The Hospital in the Home Conference will take place on the 31st March – 1st April at the Swissotel Sydney.
It will bring together a mix of decision makers from clinicians and hospital HITH leaders to government, private health insurers and operators, innovative service providers and more.
KEY TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Real-life experiences and challenges
- Latest innovations and research
- Managing complex medical conditions and post-surgical care
- Leveraging telehealth for consultations
- Remote monitoring devices and data integration for home patients
- Developing and managing HITH teams
- How to scale HITH services in large health systems
- Effective patient selection and assessment
- Home infusion therapy
- Ensuring safety and efficacy
- Navigating challenges and opportunities
Connect Virtual Care
The event will take place as part of 2026’s CONNECT VIRTUAL CARE event. We’re bringing together three related, but distinct events which will be co-located at the Swissotel Sydney. One pass gives access to all three conferences.
2025 Speakers
Dr Shaun Hosein
Clinical Director – Virtual and Integrated Care, Metro South Hospital and Health Service
Dr June Song
Medical Director, Hospital in the Home Adult, Monash Health
A/Prof Deborah Fox
Associate Professor in Midwifery, University of Technology Sydney
Prof Rachel Bachner-Melman
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Ruppin Academic Center and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mickael Gieules
A/Manager, Connected Care,
NSW Ministry of Health
Ryan Hutton
Manager – Provider Networks, NIB
Julia Conway
Director, Hospital Policy and Projects, Independent Health and Aged Care Pricing Authority
Niranjan Bidargaddi
Professor of Digital Health, Flinders University
Dr Helen Barrett
Director of Obstetric Medicine, Royal Hospital for Women
Eszter Jozsa
HITH co-ordinator, Department of Newborn Care, Royal Hospital for Women
Dr Lai Yi Feng
Acting Deputy Director, Integrated General Hospital (IGH) Programmes, MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation, Singapore & Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Singapore
Dr Carmon Guy
HITH Clinical Director,
Cairns Hospital, Queensland Health
Dr Emerson Keenan
CEO & CTO, Kali Healthcare & Honorary Research Fellow – Department of Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Newborn Health, The University of Melbourne
Mirela Prgomet PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele
PhD, Lecturer in Design and Innovation, Discipline of Design, The University of Sydney
Michael Tresillian
HITH/General Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Metro North Health
Sarah McRae
Chief Executive Officer, Amplar Health Home Hospital
Joanne Sharpe
Senior Manager – Connected Care Team, NSW Ministry of Health
Dr Michelle Chen
Clinical Director Virtual Care & Hospital in the Home Services, Northern Sydney Local Health District
Lina Belalcazar Osorio
Program Manager, St Vincent’s at Home & St Vincent’s Virtual, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney
Corinne Howell
Acute Program Manager, St Vincent’s at Home & St Vincent’s Virtual, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Rachelle Foxton
Allied Health Manager, Hospital in The Home & Virtual Care Service, Northern Sydney Local Health District
Susan Massey
Manager – Connected Care Team, NSW Ministry of Health
Matthias Langer
Nurse Manager – Hospital in the Home, Western Sydney Local Health District
Ben Harris
Director of Policy and Research, Private Healthcare Australia
Natascha Dastur
Acting Midwifery Clinical Co-Director – Maternity Services Division, Royal Hospital for Women
Dr Owen Hutchings
Clinical Director,
RPA Virtual Hospital
Ben Okonjo
Digital Health Manager,
Adelaide Primary Health Network
Donna Parkes
Stream Lead, Virtual Care,
NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation
Associate Professor Tam C. Nguyen
Deputy Director Research,
St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Ella Cannon
Principal,
Hive Legal
Dr Konrad Kangru
General Practitioner, Whitsunday Doctors Service; Medical Advisor, Office of Rural and Remote Health; Co- Chair, Queensland’s Rural & Remote Clinical Network; Qld Representative, RACGP Rural Faculty; Board Director, North Qld PHN
Venue
Swissôtel Sydney
68 Market St
Sydney NSW 2000
+61 (02) 9238 8888
Event Code of Conduct
We want everyone who comes to our events to have a great experience. This code explains our expectations and rules, which includes general good practice behaviour, and how to report anything witnessed or experienced that goes against them. Read our Event Code of Conduct here.
ConnectMe + Streamly
ConnectMe • Networking enhanced
All of our events utilise a bespoke dynamic smartphone app, ConnectMe – which guarantees attendees a premium event experience. Logins are sent prior to the conference commencement allowing you to check who’s attending, schedule in meetings and catch ups, participate in live Q+A and interactive polls, and much more. ConnectMe ensures you never miss a beat prior, during and post event.
Streamly • On-Demand video vault
Streamly is a new video platform from Informa Connect – hosting hours of session recordings from our events and more. Select the Streamly add-on at the checkout to receive an annual subscription to exclusive On-Demand session recordings from all of our related healthcare events*. Login information will be sent post event.
* Note: In a minority of cases, speakers may request their sessions to be excluded from Streamly access.