The Digital Health Festival (DHF) was mega. Australia’s largest digital health transformation event brought together the entire health eco-system (hospitals, primary & allied care, aged care, pharmacy, research and policy).
My Health Story (MHS) Founder Soula Mantalvanos and codirector Theo Mantalvanos enjoyed every minute of connecting, learning, aligning, and plugging MHS to a digital-health-famished audience.
Their standout sentiment aligned with each attendee’s shared mission to improve the quality of care.
MHS was in the best place to boast a unique approach to self-managed care for chronic conditions and to share its goal to position people as data stewards of their health information.
That vision couldn’t cement itself bolder or more novel as the two days unfolded.
Silos of health
Australia’s healthcare medical record situation has been unsuccessful in establishing itself. It’s having another go at reinventing itself as the My Health app.
Many healthcare systems are developing their own personal data handling and communication systems to enhance patient care coordination. This is all happening concurrently but independently, each road sprawling away from the other to a lonely destination.
The DHF audience heard a lot about silos.
The lack of coordinated planning and consideration for communication between groups striving to build the best silo is concerning, as it confuses patients and leaves them outside their care.
For MHS, the goal has always been patient-centred care, gathering the unique story from one source and sharing it with many sources (the whole care team) who can tailor care… faster.
Health information generated in government records (if possible to gather completely) would be very helpful as core information.
The MHS team recognise the importance of going beyond this and identifying patients and their lived experiences individually to tailor care and ease the burden of disease.
Images:
- Founder and co-director of My Health Story (MHS), Soula & Theo Mantalvanos.
- Meeting Talking Health Tech’s Peter Birch
- First address on the main stage of the Digital Health Festival (DHF), Dr Fiona Wood presented The role of digital health in striving for excellence in health outcomes (read Strengthening Medicare Taskforce Report)
- Soula Mantalvanos with Neala Fulia, founder MoreGoodDays
- Soula Mantalvanos & Theo are off to dinner in Melbourne’s CBD
- Soula Mantalvanos & Theo enter day two of the DHF
- Soula Mantalvanos with MHS Advisor and MoreGoodDays content writer, Dr Mandy Mercuri
- Physiotherapist and Program Designer/director Brain Changer Lissanthea Taylor with MHS Founder, Soula Mantalvanos
- Dr Talat Uppal Women’s Health Road presents Real life successes and barriers when implementing digital for MDT practices
- Soula with My Health Match/Wise Psychology CEO & MHS Friend Steven Whittington
- Create modern digital health solutions, NOT more data silos! Presentation by Charles Papp, Founder & CEO KRE8 IT & Richard Davies, Director Digital Transformation, APAC, OutSystems
- T-shirts Soula & Theo planned to wear to DHF made by the brilliant team at goinvo that sadly arrived a day late… to wear at next year’s DHF, if they’re not worn out in the meantime.
