As healthcare systems become increasingly digital, effective clinical governance must extend beyond clinical practice to encompass the information, technology, and governance structures that underpin safe, high-quality care. This webinar will explore how clinical governance, digital transformation, and Indigenous leadership can work together to improve quality, safety, transparency, and equity across health services.
Drawing on nationally significant work across Aotearoa New Zealand, Doug Healey will share practical insights from leading major oral health digital initiatives within Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. The session will examine how strong information governance, high-quality data, and collaborative governance models can support better clinical decision-making, more consistent services, and improved patient outcomes at a national level.
Doug will also discuss the importance of embedding Māori perspectives into governance, service design, and digital strategy, demonstrating how meaningful partnership can help organisations move beyond compliance to achieve more equitable and culturally responsive healthcare.
Whether you are a healthcare leader, clinician, quality professional, digital health specialist, or governance practitioner, this webinar will provide valuable perspectives on the future of clinical governance in an increasingly digital health environment.
Doug Healey
Manager, Hauora Māori ICT at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
Member of the National Oral Health Clinical Network
Doug Healey is Manager, Hauora Māori ICT at Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora and a member of the National Oral Health Clinical Network. His work sits at the intersection of clinical governance, digital transformation, health equity, and information governance. Doug has spent much of his career working alongside clinicians, executives, communities, and digital teams to ensure technology supports safer care, better decision-making, and improved health outcomes. A key focus of his work is ensuring Māori perspectives are represented in governance, service design, and digital strategy, helping organisations move beyond compliance toward meaningful partnership and equitable outcomes.
Doug is currently leading several nationally significant oral health digital initiatives across Aotearoa New Zealand. This includes work to establish a nationally governed oral health information foundation, improve data quality and consistency, strengthen clinical and information governance, and modernise the Titanium oral health management environment used across public oral health services. The work addresses long-standing variation in systems, reporting, and information standards and is helping create a more connected, sustainable, and trusted digital future for oral health services. A central theme of this programme is how clinical governance, digital governance, and Indigenous perspectives can work together to improve quality, safety, transparency, and equity at a national scale.
