Tuesday 17 June

_{HALF-DAY WORKSHOP, FACILITATED BY NOUS GROUP}

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Health Services Daily publisher Jeremy Knibbs chats to key system leaders in Australia and overseas about how a regionally integrated healthcare system model works in other countries, and what Australia might have in common with countries that have managed to build out fully integrated regional management models.  

Speakers:

• Peter O’Halloran, Chief Digital Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency
• Rob Grenfell, Chief Strategy and Regions Officer Grampians Health
• Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary Medicare Benefits and Digital Health at Australian Department of Health
• Sarah Barter, Consumer Advocate
• Stella Ward, CEO Streamliners

Moderated by Bettina McMahon, CEO, Healthdirect.

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• Chatham House Rules, no idea is a bad idea and sharing is obviously caring
• Health leadership from every point of the compass workshopping the practical near term possibilities for better alignment of services and information sharing
• Can key initiatives such as “sharing by default”, the proposed national HIE, existing state based HIE projects and other technology based solutions be enhanced and implemented faster in any ways
• A strawman for a fully integrated regional management pilot in Australia – who, what and where
• Given initiatives like Scope of Practice and technology like AI scribes, can we expedite workforce solutions into the system over the next few years – how?
• Other, based on where feedback from workshop attendees takes us

The workshop will be Chatham house rules in that nothing said by anyone in the workshop will be made publicly available, unless with the written permission of an attendee.

Not withstanding, the workshop will produce a white paper to be distributed through Health Services Daily to garner broader feedback from  the sector.

The workshop will also form the basis for some of the moderation of the summit panels on the next day. 

This event is ticketed with a limited capacity.

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Wednesday 18 June

_{FULL DAY CONFERENCE}

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A panel of healthcare providers, policy makers and technology leaders discuss the significant role that cloud platforms and standards will play to deliver on a vision of one healthcare system.

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What Australia can learn from the experience of significantly enabling healthcare interoperability via policy in the US?

• How we move providers and software vendors onto to standardised cloud based technologies to shift interoperability and system connectedness significantly
• Occam’s razor – by passing wicked and complex fixes for simple existing technologies and networks (e.g., a national Virtual Front Door) 
• Connecting the dots on existing initiatives between state and federal departments of health and their agencies – e.g., PHN enabled access from primary care providers to aged care, mental health services and even hospitals
• A national HIE and the My Health Record

Speakers:

• Simon Cleverley, Assistant Secretary at Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care 
• Joshua Mundey, CEO, Visionflex Group
• Associate Professor David Rowlands, Chair, HL7 Australia

Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, publisher of Health Services Daily and The Medical Republic.

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• Existing regional integrated models in the UK, Canada, and yes, even Australia
• The case for combining tertiary, primary and community care in a region vertically
• Overcoming state and federal roadblocks and fitting a model within our federated system
• Indigenous health as a forward leaning and existing one system model that is working

Speakers:

• Bettina McMahon, CEO, Healthdirect
• Dr Sue Velovski, Specialist General Surgeon at St Vincent’s, Lismore
• Andrew Cohen, CEO, ForHealth
• Associate Professor Alam Yoosuff, Vice President, RDA NSW
• Ray Messom, Immediate Past CEO, WentWest, Principal and Health Lead Canada, Nous Group

Moderated by Dr Paul Eleftheriou, Principal and Co-Lead of Digital Health, Nous Group

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• A practical short term national framework for optimising workforce issues via technology platforms including emerging generative AI software
• Getting practical – non territorial –  about scope of practice
• The big potential short term gains from AI – e.g., AI scribes in general practice
• Practical near term training and education initiatives
• 80/20 on workforce focus

Speakers:

• Anja Nikolic, CEO, Australasian Institute of Digital Health
• Bronwyn Morris-Donovan, CEO,Allied Health Professions Australia 
• Andrew Aho, Regional Director of Data Platforms, InterSystems

Moderated by Dr Emily Kirkpatrick, Managing Director, EKology Health.

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• PHIs and private hospitals work in a more integrated model
• The place of disruptive emerging non medicare based private digital platforms
• Governance of non medicare providers
• Delivering continuity of care with the Medicare provider ecosystem
• Private providers and corporates delivering for the public system
• Are vertical models good or bad for healthcare?

Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of The Medical Republic and Health Services Daily.

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• A path to a sensible balance between fee for service and outcomes based funding
• Rationalising / simplifying the MBS
• Dealing with non sensical and out of whack MBS items
• The place of private health providers and payers in an evolving paradigm
• Does Primary Care funding need to be completely redesigned?
• The role of block funding

Speakers:

• Professor Mary Chiarella AM, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney
• Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary Medicare Benefits and Digital Health at Australian Department of Health
• Andrew Cohen, CEO, ForHealth

Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of The Medical Republic and Health Services Daily.

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• Leaving no one behind? Or bringing everyone with you.
• Flipping the current dynamics of Scope of Practice on its head
• What happens when you break long standing commercial models of system suppliers?
• Federal vs state control balance

Speakers:

• Anja Nikolic, CEO, Australasian Institute of Digital Health
• Bettina McMahon, CEO, Healthdirect
• Dr Danielle McMullen, President, AMA
• Adjunct Professor Karen Price, Past President, RACGP

Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of The Medical Republic and Health Services Daily.

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This is your chance to ask your burning questions that have arisen during the day.

Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of The Medical Republic and Health Services Daily.

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