Can your healthcare systems withstand real-world pressure? 

• Resilient infrastructure determines whether healthcare services continue or fail under pressure. 
  
  
• Many organisations face rising risk due to fragmented systems, unclear data ownership and untested resilience. 
  
  
• Strengthening digital foundations enables secure, compliant care while preparing for AI and future service models.

Healthcare organisations don’t fail under ideal conditions. They fail under pressure – during a cyber incident, an audit, a workforce shortage or a system outage. In those moments, infrastructure determines whether care continues or stops.

Across Australia, healthcare leaders are balancing rising cyber threats, strict data sovereignty requirements and growing operational complexity. Yet many are still operating with fragmented systems, unclear data ownership and resilience that hasn’t been tested at scale. 

This executive briefing goes beyond theory. It shows how leading organisations are strengthening their digital foundations to support secure, compliant and uninterrupted care – while creating a platform for AI, automation and future models of care. 

• A practical self-assessment to benchmark your infrastructure across  cybersecurity, sovereignty, resilience, connectivity and cost

• Clear guidance on healthcare data sovereignty, compliance and governance in Australia

• Real-world perspectives on cyber resilience in healthcare and threat-informed decision-making

• How to modernise legacy estates and move to cloud without disrupting clinical operations 

• Six critical questions to expose risk – and a 30-day plan to take action

Infrastructure is no longer an IT concern. It is a clinical, financial and regulatory risk decision.

The organisations getting this right are designing infrastructure around:

• Data flow and decision-making speed

• Proven recovery and resilience under pressure

• Clear data ownership and sovereignty

• Cost transparency linked to care outcomes

Sanja Marais, Former Chief Technology and Security Officer, Marais Consulting 
Sanja Marais has over 25 years of hands-on technical leadership experience. She has led digital transformation, cybersecurity and AI innovation for one of Australia's most globally ambitious healthcare organisations, Aspen Medical. She now leads her own consulting practice, Marais Consulting.

Dr Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Optus Chair and Professor of Digital Health, La Trobe University 
Dr Nilmini Wickramasinghe leads research within the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. She works closely with leading hospitals to explore how digital technologies can reshape the patient journey and improve clinical outcomes. 

Lou Compagnone, Director of Artificial Intelligence, Datacom 
Lou Compagnone leads AI strategy and practice across Australia and New Zealand. With more than 20 years in technology, she has worked across UX, service design, strategy and digital transformation. She works closely with organisations in regulated sectors, including government and healthcare, and she focuses on the fundamentals with governance, data quality and skilling addressed upfront to deliver AI at scale. 

Mike Weinstock, Cyber Uplift Lead, Datacom 
Mike Weinstock brings decades of experience across technical operations and executive leadership. At Datacom, he leads Cyber Uplift, focused on raising the overall security maturity of organisations undergoing digital transformation. A key part of that work is helping teams understand how the threat landscape is evolving and what that means for their risk exposure.