AAMBER.io
simulated emr software for health education
Industry expertise. Engineering excellence. Experience-led design.
WHAT WE DO
AAMBER is an Australian EdTech established to address digital health training requirements in the health education sector. Underpinned by industry expertise, engineering and research excellence, and experience-led design, we aim to progress healthcare practice through the delivery of innovative, high quality digital health education to our future workforce.
A passionate team of developers, creatives and domain experts who share a common vision: transform the future of digital health training in Australia and beyond.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Pip Gent
Co-Founder / Academic Liaison
Pip is an academic with experience teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students across a number of health disciplines. She has clinical expertise in both paramedicine and nursing, specialising in acute care. Pip contributes to excellence in learning and teaching through her role in specialised curriculum development. As a project coordinator, her focus is on digital health, including the integration of electronic patient care records across the health disciplines, embedding a digital perspective in undergraduate curriculum and expanding the digital health opportunities at a university level.
In recognition of her significant contribution to the paramedicine programs at ACU, Pip has been awarded the honorary title of Clinical Fellow. Pip has a Master of Health Professional Education in which her thesis explored the professional development practice and needs of operational paramedics. She is a registered nurse and paramedic and has strong industry relationships. Pip’s clinical and educational knowledge and experience coupled with her digital health focus makes her a fundamental team member at AAMBER.
Rhiannon Phillips
Co-Founder / Creative Director
Rhiannon is a highly capable multi-disciplinarian. With a career focused on the digital and creative industries, she has worked as a director, producer, curator, general manager, game designer, game artist, sound designer and financial controller.
Through a long term collaboration with Wildfire Studios, Rhiannon developed and invested in seven commercial video games including the best-selling Tumblebugs franchise (70+m downloads), working variously as game designer, producer, artist and sound designer.
Through Double Dash Interactive, Rhiannon has worked on diverse and complex software projects for industries ranging from digital health to farming, mining and manufacturing.
Rhiannon is an Adjunct Industry Fellow for the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research and holds a Bachelor of Music with honours from the University of Queensland.
The AAMBER collaboration reflects long-term passions for software design, education and digital health.
Darren Baker
Technical Advisor
Darren has been developing commercial software since 1992. He co-founded video game developer Wildfire Studios in 1995, served as CTO and CEO for 17 years, then turned his attention to Double Dash.
Darren has built low level digital audio libraries, realtime 3D engines, physics simulators, tools, PC and console games, mobile and web apps. He regularly works in C++, Scheme, Ruby, C# and SQL. His technical interests include relational databases, distributed systems, data oriented design, code optimisation, and computer vision.
Outside of running his own businesses, Darren worked in fintech for several years, notably for lender Nimble where he developed the machine learning engine powering the first automated decisioning system to be approved by ASIC. Darren holds a Bachelor of Information Technology from the University of Queensland.