Towards One Healthcare System Summit
Tuesday 17 – Wednesday 18 June 2025, at QT Canberra, 1 London Cct, Canberra ACT 2601
Brought to you by Health Services Daily, Wild Health and The Medical Republic.
A half-day workshop and one-day summit, bringing together key thought leaders from state and federal governments and agencies, hospitals, PHNs, primary, specialist and allied care provider groups, consumer health advocates, private health insurers and leading technology vendors, to examine what practical steps we could take from here to help better align current disparate policies, regulation, initiatives, technology and politics towards a framework that would facilitate our entire healthcare system operating more like it was one integrated system.
The event is not about moonshot ideas.
It will aim to surface and discuss obvious, practical and achievable initiatives to shift the system away from the many redundancies and inefficiencies that have built up as natural consequence of a federated model of funding and care and a now large legacy technology base.
Speakers include:
- Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary Medicare Benefits and Digital Health at Australian Department of Health
- Simon Cleverley, Assistant Secretary at Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
- Anja Nikolic, CEO, Australasian Institute of Digital Health
- Bettina McMahon, CEO, Healthdirect
- Dr Danielle McMullen, President, AMA
- Andrew Cohen, CEO, ForHealth
- Dr Zoran Bolevich, CEO, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Professor Mary Chiarella AM, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney
- Dr Sue Velovski, Specialist General Surgeon at St Vincent’s, Lismore
- Associate Professor Alam Yoosuff, Vice President, RDA NSW
- Adjunct Professor Karen Price, Past President, RACGP
- Rob Grenfell, Chief Strategy and Regions Officer Grampians Health
- Associate Professor David Rowlands,Chair, HL7 Australia
- Dr Emily Kirkpatrick, Managing Director, EKology Health
- Bronwyn Morris-Donovan, CEO,Allied Health Professions Australia
- Dr Paul Eleftheriou, Principal and Co-Lead of Digital Health, Nous Group
- Ray Messom, Immediate Past CEO, WentWest, Principal and Health Lead Canada, Nous Group
- Raj Verma, Principal, Nous Group
- Dr Michael Bonning, GP and Immediate Past President, AMA (NSW)
- Dr Michael Millard, Director, Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression
- Sarah Barter, Consumer Advocate
- Dr Max Mollenkopf, Owner Whitebridge Medical Centre
- Joshua Mundey, CEO, Visionflex Group
- Andrew Aho, Regional Director of Data Platforms, InterSystems
- Matthew Galetto, Found and Chief Executive Officer, MediRecords
- Dr Andrew Wilson, Group Chief Medical Officer, Medibank
And many more to come.
TUESDAY 17 JUNE
HALF-DAY WORKSHOP, FACILITATED BY NOUS GROUP
Registration
11:30am – 12:00pm
Welcome and acknowledgement of country
12:00pm – 12:10pm
‘Setting the Scene’ Lunch Panel – Food for Thought
12:00pm – 12:10pm
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.
Lunch for workshop participants
12:30pm – 1:30pm
One Healthcare System Workshop, Moderated by Nous in association with DOHAC and in partnership with the AIDH
1:30pm – 5:00pm
- 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.
Welcome drinks
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Welcome networking drinks for all workshop and summit attendees.
WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE
FULL-DAY CONFERENCE
Leadership Breakfast sponsored by MediRecords (invite only)
7:15am – 8:15am
What a difference the cloud makes, sponsored by MediRecords.
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.
Registration
8:30am – 8:55am
Welcome and Introduction – Get on Board
8:55am – 9:00am
Interview
9:00am – 9:30am
Jeremy Knibbs interviews a senior Australian and Canadian Healthcare leader and about the concept of One Healthcare System and the possibilities for system transformation in Australia
What changes to our technology base can we do over and above any structural and/or funding reform
9:30am – 10:15am
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
Case Study TEDx 1: Telstra Health
10:15am – 10:25am
A case study from one of our sponsors illustrating seamless data sharing via cloud technology.
Strawman: A vertically integrated healthcare system management model in Australia?
10:25am – 11:00am
- 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
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of The Medical Republic and Health Services Daily.
Morning Tea
11:00am – 11:30am
Workforce, technology and AI
11:30am – 12:15pm
Facilitated by Dr Emily Kirkpatrick, Managing Director of EKology Health.
- 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
Case Study TEDx 2:
12:15pm – 12:25pm
A case study from one of our sponsors in emerging AI technology that is contributing significantly to the workforce problem.
The role of the private sector and public private partnerships in a one system model
12:25am – 1:10pm
- 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.
Case Study TEDx 3
1:10pm – 1:20pm
A sponsored case study from an emerging non-Medicare provider.
Lunch
1:20pm – 2:20pm
Evolution not revolution of funding models
2:20pm – 3:00pm
- 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
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of The Medical Republic and Health Services Daily.
Case Study TEDx 4
3:00pm – 3:10pm
A case study from one of our sponsors in delivery of virtual healthcare to solve workforce issues.
Afternoon Tea
3:10pm – 3:40pm
Coping with the politics and emotion of system change within a system that is changing
3:40pm – 4:15pm
- 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
Case Study TEDx 5:
4:15pm – 4:25pm
Ask the Experts: Q&A with key speakers from the day
4:25pm – 5:00pm
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.
Wrap
5:00pm
Key points from the day summing up.
Daniel McCabe
First Assistant Secretary - Medicare Benefits and Digital Health, Department of Health and Aged Care
Program, Content and Panelist Enquiries
Talia Meyerowitz-Katz: talia@medicalrepublic.com.au
QT Canberra
Address
1 London Circuit, Canberra ACT, Majura, 2601, Australia
Getting Here
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Registration Enquiries
Talia Meyerowitz-Katz: talia@medicalrepublic.com.au
Program, Content and Panelist Enquiries
Talia Meyerowitz-Katz: talia@medicalrepublic.com.au
Partnership Opportunity Enquiries
Michelle O’Brien: michelle@wildhealth.net.au
