Applications are now open until 17 April 2024 for the Institute’s Women in Digital Health (WiDH) leadership and professional development program. This six-month leadership program is built to support emerging leaders and established leaders to realise and develop their leadership potential.
Australia is taking the next steps towards the digital transformation of healthcare, embracing new opportunities and ways of managing our health and wellbeing. This National Digital Health strategy places people at the centre of a modern, connected and digitally enabled healthcare system. View the strategy.
Have your say. The HTA Review has been extended until 15 April 2024. This gives the committee more time to hold further public consultation and consider the feedback and material received.
The AFMW is pleased to share the following information concerning the 2023 Brilliant Women in Digital Health Awards which seek to recognise women from across Australia for their achievements in the health and aged care sectors. Nominate yourself or someone you know by completing the online nomination form by Friday 30 June 2023, 5pm AEST.
Applications are now open until 20 January 2023 for the Institute’s Women in Digital Health (WiDH) leadership and professional development program. Now in its second year, WiDH was developed to advance the digital health careers of women through immersive coaching and personalised mentoring experiences. The 25 women accepted into the program will work with inspirational leaders, coaches and mentors from across the digital health community and join leadership retreats from February to August 2023.
Being one if the 6 mentor / leaders for the inaugural Women in Digital Health Mentoring & Leadership program was a 2022 highlight for me. Sponsored by Telstra Health, Australasian Institute of Digital Health ( AIDH) and Alcidion. Last night’s graduation event was hosted at the beautiful offices of Ernst & Young in Sydney, overlooking the harbour.
THE AFMW is pleased to share the following information concerning the 2022 Brilliant Women in Digital Health Awards which seek to recognise 25 women from across Australia for their achievements in the health and aged care sectors. Nominations are now open to recognise women at all stages of their careers for their contributions in mentoring, medical research, technology development, improving health outcomes using digital health or introducing a new digital process. Nominations are open until 13 June.
EVENT RECAP: The Talking HealthTech (THT) Autumn Summit was held on the 12th of May. It was a great pleasure moderating the session today on Gender Equity in Digital Health. It was a fabulous opportunity for women in medicine to learn the ‘how to’s’ on driving change, increasing participation and representation of women doctors in Digital Health, from this session.
The Brilliant Connected Women in Digital Health (BCWinDH) has recently published the findings of research conducted as a joint initiative between Telstra Health, the Digital Health CRC, CSIRO eHealth Research Institute, and Australasian Institute of Digital Health. This research, aimed to create a baseline understanding of gender diversity within the Australian digital health sector to help to identify the challenges and opportunities for improvement.
The inaugural National Women in Digital Health Leadership and Mentoring program has been launched! It’s the first of its kind in Australia and has been adapted from the program developed in USA, and modified to suit our context. We have 27 fabulous women who have taken the opportunity to venture into a leadership and mentoring program specific to digital health over the next 6 months.
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