Agenda

Opening Remarks from Chair

A look at current policy and the future of healthcare in Australia

• Outlining the Implementation Plan
• The benefits of the Medicare Locals
• Advancing health infrastructure in regional Australia
• Understanding the hospital networks and improving the structural system
• Examining the funding roles of the national and local government agencies
• Where the National Health Reform Agreement will lead us

Professor John Dwyer AO, Professor of Medicine, UNSW; Founder, The Australian Health Care Reform Alliance

Creating a sustainable healthcare system

• Evidence Based Health Care
• Comparative international health policy
• What are healthcare challenges we face and how can we apply the solutions?

Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Foundation Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation; Director, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of
Medicine, University of New South Wales

Morning tea

How do we reduce the gap between what we already know but don’t do, in order to improve the health of all Australians?

• Creating a sustainable system and supporting the patient adequately
• Spending and examining funding arrangements
• Evolving with changing demographics, the ageing population, increasing demands and evolving diseases
• What are the real limits of publicly funded healthcare?
• What’s the best direction for policy to move?

Professor Brian Oldenburg, Professor of International Public Health, Associate Dean International, Monash University

One health system, two levels of government, three new peak organisations, four dilemmas

• HPA, ACSQHC and the NPA: reasonable expectations of impact by 2013 and 2018
• Having a private hospital system: estimates of efficiency and social welfare impacts
• The healthcare system outside public hospitals: are other reforms overdue?
• The funding gaps with GFC2 looming and the likelihood of political statesmanship
• The medical profession and health insurers as pivotal reform agents in payment reform
• Personal responsibility and healthcare costs: time to revisit Medicare and PHI design assumptions?

Dr. Paul Gross, Director, Institute of Health Economics and Technology Assessment in Australia

The Federal and State funding relationship

• A review of the National Health Funding Pool, the Administrator of the National Health Funding Pool and the National Health Funding Body
• What are the challenges surrounding funding?
• A look at differing funding mechanisms: what’s the most effective strategy to meet Australia’s changing needs?

Dan Hurren, Senior Healthcare Analyst, UBS Australia

Lunch

Enabling Integrated Care: Governance Models and the Role of Modern IT

Dr. Mehdi Khaled, Vice President, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Oracle Asia Pacific and Japan

Improving the delivery of cancer services

• Managing the growing cancer care needs
• Developing research capabilities and preventative cancer medication
• Expanding cancer centres to meet Australia future requirements
• The role of technology and e-health in service provision

Professor Ian Olver, CEO, Cancer Council Australia

Afternoon tea

Oral healthcare: effective dentistry delivery

• Dental policy: universal dental health insurance?
• Supporting dental demands under the public system
• A look at the funding needed to deliver results
• Preventative initiatives
• Moving dental health forward through the National

Dr. Martin Dooland, Executive Director, Statewide Services, Adelaide Health Service

Pathology: increasing quality and efficacy of service provision

• Managing demand and reducing costs
• Allowing competition in a profitable market
• The workforce predicament within the pathology labour market
• Pathology and the PCEHR

Professor Katherine McGrath, CEO, Australian Association of Pathology Practices

Mental health: becoming more proactive and less reactive

• Accountability and avoiding crisis-driven mental healthcare
• Connecting programs (Better Access, Access to Allied Psychological Services) and creating integrated services - What do we need to make these services work effectively?
• Primary healthcare
• Mental health in youth
• Increasing economic and social participation for those with mental illness
• Mental health services in remote Australia
• Services and skills shortages

Professor Gavin Andrews AO, Director, University of New South Wales School of Psychiatry, St. Vincent’s Hospital

Skilling the medical profession

• Ensuing a sufficient and sustainable labour market
• Where are the shortfalls?
• Solutions to workforce shortages and better staff retention

Associate Professor Paul Middleton, Director, Australian Institute for Clinical Education

Closing remarks

Networking drinks

End of day one

Registration and morning coffee

Introduction from the Chair

Public hospital operations: supporting a growing Australian population

• The outlook for the public hospital system
• Managing the needs of an increasing number of Australians
• Service delivery and keeping up with delivery plans
• The relationship between funding and hospital efficacy
• Measuring healthcare outcomes
• A look at the impact of the Local Hospital Networks

Professor David Ben-Tovim, Director, Clinical Epidemiology & Redesigning Care Units, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network

The necessity of private hospitals within the Australian healthcare system

• Hospital best-practice and management
• Creating financially accountable hospitals
• How hospital operations are impacted by e-health, reforms, funding changes
• Accountability: what are the consequences for good and bad performance?

