:45
Networking Lunch
13:45
CASE STUDY | Designing Custom Solutions with the Consumer in Mind in the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department
- Utilising the consumer voice to prevent future medication errors
- Pharmacists involved in multidisciplinary models of care
- Multidisciplinary decision support & prescribing considerations in all areas of practice
Alexandra Brown, Clinical Pharmacist, Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, Northern Health
14:15
Pathing the way for Future Pharmacists
- Learnings from co-building Australia’s first VAD statewide pharmacy service
- Improving pharmacy workplace culture for current and future pharmacist
Emily Griffin, Early Career Pharmacist of the Year Victoria
14:45
CLOSING ADDRESS | Medication Safety is Everyone’s Business
Helender Singh, Pharmacist, Medication Safety and Quality Improvement, Logan and Beaudesert Hospital, Metro South Health
15:30
Closing remarks from the Chair
15:25
CONFERENCE CONCLUDES
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488 George St
Sydney NSW 2000
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