Who We Are

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      • Meet the team

        The EpiSoft core team is small but very experienced in every conceivable aspect of IT and in health informatics in particular.

        Below are summary biographies of the team.

      • Jenny O'Neill

        Jenny is Director Business Development of EpiSoft and Executive Director of EpiSoft. Jenny has 18 years' experience in public and private health sectors including 6 years in public health services research, 12 years in health IT and health informatics and 6 years in eResearch.

        Major areas of strength include: health informatics project management, business development, business planning and relationship management. Specific domain expertise in detailed design of software systems for late phase research, chronic disease management, clinical system interoperability, acute care clinical and administrative systems for operating theatres, health system billing and claiming, cancer care, hospital departmental scheduling and patient administration.

        Additional skills include: technology marketing, implementation, benefits evaluations and managing consensus-based, industry-wide ehealth standards development projects. Former roles include New South Wales based National Manager, eBusiness Development Manager for a global pharmaceutical company, Manager Healthcare Solutions Development for start-up THELMA and National E-Commerce Project Manager for the Australian Private Hospitals and Australian Health Insurance Associations.

        Jenny has an Honours degree in Science (Psychology) and a Masters in Public Health. She is a member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) and has been in the past member of various Standards Australia Health Informatics Committee including former Chair of the Billing and Claiming sub-committee and Commonwealth delegate to the United Nations electronic health data standards committee. She is an elected representative to the Board of the Medical Software Industry Association, MSIA representative on the National Prescribing Service Study Guidance Group into quality electronic prescribing decision support and MSIA representaive on the AIHW eHealth & Statistics working party.

        Jenny wrote the requirements specification for the EpiSoft system and designed the user interface. She continues to work on all aspects of user interface design and requirements for system enhancements for existing and new communities.

      • Michael Hurse

        Michael is Director Client Services of EpiSoft and Executive Director of EpiSoft. Michael has 24 years experience in IT, 13 in management, covering infrastructure, support, software development and eHealth business development over the past 7 years.

        Major areas of strength include: futurist thinking and trnaslation into business practice, critical analysis of business issues; decision support systems; understanding of human factors in IT design. Specific applied stregnths in health industry analysis and niche exploration, design and delivery of systems for chronic disease self-management, population health management, clinical system data extraction, indigenous health management including experimental funding models such as regional fund holding, and evidence-based marketing.

        Additional strengths include: facilitating collaboration across diverse groups; strong networking skills, customer engagement and satisfaction. A creative visionary, with the ability to define problems involving people processes and tools then generate and develop solutions at any level of business need. Former roles include National Manager, eBusiness Development for a glocal pharmaceutical company and National Support Manager for a global pharmaceutical company in which role he received five awards for excellence in three years.

        In recognition of his contribution to health It, Michael was invited in 2003 to become a Board member of the Health Informatics Society of Australia (Queensland branch) where he continues to be an active member of the Board. He is a recent past member of the national board of HISA (Queensland delegate).

        Michael designed the database for the EpiSoft system and continues to work on all aspects of development of the system including database enhancements, business logic, front-end coding and reporting.

      • Christopher Laffey

        Chris is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years experience in public practice and Finance Director of EpiSoft. Chris is Director of Leenane Templeton Chartered Accountants and assists a variety of clients in samll and medium businesses with their taxation, accounting and financial administration functions. He has been involved in the commercialisation of Intellectual Property and IPOs in the health and human resource sectors as well as investment and divestment of businesses in a veity of industry sectors including property and retail.

        Chris is a member of the Australian Institute of Management and Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a Director on several company Boards including EpiSoft.

      • Gavin Bennett

        Gavin leads the architecture and ongoing development of the EpiSoft system. He has picked up and managed the EpiSoft system source code in a very short space of time and produces great quality work to tight deadlines. To date, we have not found a technical challenge that Gavin has not been able to solve quickly and efficiently. He has proven himself a great asset to our team.

        Gavin has 10 years in software development and business intelligence solutions, including 8 years' experience in various versions of MS SQL Server, 7 years programming using .NET/C#, 10 years in Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Analysis and Crystal Reports, 7 years in Business Objects Analysis and 7 years in Business Objects Enterprise.

        Major areas of strength include: software development and database performance optimisation using Oracle and MS SQL Server platforms, business intelligence solutions, data warehousing, application design and development and systems integration using web services and MS BizTalk.

        Past roles have included lead software developer and senior consultant in numerous industry verticals including finance and investments, government, hospitality, entertainment and travel, and health. He has experience designing and developing large-scale consumer systems for the Internet and mobile technologies including development of websites for mobile devices and integration of web and Interactive Video Voice Response technologies.