Consultants and Associates

Peter MacIsaac - Director and Senior Consultant

Dr. Peter MacISAAC is an independent health informatics and policy consultant with a background as a medical and Informatics advisor to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, in rural general practice, and epidemiology. He is a member of several HL7 and standards committees. In 2005 he lead the first national health IT interoperability demonstration and is leading the preparations for the 2006 demonstration which involves 20 organisations. Peter was the high level architect for the original iteration of MediConnect in 1999/2000 and Australia national terminology strategy until taken over by NEHTA in 2004. He has managed the international collaboration on medicines terminology (ListerHill Group) and played a leadership role while working for DoHA on the HL7 process for specifying an approach to medicines terminology. Peter has been an active participant in the international development team of the IHE XDS profile and has been an early proponent in Australia of the IHE approach and next generation of HL7 standards including Clinical Document Architecture.

Paul Clarke - Senior Consultant (Jam Pac Consulting)
Paul CLARKE is a health informatics consultant with a clinical laboratory management, research, computing and health informatics consulting background spanning ore than 25 years. Prior to establishing JamPac Consulting in 2001, he was a Director of the Health and Community Services consulting practice for KPMG. He was the principal consultant on the Department of Human Services (Victoria) regional integrated PACS / RIS project. . Paul has substantial project director / manager and QA manager experience with large clinical and laboratory systems implementations for NSW Health and laboratory systems development. He has been engagement manager and principal consultant on a number of major consultancies for the DoHA across a range of projects, including electronic prescribing, general practice automation, BMMS / MediConnect and HealthConnect, and has completed a range of consultancies as a principal consultant and specialist advisor for NEHTA (including the National Health Identifier business case, the Australian Medicines and Devices Terminology (AMDT) project, Clinical terminology business case, review of shared EHR’s, and the National products and identification standards project).
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Bernie Crowe - Senior Consultant (Bernard Crowe and Associates)

Bernard CROWE is a consultant in health technology assessment and has a twenty year history of close involvement with major hospitals in implementation and evaluation of new technology involving PACS, Radiology Information Systems, Telemedicine and Hospital Information Systems, both in Australia and New Zealand after completing a Master of Public Health Degree at Sydney University, he joined the Federal Department of Health in Canberra in 1980 and was project officer for the Australian MRI Assessment Project (1984-92) and an adviser to the Ministry of Health, British Columbia, Canada on MRI policy. This was followed by reviews of CT and Ultrasound in public hospitals, the installation of a PACS at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, the first pilot project of teleradiology at the Children’s Hospital in Sydney and installation of PACS and Computed Radiography (CR) at St. Vincents Hospital (Melbourne).

Michael Legg and Associates

Dr. Michael Legg, is a health informatics consultant specializing in supporting pathology information systems. He has conducted several strategic planning projects and is involved in Australian Health Informatics standards through Standards Australia. He is chair of the Health Informatics Society of Australia. He is visiting Professor in the Health Informatics Research Centre University of Wollongong and Chair of the Standards Australia Working Group IT-14-6-5 that has carriage of the Australian for Diagnostic Image Messaging. His role will be to facilitate team meetings and consultation workshops as well as providing strategic input from previous work in the pathology sector.

David More

David MORE: With 20 years involvement in health informatics, Dr More has an extensive consulting experience on a background as a clinical specialist and IT leadership and management. He was formerly Director of IT and Health Consulting at Ernst & Young and is an Adjunct Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Canberra.

Jon Hilton - Senior Consultant
Jon HILTON is the Project Manager, Inner South Community Health Services HealthSMART Client Information Management Systems Implementation Project, Project Manager, St Vincent’s Health HARP Information System, Project Quality Assurance, Eastern Health HARP Information Management and Business Systems Project. Jon has 25 years experience with Information Technology, and particular experience in General Practice, government funded community health, and Acute Health services. He also has managed many successful IT projects and is an accredited trainer in software project management. An electronic referral system originally conceived by Jon in 1997 (now called the Eastern Region Service Coordination System) has users located in over 50 services across a range of primary, community and hospital based healthcare providers. Jon developed and implemented an information management strategy for the Hospital Risk Admissions Program (HARP) at St Vincent’s Health in Melbourne and continues to work with Acute Health services to develop information management strategies as this program is ‘mainstreamed’ within Victorian healthcare.