Managing Director

Tony Azzam

Tony Azzam leads HealthConsult’s Digital Health practice. With over 30 years of experience in healthcare, he brings a rare mix of clinical insight and digital expertise. Starting out as a critical care nurse, Tony has since led major digital health projects across the public, private and consulting sectors - including EMR rollouts, virtual care systems and digital strategy development. He specialises in delivering practical, people-focused solutions that improve care and drive lasting change.

Tony’s superpower

Tony connects the dots between clinical care, digital technology, and strategy. He’s worked across all parts of the health system  - government, vendors, hospitals, and consultancies  - and brings this perspective to every project.

He’s known for his ability to bring teams together, simplify the complex, and keep the focus on what matters most: better outcomes for patients, staff and the health system as a whole.

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How he got here

  • Led the ieMR Hub and Spoke Rural rollout for 5 of 7 rural facilities within MHHS
  • Led the development of the SLHD Unified Communications Strategy
  • Led the CIO operating model restructure and transformation, including the establishment of an Office of the CCIO in line with evolving service and program delivery requirements for SLHD
  • Was the principal lead of a large and complex service transformation program, including a workforce and operating model transformation, and establishment of a vendor agnostic multi-system product-based delivery and support model for SLHD
  • Co-led the procurement of the Virtual Care Information System (VCIS)
  • Specialty advisory service to the SDPR program in the development of the RFI tender and shortlisting procurement process for eHealth NSW
  • Led an eMR Architecture Review and ICT Initiatives Roadmap to enable real time information sharing between NSWA eMR and NSW Hospital eMRs
  • Developed level 1 and level 2 Ambulance & Mobile Clinician eMR requirements incorporating extensive clinical and executive engagement
  • Developed requirements, architecture definition and static design prototypes for authorisations management for the Real-Time Prescription Monitoring (RTPM) design and business case development
  • Led digital transformation and diagnostic review of The Housing Connection's business and back-office services with a view to digitise their end-to-end delivery
  • Co-led the vendor procurement exercise for HR, finance, payroll, rostering and billing systems, including business process mapping, redesign and requirements development for Seton Villa
  • Led the eMR vendor procurement, pre-implementation planning, and contract negotiations for an enterprise eMR across 16 hospitals at St Vincent's Health Australia
  • Led multiple Stage Gate Assessments of the Core Clinical Systems Renewal Program (CCSRP), as well co-lead of an Independent Quality Assurance review of the Electronic Medication Management (EMM) business case for NT Health
  • Delivered program-wide solution and business architecture, solution integration, design, build (including State Baseline Build) and domain strategy for eHealth NSW
  • Led a team overseeing all aspects of solution design, statewide governance establishment, and delivery oversight for the Cerner Millenium eMR across 228 public hospitals
  • Design Consultant for the FirstNet and Clinical Documentation design, build and implementation across the NSW SBB Program of work as the Managing Solution Architect for Cerner Australia
  • Design Consultant for the Emergency Medicine FirstNet Solution across the England southern cluster eMR design and implementations