Roadmap to Successful Digital Health Ecosystems, 2nd Edition

Evelyn Hovenga, RN, PhD, FACS, FANC, FIAHSI, currently manages eHealth Education, an RTO, and the not-for-profit Global eHealth Collaborative (GeHCo) and continues to work as a digital health consultant. She retired as Professor of Health Informatics in 2007, following a 25-year career in this discipline with a focus on standards development as these apply to EHRs, semantic interoperability, and terminology. She is also Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education, University College London.

Evelyn started her career as a registered nurse and has health executive, public service, educational, and research experience. She obtained a PhD in Health Administration (Nursing Informatics), initiated and hosted the first National Health Informatics Conference (HIC) in Melbourne in 1993, and is one of the founders of HISA and the Australasian College of Health Informatics. She is also a founding fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI), Geneva. Evelyn is widely published and is an honorary member of the International Medical Informatics Association’s Nursing Informatics SIG as a result of representing Australian nurses from 1984 for many years, as a member and Past Chair of this group.

Heather Grain

Heather Grain, ADip HIM, Dip TDD, GDip IS, MHI, FAIDH, FMU, FIAHSI, possesses international expertise in developing, implementing, and managing digital health systems and data governance. A leader in electronic health record systems, she has worked across multiple countries and held significant roles in health informatics at organizations such as ISO, HL7, and SNOMED International. Currently, she leads the Information Governance Ad Hoc Group for ISO TC215.

As an educator, Heather has guided many into health informatics, developing courses for eHealth Education and several universities. She designed the Electronic Health Records Online Learning (eHRoL) clinical coding simulation and training tool for the Global eHealth Collaborative (GeHCo). With a strong understanding of both the practical and theoretical aspects of digital health, she emphasizes the importance of data harmonization to reduce costs and improve healthcare outcomes, while working to advance skills and education strategies in digitally supported healthcare.