ground, just describe what they are experiencing, what are they seeing and dealing with there? it is extremely difficult, depending on where you are in the country. from what i understand there are parts of therefore in the south and various other locations that are not as directly affected by the fighting like we have seen in al thatcher. the hospital has come under attack, been looted, and parts of it burnt. it is a referral hospital where one would have preferred a severely wounded patient. it is just impossible for the medical community in situations like that to be able to provide the assistance that is absolutely life saving and essential and in a conflict zone where you have people coming in with severe injury, shrapnel rooms, gunshot wounds and all the things you could imagine. time is of the essence to treat them
Mal Thatcher named as Australian Digital Health Agency CTO Written by Kate McDonald on
19 January 2021.
Former Queensland Health chief health information officer and Mater Health CIO Mal Thatcher has been named as the Australian Digital Health Agency’s (ADHA) new chief technology officer.
Dr Thatcher was CIO of Mater Health in Brisbane for almost 11 years, where he led the development of its Smart Hospital strategy, and was an adjunct professor at QUT before taking on the inaugural role of chief health information officer with Queensland Health in September 2014.
The CHIO office was merged into eHealth Queensland in 2015 and Mr Thatcher left to do his PhD on IT governance in acute healthcare.