Dr Lance Emerson is Deputy Secretary, eHealth Division in the Department of Health, Victoria. eHealth’s vision is to deliver excellence in analytics and digital technology, to drive better health and world-class healthcare for all Victorians. The eHealth Division does this by innovating, supporting and improving the provision of data, analytics, secure ICT and digital health systems for the Department of Health, all of Victorian Government, the Victorian health system and consumers. He was previously CEO of the Victorian Agency for Health Information (VAHI), , where he drove improvements in safety and quality in Victorian health services through the provision of analytics and high quality health service performance information. Lance has a passion for development and maintenance of information systems to improve consumer care, and has a PhD in the use of clinical indicators to guide better care and improve health outcomes. He has extensive experience in running specialist health organisations, having most recently been CEO of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) and prior to that, CEO of the Australian Research and Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY). Lance is also a Board Director of the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, is an avid cyclist, (very) amateur musician and parent of six children.
