Kathy Hubble
CEO/Founder Amelio Health
Kathy is founder and managing director of Amelio Health. Her passion for pain medicine and patient care was sparked in 1994 whilst working as a Registered Nurse in a high dependency surgical ward, looking after critically ill patients, and their post-operative pain management. Her ambition to learn more about this speciality moved her towards Clinical Nurse Specialist in pain management. This led to studies at New England University in Acute Pain Management and a Masters degree in Pain Medicine at Newcastle University. As a Clinical Nurse Consultant in Pain Management she worked with many pain specialists and multidisciplinary teams in all aspects of acute and chronic pain management.
Kathy opened a private pain clinic in the Southern Highlands NSW and later her work in the life insurance industry provided direct insight into problems associated with chronic pain and claims management in the insurance / return to work (RTW) space.
Kathy and her team offer education and medication management for people living with chronic pain, and practice decision support for rehabilitation consultants. As an industry expert and experienced in complex claims management, Kathy helps her clients overcome the challenges of resource deficiencies and disruptive processes to create innovative and operational excellence in an ever-changing environment.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Bridging The Gap
Chronic pain is a complex problem, made all the worse by pressures from multiple stakeholders for the insurance dollar. The consequences of poor management practices and epistemic injustice has resulted in catastrophic outcomes for claimants and extraordinary cost increases for insurers, employers and individuals. Amelio Health is bridging this gap. Empowering individuals, rehabilitation professionals and employers with knowledge, so they can make informed choices about self-management for work place injuries via digital health technology. Our outcomes are out, and we want to share some insight into what we have learned.