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.