Associate Professor Amith Shetty is the Acting Chief Executive of eHealth NSW, the dedicated agency responsible for transforming and delivering ICT and digital capabilities across NSW Health.
He has held several senior clinical and non-clinical leadership roles in emergency departments, health services and most recently has been the Clinical Director in the System Sustainability and Performance division for NSW Health.
Amith is an emergency physician whose passion for driving value in healthcare through the improved use of digital insights and technology has led to him spearheading several first–time innovations. This includes the Pathology IoT device integration and cloud analytics project, real-time risk trigger monitoring in hospitals, and virtual home care models. His doctorate in sepsis screening also resulted in the development of an ED screening algorithm that’s being tested and implemented in NSW hospitals including eHealth Sepsis AI screening tool in Western Sydney.
He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Digital Health at University of Sydney, Adjunct fellow at Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Macquarie University, and honorary research fellow at the Westmead Institute for Medical research.
He has previously worked for eHealth NSW as a clinical advisor to help guide system design and is pleased to return to the organisation to help drive statewide ICT transformations