David Roffe, Chief Information Officer.
Biography
After completing his Electrical Engineering degree and subsequent Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering, David started his career as a research and development engineer specialising in Cardiology and Intensive Care. He was responsible for development of numerous electromedical devices to support clinical patient care and applied research.
David completed an MBA in 1990 and moved into the management of high technology in medicine before he moved into an information technology management role for a large NSW public hospital area health service.
In 1997 David joined the Sisters of Charity Health Service which own the St Vincent's Group of Public and Private hospitals. His role as Chief Information Officer was to integrate the three NSW based IT departments, manage a cultural change process and develop the organisations new IC&T vision and strategy.
David's passion is to support clinicians to provide better practice patient care by the pragmatic application of engineering and computer science. The St Vincent’s Darlinghurst Campus has been using an electronic clinical information system for over 10 years and is now perusing several cutting edge technologies using RFID and voice recognition technologies to enhance clinical communication, efficiency, effectiveness and risk management processes.