The Great Prevention Pivot
We talk incessantly about it, but politics, system momentum, tribal thinking and vested interests keep combining to stymie any meaningful progress towards transitioning our system to prevention. Times up. What are the key blockers in play and how can we start going around them to actually start ‘The Great Prevention Pivot’?
Tuesday June 16th – Wednesday June 17th 2026, Park Hyatt Canberra
A half-day workshop, GREAT DEBATE DINNER, and one-day LEADERS summit
Brought to you by
- Healthcare in the harshest light of our rapidly approaching demographic train crash
- The unfolding reality of aged care, mental health, the NDIS, chronic care, hospitals and the capacity of community healthcare services
- Workforce crash
- Identifying the critical inflection points in the intersection of technology, policy and funding
- Deconstructing key system dynamics to understand points of potential intervention
- The new elephant that just broke down the door
- Are AI plays like ChatGPT Health going to shift information access and power towards patients away from where its always been
- Should government and providers move to work with AI more than govern and control it?
- Practical ideas to meaningfully move the dial on prevention
Tuesday 16 June
Registration
11:30am – 12:00pm
Setting the scene panel: Has AI just flipped our approach to prevention?
12:00pm – 12:40pm
Enjoy a buffet lunch while learning from this expert panel setting the scene for discussions to come.
Speakers:
- Dr Zoran Bolevich, CEO, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Bettina McMahon, CEO, Healthdirect
- Dr Luke Slawomirski, Health Economist, Imperial College, London
- Dr Alison Roberts, Commissioner, Productivity Commission
- Dr Tim Senior, GP, Churchill Fellow and Chair of the RACGP Specific Interest Network in Poverty and Health
DECONSTRUCTING PREVENTION WORKSHOP
12:40pm – 4:30pm
A professionally moderated healthcare leadership workshop looking at what keeps blocking meaningful movement to a prevention system paradigm, and, what strategies might help in moving us all forward.
Chattem House Rules apply.
Topics Include:
- Why we talk about prevention but don’t invest in it or imbed it in strategy – why?
- Can we connect new care models, funding and our emerging AI landscape much better to prevention now?
- Can we reframe prevention for a sellable political ROI?
- How?
Presented and Moderated by Accenture
Sponsors Drinks
5:00pm – 6:00pm
THE GREAT DEBATE
6:00pm-8.00pm
Join us for drinks, grab a plate of food and a seat, and listen our first HSD The Great Debate.
Patients should be able to easily and sensibly connect their My Health Record, and their GP and hospital held data to ChatGPT Health and Claude Health whenever they like?
Moderator: Tom Cashman
Affirmative team: ChatGPT (on screen), Dr John Lambert, Bettina McMahon
Negative Team: Claude Health (on screen), Dr Paul Eleftheriou, Dr Sue Velovski
Wrap: Tom Cashman
Wednesday 17 June
FULL-DAY LEADERS SUMMIT
Registration
7:45am – 8:30am
Welcome
8:30am – 8:40am
What would Dr Kerri Parnell say about ChatGPT Health, current health policy and prevention?
Publisher – Jeremy Knibbs
MC – Tom Cashman
Train Crash
8:40am – 9:05am
Our healthcare demographic time bomb in all its ugly glory.
Simon Kuestenmacher, Co-founder, The Demographics Group
The horrific truth of how our demographics are unfolding over the next 10 years in terms of our ability to meet the demands of health, age and disability care.
Defusing a Time Bomb
9:05am – 9:35am
Panelists:
- Simon Kuestenmacher (Co-Founder and Director, The Demographic Group)
- Dr Luke Slawomirski (Health Economist, Visiting Lecturer, Imperial College, London)
- Dr Tim Senior, GP, Churchill Fellow and Chair of the RACGP Specific Interest Network in Poverty and Health
- Amber Willikin, Group Executive Health Economics and Research, Diabetes Australia
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, HSD Publisher
What are the inflection points of opportunity in our changing demographic for our healthcare leaders and policy makers? How much time do we have? What can’t we avoid and therefore need to plan better for?
Model of Care Case Study 1: Streamliners
9:35am – 9:50am
Morning Tea
9:50am – 10:20am
Panel: the first and last 1000 days
10:20am – 10:55am
- Why the first and last 1000 days are so important to prevention strategy
- The nuts and bolts of money and real prevention
- A reality check and a vision
Speakers:
- Associate Professor Alam Yoosuff, Rural GP, Chair Murrumbidgee PHN
- Janet Zagari, CEO, Canberra HS
- Grainne O’Loughlin, CEO, Karitane
- Felicity Burns, Executive GM Healthcare and Hospitals, HammondCare
Moderated by Hediyeh Vahdat, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Linéaire Projects.
