6 November 2008
The 2008 annual PowerHealth Solutions 2-day conference at a beachside resort in Queensland's Sunshine Coast was the best ever yet, with overwhelmingly positive feedback from everyone attending.
What the delegates liked best about the conference was — the networking opportunity, the conference dinner, seeing other users' applications, friendly PHS staff, customer-focused content, good printed material, enhancements voting, problem solving, information on new developments, and training.
Alyson Buckley from St Vincent's Hospital Sydney said, I love these conferences. I come away feeling refreshed and ready to tackle new things in the system, based on advice provided to me.
Delegates described their experience as, Fun, stimulating, worthwhile, relevant, great. Warren Holmes from Canterbury District Health Board said, It was an extremely rewarding experience.
Melita Howes from St Vincent's Hospital Sydney said, This is a good value, informative participative fun meeting. Alyson Buckley also said, It's a great networking time which is important in our jobs.
This conference had a very full programme, with a mix of case studies, information presentations, and training sessions. Theokli Hotzoglou from Lutheran Medical Centre, said, The presentations were not just advertisements for the new products and services — it was really educational.
Ms Chris Dridan from Bendigo Health Care Group said that the programme was very interesting, Topics were of relevance and documentation well set out — enough to refer back at home.
This year saw the continuation of the training sessions introduced last year, with split sessions to cater for both novice and advanced users. Henry Wan from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre thought 
this was the best part of the conference, adding that this made it very very affordable, training everyone at the same time at their appropriate level.
This conference was attended by many more PowerHealth Solutions staff members than previously. Users really appreciated the opportunity to meet staff in person, putting faces to some voices previously only heard over the phone. Visitors from Western Australia who were new to PowerHealth Solutions said, It was a very helpful and friendly group. Staff were always there to add value and address any questions. The conference was very well-organised. Congratulations.
Delegates thoroughly enjoyed themselves at the Conference Dinner held at Underwater World, with limbo dancing and a congo line being performed to the beat of a live Carribean Calypso band, against a vibrant backdrop of tropical coral and sea life. Almost everyone voted the experience as outstanding. Oliver Tatlow-Lord from PowerHealth Solutions said, The atmosphere at the Conference Dinner was fantastic.
Due to a lower than expected attendance, it was decided that this conference would be the last one held for a while. All delegates were unanimously disappointed about this, with some suggesting that future conferences be spaced further apart or to piggy-back onto the bi-annual Casemix Conference.
