Chris Boyd Skinner

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Talking HealthTech · 621 - From Innovation to Adoption: Solving the Digital Health Distribution Problem at Scale · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Full moon phone calls, that's extraordinary, Bosena.

Thanks for having me on the pod, Pete.

Um I'm a critical nurse by a critical care nurse by backgrounds.

Um and I spent quite a lot of my time working in units where the entire patient record was on paper.

Um the obs chart hung at the end of the bed and the drug chart often lived in a folder shell somewhere else.

So um I think the conversation today is a really nice opportunity to talk about how far we've moved.

And I guess in terms of my other background, I've worked on clinical governance at the Australian Digital Health Agency and also on the digital patient safety programme at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality and Healthcare.

So it's great to be with you today.

Yeah, it's a fair question, Pete.

And I think in many ways both Bettina and Erlen are right a that the problem really isn't about the innovation.

I don't think we're short of good tools and you only had to walk around the start up village at Digital Health Festival a couple of weeks ago to see that Australia's just become this incredible hotbed of health technology at the moment.

I think what we're actually short of is tools that survive contact with the real clinical day or the workflow.

And I think something important that I learned working in a paper-based environment clinically is that, you know, that clinical policy that sits in a binder in the nurses' station, you know, many in many ways may uh not have even existed.

It's the the tools and uh the resources um that were within reach

uh are the ones that were primarily trusted and made the job of a clinician much easier.

And I think the same logic applies to digital health now.

A clinician doesn't necessarily need to adopt a tool because it's been approved somewhere.

They adopt it when they can answer that one question without thinking hard.

Can I trust this enough to act on it for this patient in this context right now and stand behind a decision afterwards.

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