Panel:
Consumer vs provider side AI and prevention
10:55am – 11:25am
- Have ChatGPT and ClaudeHealth turned our digital health plans upside down?
- Is their a goldilocks position on governance that govt and providers need to contemplate?
- Provider side AI vs consumer side integration
- AI and our provider workforce
- Safety… over time
Speakers:
- Dr Jill Freyne, Healthcare Industry Lead, AWS
- Dr Raymond Wen, Chief Growth Officer/Medical Director, Telecare
- Anja Nikolic, CEO, Australasian Institute of Digital Health
- Dr Matt Vickers, Clinical Director, Eucalyptus
Moderated by Associate Professor Emily Kirkpatrick, Managing Director, EKology Group
Interview: DR John Halamka, Mayo Clinic
11:25am – 11:55am
The road to prevention according to Mayo. US challenges vs Australia. What can Australia learn and apply from a highly stressed system?
Dr John Halamka is one of the world’s foremost clinical experts on the use of data in health transformation, AI in health, and digital health. He is president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, a digital initiative that brings together solution developers, data partners and healthcare service providers to transform healthcare.
Interviewed by Jeremy Knibbs, HSD publisher.
Prevention Workshop FINDINGS and TAkeaways
11:55am – 12:25pm
- Strategies to better imbed prevention in strategy
- Defining ROI for and funding prevention better
- Prevention in the context of provider and consumer side health AI
- Audience feedback protocols for whitepaper.
Speakers:
- Dr Michael Wright, President, RACGP
- Trish Clancy, First Assistant Secretary Population Health, Department of Health and Aged Care
- Dr Rachel David, CEO, Private Health Australia
- Dr Luke Slawomirski, Health Economist and Visiting Lecturer, Imperial College, London
Moderated by Travis Grant, Managing Director, ANZ Health Industry Lead, Accenture
Model of Care Case Study 2: Aspen Medical
12:25pm – 12:35pm
Lunch
12:35pm – 1:35pm
Panel: Insurers are pivoting and innovating fast, why not the public sector?
1:45pm – 2:10pm
- Why private health insurance is pivoting so big to prevention
- PHI is going around the public funding model. What does that mean for the system?
- The pros and cons of a set of big new vertically integrated players in our healthcare system
- How far can they go without funding?
- Can the public sector take advantage of these first movers?
Speakers:
- Dr Rachel David, CEO, Private Healthcare Australia
- Adjunct Professor Karen Price, Director HCF, Chair HCF Research Foundation, Chair of the Council of General Practice AMA
- Marc Miller, Senior Director, WTW
- Sarah McRae, CEO, Amplar Health Home Hospital
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher at Health Services Daily
Deep Dive on St Vincent’s New HOlistic Model
2:10pm – 2:30pm
With Dr Rob Marshall, Chief Strategy Officer
Model of Care Case Study 3: Cardihab
2:30pm – 2:40pm
Afternoon Tea
2:40pm – 3:05pm
Model of Care Case Study 4
3:05pm – 3:20pm
Panel:
Consumer AI: friend or foe in transforming our prevention problems
3:20pm – 3:55pm
- HealthDirect Claude and ChatGPT update on how we’d do the digital front door
- Taggart – how would hospitals handle consumer AI in terms of prevention
- Deveny – Consumers? What does she think theuy’re going to be doing with these tools, how can we connect them meaningfully to the system via them
- Barnett – Doctor side AI talking to consumer side AI and how to have the two meet in the middle better for prevention
Speakers:
- Dr Elizabeth Deveny, CEO, Consumers Health Forum Australia
- Dr Richard Taggart, Chief Executive, eHealth NSW
- Bettina McMahon, CEO, Healthdirect (1800MEDICARE)
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, HSD Publisher.
Wrap
3:55pm – 4:00pm
Key points from the day summing up.
Diabetes Australia
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Program, Content and Panelist Enquiries
Talia Meyerowitz-Katz: talia@medicalrepublic.com.au
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Location
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Public Transport
The Hyatt Hotel is 9 Kilometers away from Canberra Airport (CBR), and 5 Kilometers away from Canberra Railway Station.
Parking
Self-Parking
The hotel also offers self-parking. Parking spots for people with disabilities is situated in the undercover car park and conveniently close to the lift, which has direct access to guest-room levels. Wheelchair access is also available at the banquet entrance of the hotel.
Daily $30.00
Street Parking
There are 200 off-street parking spaces surrounding Hyatt Hotel Canberra – A Park Hyatt Hotel, with fees Monday–Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Parking is free on Saturday and Sunday.
Daily $15.50s
Valet Parking
Hyatt Hotel Canberra – A Park Hyatt Hotel offers valet parking.
Daily $55.00
EV Charging
Complimentary EV charging stations for guests are available in the hotel car park.
Getting Here
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
