About Mrs Jane Connolly

Jane Connolly has been serving as the ACRRM Digital Health Program Coordinator since 2013 and certified as a Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) in 2019. Jane has worked in the digital health industry for 30 years, starting in the UK, before moving to Australia in 2000. Jane has worked for small niche organisations such as Alphapharm and ASCribe and also large government organisations, such as Queensland Health.

Significant projects for Queensland Health (QH) included connecting to the national Healthcare Identifier Service and implementing the national CDA version of the electronic discharge summary.

Jane managed QH connecting to My Health Record (known at PCEHR at the time) in 2013 and received a QH award for ‘excellence in project management and delivery within the health industry’. Whilst working for national eHealth Transition Authority (NeHTA), now known as the Australian Digital Health Agency she was the project manager for the medication management and ePrescribing program.

In the last 10 years at ACRRM, Jane has played a crucial role in supporting rural doctors and rural communities in their use of digital health technologies to improve healthcare delivery. The Tele-Derm service and the Telehealth Clinical Skills Program, are two of her primary responsibilities at ACRRM in addition to establishing rural specific digital health policies, standards and guidelines.