It’s crunch time for many of Australia’s health facilities, which face an increasing need to house sophisticated new hardware in ageing infrastructure.
Now Mitchell Cadden, a member of Thinc’s ACT team based at Canberra Hospital, will help facility managers in hospitals across Australia take on the challenges of adapting to the information age.
Mitch has just been elected national president of the Institute of Hospital Engineering, Australia. The IHEA represents hospital engineers, facility managers, architects and builders working in public and private health care across the nation.
“My priority as president is to help our Institute consolidate after a period of significant growth,” said Mitch. “I’m also keen to develop new strategies for meeting the technological challenges of the Australian health care sector.”
He gave the example of the introduction of technology which is unserviceable by traditional maintenance methods.
“It’s an era of ‘electronic everything’,” he said. “That offers enormous benefits but it also requires the careful management of change in workplaces affected by new technologies.”
Before taking on his role as national president, Mitch had served on the national board of the IHEA since 2007 and was Vice President from 2009 to 2011. He also served as state president in NSW from 2008 to 2011.
His stint at the head of the IHEA will last two years.
