Digital Health Festival: transformation through connection

Across two days in May, DHF25 will bring together 8000 attendees, 400 speakers and 200 exhibitors with the theme “transforming healthcare through connection”.

Digital Health Festival 2025 (DHF25) comes to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 13–14 May with the aim to connect hospital and healthcare professionals and an ethos that the future of health care is digital. Established in 2021, the festival offers insights into the technologies and trends that are transforming clinical care, patient experiences and the industry as a whole.

Some of the festival’s key streams include:

• aged care innovation — how cutting-edge solutions are being designed to enhance caregiving, promote independence and streamline healthcare management;
• AI — how clinicians are implementing AI today, building ethical frameworks and seeing the solutions of tomorrow;
• cyber security — how a safer future for care is being secured;
• digital practice — how primary care is changing in the face of a digital revolution;
• health and wellness — how devices of tomorrow are improving preventative care and chronic disease management, boosting productivity and promoting overall wellbeing;
• interoperability — how communication and collaboration across healthcare providers has become front of mind and pathways towards clean, safe data exchange; and
• women in digital health — hearing from those women leaders who are forging a way for health care’s digital future.
   

Highlight talks include:

• ‘Digital health — the key to modernising Australia’s health care system’ by Daniel McCabe — Medicare Benefits and Digital Health First Assistant Secretary;
• ‘AI in healthcare: a dystopian quest for perfection?’ by Dr James Somauroo — Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SomX and host of Britain’s The Healthtech Podcast; and
• a session called ‘Women CEOs on the biggest stage’, which is chaired by NSW Health ICT Program Director Juliana Iles-Mann — joined by Healthdirect Australia CEO Bettina McMahon, Magentus Group CEO Rachael Powell and Elizabeth Koff, Managing Director of Telstra Health and former NSW Health Secretary.
   

With 10 conference theatres running simultaneously and 40% of attendees being decision-makers from Australia’s leading health services, brands and government, Digital Health Festival General Manager and Director Terry Cornick said there’s something here for everyone.

“Digital health is no longer just healthcare IT, it’s intertwined with medtech, pharma, biotech, cybersecurity, wellness, virtual care and more,” Cornick said.

“Think of it as your backstage pass to the digital health revolution. Whether you’re navigating AI adoption, tackling cybersecurity or brainstorming how to personalise care for the tech-savvy consumer, DHF25 gives you the tools, connections and inspiration to thrive.”

Tickets are available here, via the DHF25 website.

For more information about DHF25, visit www.digitalhealthfest.com.au.

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