Can the health business model be transformed by technology? If so, how, when and what can we expect?
Join us for a dynamic panel discussion exploring how technology is reshaping the future of healthcare â from AI and data-driven insights to digital systems that are redefining patient experience, business models, and delivery of care.
Together, the panel will unpack whatâs driving transformation, the challenges that remain, and the opportunities ahead for Australiaâs health sector.
Date
Tuesday, 25 November, 2025
Time
11.30am - Registration
12pm - 2pm
Includes a 2-course plated lunch and beverages
Our Speakers
Professor Martin Connor - Bond Business School
Melissa Andison - Founder People Before Technology
Damian Green - Chair of AiDH and Director Gold Coast PHN
Dr Keiran Le Plastrier Assistant Professor, General Practice, Bond University
Learn more about our panel members:
Professor Martin Connor
Martin Connor, PhD is a highlyâexperienced health policy and system reform specialist. He has held senior leadership roles including Programme Director of Trafford Care Organisation (in the UK) and Special Policy Advisor in Northern Ireland (PHSSPSNI).
His early research focused on integrated health care systems â in particular on the interplay of physician compacts, primary care infrastructure and health information systems. His work included site visits and semiâstructured interviews at highâperforming organisations such as Kaiser Permanente, Intermountain Healthcare and Marshfield Clinic.
He was a 2010â11 Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy & Practice, working with mentors such as Alan Garber and Stephen M. Shortell. More recently he has served as Executive Director of the Centre for Health Innovation, Griffith University in Australia.
Connorâs extensive experience spans governance, strategic reform, health systems engineering and delivery of integrated care. His work positions him as a thought leader in how health systems can be designed and managed to improve quality, coordination and performance.
Melissa Andison
Melissa was the first Allied Health Professional elected to the UK's National Chief Clinical Information Officer Advisory Panel. In 2022, she was awarded a British Computer Society Fellowship for her work digitally transforming healthcare. A National Health Service Digital Academy graduate, Melissa also studied at Imperial College London to complete an MSc in Digital Health Leadership. Her research area is digital health safety. Melissa is an AIDH Board Director. In 2024, she founded People Before Technology, an organisation that creates safe and equitable digital experiences for social good.
Damian Green
Damian Green is the Chair of AiDH and Director of Gold Coast Public Health Network.
Previously, as Executive Director, Digital Transformation and Chief Information Officer, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service; Damian led the delivery of Gold Coast Healthâs two-year journey to become a fully digital hospital and was pivotal in driving continuous improvement in health service delivery and quality.
Damian is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management and Adjunct Professor School of Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith University, and chairs the Schoolâs Industry Advisory Board. He is also a Board Director of the Gold Coast Primary Health Network and serves on the Boards of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and the Australian eHealth Research Centre.
Dr Keiran Le Plastrier
Dr Le Plastrier graduated from Monash University in 2002 with Honours, and has been a practising physician for 20 years. His career has included training with the College of Surgeons and College of Psychiatry, before completing his Fellowship is General Practice. His PhD, undertaken at the University of Western Sydney, was an inquiry into the impact of the '4-hour rule' in hospital emergency departments in Australia, which uncovered a rich and uncertain sense of the epistemological and ontological bases of why we do what we do in medicine. With his colleague, Dr Lesley Kuhn, they have published an introduction to their complex, entropic, and ethical (ComEntEth) model of the structure of relations of healthcare and the energetic transactions and transformations that underpin how things get done in healthcare.
Dr Le Plastrier is an international-award winning educator who promotes a dialogic approach to learning in which pupil and tutor begin as equals in their discovery of the knowledge and practice of medicine - that privileged and storied profession in service to human societies for millennia in which a central attractor of purpose arises from the relationships that, at its core, define and make meaning of all healthcare.