Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference 2023: program

The Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference 2023 — Creating a digitally savvy workforce — will take place on Day 1 of #MEDINFO23, Saturday, 8 July 2023, in Sydney.

In line with the theme of MedInfo 2023 (The future is accessible), the event aims to inspire nurses and midwives to become digitally empowered in the future delivery of care to achieve quality outcomes across all healthcare settings.

The conference focuses on four main themes: digital professionalism, data-enabled care, technology, and leadership and advocacy. With expert speakers from around the world and informative sessions, attendees can expect to learn about best practices and strategies for implementing digital health technologies in their work.

The program begins with a session on digital professionalism, exploring topics such as the importance of digital security, the consequences of digital poverty and the importance of mastering a digital identity.

The data-enabled care session focuses on the role of nurses and midwives in the management of data, translation of nursing and midwifery data to information knowledge and wisdom, data-informed decision-making, digital health governance and more.

In the technology-themed sessions, attendees will learn about digital health innovation, m-health devices, smart devices, interoperable data collection, co-designed devices, virtual reality educational tools and robotics in health care.

Finally, the leadership and advocacy theme considers topics such as partnering with recipients of care/consumers about data collection, access and use, educating colleagues and consumers about digital health initiatives, advocating for consumer access to digital health initiatives and influencing organisational and jurisdictional digital health strategies.

Organisers said the Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference is an opportunity for nursing and midwifery professionals to stay ahead of the curve in digital health.

Keynote speakers from across the globe will be present to share their unique perspective on digital empowerment for nurses and midwives:

• Prof Dawn Dowding: Professor in Clinical Decision Making, The University of Manchester, UK
• Toria Shaw Morawski: CEO, Globally Empowered, USA
• Dr Laura-Maria Peltonen: Research Fellow, University of Turku, Finland
• Dr Carey Mather FAIDH: Senior Lecturer, The University of Tasmania, Australia
• Nicole Payne: Director of Hospital Engagement, HealthCare Logic, Australia
• Liz Keen: Director, Clinical Governance, Australian Digital Health Agency, Australia
   

Registration and full program available here.

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