Digital Health Week 2023

Digital Health Week 2023 | 7th-9th February, 2023

In 2023, we will again be bringing you a joint event between the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne, and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) is joining us!

Digital Health Week is an opportunity for anyone interested in digital health to participate in a program of virtual events and share research and ideas. It is designed to be both informative, provocative, and a showcase of the innovative work being undertaken in digital health across the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, UNSW, and beyond. Digital Health Week 2023 will be a hybrid event to bring together researchers, health services, industry, and the community to build person-centred eHealth collaborations.

“Hope not hype”

Our ongoing vision for the Digital Health Week events is to have diverse speakers who challenge us and spark discussions that can help us all to create and use technology in ways that promote more inclusive healthcare and wellbeing.

This year’s theme will have a focus on exploring several concepts centred around hope for a better future:

• Harnessing the disruption – what have we learnt from recent rapid changes, challenges, and chaos that can be used to improve digital health systems and outcomes?
• Inclusive and collaborative – how can we nurture value-based, person-centred, and connected digital health care, ensuring living experience voices guide digital health initiatives?
• Functional, ethical, and sustainable – how do we build diverse, considered, and ethical technologies that work and are equitable, now and into the future?

Once again, three keynote sessions will be spaced across the three-day event. The first session on Tuesday will be a keynote by Associate Professor Rashina Hoda, the second session on Wednesday will feature Professor Farah Magrabi, and the third session on Thursday will include a keynote by Gillian Mason followed by a panel discussion with other healthcare consumers and academics. Digital Health Week will again also feature several abstract, networking, and ePoster sessions showcasing an exciting array of Digital Health projects and initiatives.

This year we will also be hosting three in-person networking events!

Come and join us (click on the relevant add-on when registering in order to attend your preferred networking session):

• Tuesday 7th February at 2pm for afternoon tea in Sydney at the Susan Wakil Health Building at the University of Sydney. The 1pm keynote session will also be live-streamed beforehand in the same location.
• Wednesday 8th February at 2pm for afternoon tea in Sydney at the AGSM at the UNSW, Kensington Campus. The 1pm keynote panel session will also be live-streamed beforehand in the same location.
• Thursday 9th February at midday for lunch in Melbourne at the Melbourne Connect Precinct of the University of Melbourne. The 1pm keynote panel session will also be in-person and live-streamed afterwards in the same location.

The program of events for #DigitalHealthWeek23 can be found here: https://dhin.net.au/program-and-speakers-digitalhealthweek2023/

Accessibility note: For the three keynote sessions, Auslan interpreters will be present and a live typist will be providing closed captioning on Zoom. Please contact digital.health-week@sydney.edu.au if you need additional accessibility support.