Medication Safety & Efficiency Conference
Utilising digital health systems to improve medication safety and efficiency
2-3 April 2025
Hilton Sydney
The Medication Safety and Efficiency Conference will return to the Hilton Sydney on 2-3rd April 2025.
Over the last 14 years, the event has become a well-established platform for bringing together key decision-makers and high-level executives to discuss the latest in digital health, medication safety, AI, electronic medication management, electronic prescribing, and electronic health records across the healthcare landscape within Australia.
The digital health space is constantly evolving, and with many new advances in digital health and digital transformation, it can often be hard to keep up. What are the most important advances, and those that are not-so-important that we should consider in our workplaces?
The next edition of the agenda will seek to explore this. From prescribing to pharmacy (in both private and public settings) to administration into the community via primary, tertiary and aged care. Key takeaways will include specific types of medication errors and how healthcare organisations have taken action to reduce them through multiple digital health systems. Questioning where Australia’s eMedication journey will head next?
Bringing together prescribers & pharmacists from across the Nation. Addressing and answering questions from a diverse and passionate audience of pharmacists, prescribers, allied & community health, federal & state governments, and software providers, join the conversation and network, connect, and reflect with your peers on this exciting industry.
The Medication Safety & Efficiency Conference is a highly focused event where you will be able to network with industry peers and ensure you get those all-important questions answered!
Topics to be addressed include:
- Medication management on patient transfer
- Addressing gaps in medication management systems
- Nursing workflows and clinical incidents]
- Upgrading from digital-to-digital systems
- Medication management in aged care
- Private and public health learnings
- Noteworthy advances in medication management
- Crucial technologies: what can’t we live without
- Consumer input
- Workforce capabilities: how do we equip our staff to work digitally?
- Becoming creative with the tools you already have
- New errors, incidents and usability
- Data: where should we be focusing for efficiency gain?
- Partnerships and collaboration
- Case studies
- Pre-clinical drugs and medication management systems
Connect Virtual Care
The event will take place as part of 2025’s CONNECT VIRTUAL CARE event. We’re bringing together three related, but distinct events which will be co-located at the Hilton Sydney. One pass gives access to all three conferences.
2024 Speakers
A/Professor Clair Sullivan
Director, Queensland Digital Health Centre, The University of Queensland, Clinical Informatics Director – Research, Digital Metro North, Senior Staff Specialist, Endocrinology, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
Kate Renzenbrink
Digital Health Nurse & Digital Health Adviser, Australian Digital Health Agency
Sarang Hashemi
PhD Candidate,
Monash University
Justine Anderson
Senior Associate,
Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
Nikki Reynolds
Lead Pharmacist – Command Centre, WA Country Health Service
Dr Ted Cassidy
Psychiatrist and Founder, Monarch Mental Health Group
Professor Mel Baysari
Professor of Human Factors, The University of Sydney
Dr Andrew Walby
Director of Medical Services, Portland District Health, Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Julian Soriano
Clinical Analyst, SA Pharmacy, Embedded Aged Care Pharmacist, Tanunda Lutheran Home
Lyndon Goddard
Senior Legal Counsel & Head of Public Policy, Eucalyptus
Bishma Jayathilaka
Chief Pharmacy Information Officer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dan McKavanagh
Director Clinical Informatics, Queensland Health
Peter Guthery
Senior Pharmacist – Strategic Policy, PSA
Simon Cleverley
Assistant Secretary, Digital Health Branch, Department of Health
Youseph Dib
QUM Pharmacist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dr Amanda Cross
Research Fellow and Pharmacist, Monash University
Selvana Awad
Senior Manager, Design Safety, Clinical Engagement & Patient Safety, eHealth NSW
Martina Francis
Medication Management Team Leader, SESLHD, Research Clinician (B.Pharm, Ph.D.), The University of Sydney
Olimpia Nigro
SA Health Electronic Medical Record Project – Pharmacy Lead, Implementation and Business Change, SA Health
Louis Cheung
eMM Team Lead, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Karen Chin
Senior Pharmacist – Pharmacy Digital Health, Alfred Health
Jeremy Tehan
Senior Pharmacist – Pharmacy Digital Health, Alfred Health
Dr Jonathan Penm
Senior Lecturer – School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney
Deborah Hawthorne
Clinical Pharmacist, Beyond Pain, Adjunct Senior Lecturer University, Western Australia, and Consultant Pharmacist of the Year 2023
Alexandra Brown
Clinical Pharmacist, Victorian Virtual Emergency Department, Northern Health
Dr Penny Webster
Staff Specialist in Geriatric Medicine, Hunter New England LHD
Peter Barclay
Director of Pharmacy, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
Emily Griffin
Early Career Pharmacist of the Year Victoria
Dr Ted Cassidy
Psychiatrist and Founder, Monarch Mental Health Group
Helender Singh
Pharmacist, Medication Safety and Quality Improvement, Logan and Beaudesert Hospital, Metro South Health
Venue
Hilton Sydney
488 George St
Sydney NSW 2000
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.