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Join us for our Making Digital Health REAL! Series (MDHR!) on Wednesday 18 September 2024 with Dr Hannah Wallace, MBBS (Hons.), FRACP.

Our Making Digital Health REAL! series are held fortnightly on a Wednesday via Zoom and designed to enhance the practical learnings of digital health and informatics. Our speakers will provoke thought, exchange the latest knowledge and ideas, and provide industry insight. This series is ideal for you if you are a clinician or researcher with an interest in digital health and informatics.

Title: Patient Empowered Monitoring - the journey of developing a remote patient monitoring program for patients with chronic comorbidity

In this seminar Hannah will present her work in developing a remote patient monitoring application for patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease, in partnership with industry. She will discuss the process from design and testing, through to piloting the program. Hannah will share some of her key learnings from this project thus far including considerations and challenges in converting medical knowledge to algorithmic rules, determining if an application is a medical device and highlighting the importance of the care process around the intervention.

About this event

Set in rural Australia in 1971, Aaron Wilson’s film Little Tornadoes encapsulates the era’s numerous upheavals, such as immigration, post-war resettlement, anti-Vietnam War protests, and the women’s liberation movement. The story follows a man’s struggle to adapt to new circumstances and a new Italian immigrant’s journey to find her place in a foreign land. Little Tornadoes paints a picture of a country at a pivotal moment, highlighting the complexity of the migrant experience and the human yearning for connection. Key interpreters in the film include Mark Leonard Winter, Silvia Colloca, and Fabio Motta.

Aaron Wilson, born and raised in rural Australia, always had a fascination with stories exploring the concept of the “other.” His feature film, Little Tornadoes, co-written with renowned Australian author Christos Tsiolkas, premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2021. For this work, Wilson received the Australian Director’s Guild Award for Best Direction in a Narrative Feature Film.

Fabio Motta is an accomplished actor, clown, and teaching artist with a diverse international experience. He has honed his craft through extensive training and performances across Italy, the United States, and Australia. In Little Tornadoes, Motta’s character brings to life the themes of change, adaptation, and the immigrant experience in 1970s rural Australia.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Riccardo Amorati at riccardo.amorati@unimelb.edu.au

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