Thurs 30 July 3:30 – 4:15pm (SA, ASCT)
The Hidden Complexity of EHR Data:
Why Healthcare AI Is Hard?
Dr Verghese is a Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and Intensive Care Specialist with a strong interest in data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and electronic medical record (EMR) implementation across South Australia.
At SA Health, he lead digital health initiatives that focus on integrating advanced data solutions, enhancing EMR systems, and improving healthcare outcomes through technology.
His dual expertise in clinical practice and informatics enables me to design and implement strategies that meet the complex demands of both critical care and healthcare data systems. As an intensivist, he prioritises the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care, leveraging EMR systems, predictive analytics, and AI to streamline clinical workflows and support timely, data-driven decision-making.
Dr Verghese’s work in EMR implementation across South Australia has strengthened interoperability, clinical documentation, and care coordination, driving consistency and efficiency in how care is delivered statewide.
Realize the Future of EHR Data with this exciting Round Table event.
Data Visualisation of the Future
Chat with Dr Santosh Verghese, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) at our round table.
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Thurs 30 July 3:30 – 4:15pm (SA, ASCT)
The future of patient data analysis
The Hidden Complexities
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The Future: An AI driven medical dashboard
Why is Health Care AI so Hard?
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Do you have an Unsolved Puzzle?
About The Unsolved Puzzles Round Table Series
Decoding Complex Clinical Problems with Informatics is a HIKM ACM initiative inviting clinicians, researchers, health practitioners, and lived-experience advocates to bring complex, unresolved health problems to the health informatics community.
Each session frames a real clinical or public-health challenge where fragmented data, delayed diagnosis, disconnected services, or hidden patterns prevent timely care. Rather than presenting finished solutions, the series creates a collaborative forum where informaticians can listen, question, map the problem, and identify how data, systems thinking, interoperability, decision support, and knowledge management may help reveal the missing pieces.
Why work with us?
Bring the Whole Picture to the Table
Some health problems remain unsolved because no single discipline, service, dataset or family story contains the whole picture. HIKM invites clinicians, allied health practitioners, researchers, advocates, families and informatics experts to examine complex problems together.
Find the Pattern the System Keeps Missing
When symptoms, observations and records are scattered across settings, the pattern can remain invisible for years. The Unsolved Puzzle Series asks whether health informatics can help connect fragmented evidence into earlier recognition, better pathways and clearer decisions.
Turn Complexity into a Researchable Question
The hardest clinical and public-health problems often begin as confusion: repeated referrals, delayed diagnosis, inconsistent data, unmet needs and no clear pathway forward. HIKM round tables help translate lived and clinical complexity into problems informatics researchers can investigate.
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Enquiries@hikm.acm.org