Dr. Michael Walsh, Chief Executive Officer, Cabrini Health

Morning tea

An analysis of the hospital networks: where can we improve?

• Finding the balance between local community and clinician input
• The importance of integrated service planning
• Coordinating with regional health organisations and increasing efficiency
• A look at the States’ approaches to hospital network management
• The Local Hospital Network System

Professor Phillip Harris AM, Chair of the Board, The South Western Sydney Local Health District; Clinical Professor, Central Clinical School - Medicine, University of
Sydney; Clinical Director, Cardiovascular Service, Sydney Local Health District

Healthcare delivery in regional and rural Australia

• Legislation to improve the delivery of remote healthcare
• Building the regional and rural medical workforce
• The use of e-health and telemedicine in rural care

Dr. Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Chair, RACGP National Rural Faculty; Deputy Chair, The National Rural Health Alliance

Health reform - after the agreement comes the real work

• Moving from health reform agreements to implementing health system change
• Challenges, consequences and future directions in Tasmania
• Lessons learnt from implementation and directions for the future

David Nicholson, Director, Policy and Intergovernmental Relations, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania

Lunch

Primary healthcare’s growing responsibilities

• Connecting communities and care
• Managing avoidable hospital admissions through primary healthcare.
• Are the aspirations likely to be realised?
• Developing the links between hospital networks, GP initiatives and the range of other community sector providers working in the primary health space.

Lyn Morgain, CEO, Western Region Health Centre

Adequately supporting the health consumer

• Maintaining affordable treatment
• The impact of the health reforms on the consumer
• PCEHR and the patient
• A look at complementary medicine

Carol Bennett, Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Health Forum

Afternoon tea

Pathology: increasing quality and efficacy of service provision

• Managing demand and reducing costs
• Allowing competition in a profitable market
• The workforce predicament within the pathology labour market
• Pathology and the PCEHR

Professor Katherine McGrath, CEO, Australian Association of Pathology Practices

Improving the delivery of cancer services

• Managing the growing cancer care needs
• Developing research capabilities and preventative cancer medication
• Expanding cancer centres to meet Australia future requirements
• The role of technology and e-health in service provision

Professor Ian Olver, CEO, Cancer Council Australia

The future of private health insurance: can we sustain high insurance participation and growth?

• A sustainable PHI scheme
• The role of PHI in the Medicare system
• Consulting all stakeholders to create a coherent plan
• The effects of changes to the rebate

Professor Andrew Podger AO, Professor of Public Policy, ANU

Closing remarks from the Chair

End of day two

Registration and morning coffee

Introduction from the Chair

Dr. Annie Lau, Research Fellow, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation

Advancing e-health throughout Australia

• Creating a smooth transition into e-health: technology development and standardizing e-health
• The Concept of Operations
• PCEHR - Personally Controlled Electronic Record
• Program: what can we expect in the roll-out?
• What are the concerns?
• Successfully bringing onboard the Australian public

Associate Professor Valerie Gay, School of Computing and Communications, Mhealth Lab Director, Centre for Innovation in IT Services Applications, UTS

Deploying e-health in the US

• The efficient adoption of new technologies and ensuring widespread usage
• Achieving streamlined standards nationally, and even globally
• Maintaining cost-efficiency

Ken Rubin, Chief Architect, Federal Healthcare Portfolio, HP Enterprise Services, USA

Morning tea

Case study: Rolling out e-health in the Hunter Urban Medicare Local

• The challenges and solutions of a lead site for the implementation of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record
• Engaging the aged care sector in the PCEHR lead implementation
• Applying e-health to achieve Medicare Local objectives

Dr. Mark Foster, CEO, Hunter Urban Medicare Local

E-health and the impact on primary health

• Challenges and solutions to supporting the GP
• The future of public healthcare
• Using technology to create a more efficient system

Professor Siaw-Teng Liaw, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales

Personalised medicine

• Where is the future taking us?
• The impact of personalised medicine on disease diagnosis and prevention
• Clinical usage of personalised medicine

Professor Andrew Biankin, Head, Pancreatic Cancer Research, Cancer Program, Garvan Institute of Medical Research; Professor, Conjoint Appointee UNSW

Lunch

Portable Health File project at St. George Hospital

Professor Marissa Lassere, Professor of Medicine, Senior Staff Specialist, St. George Hospital

Telehealth: modernising the infrastructure of Australia’s health system

• The check list for GPs
• Ensuring safety and quality
• Rebates for doctors using telehealth
• Covering the initial costs to doctors
• Funding for remote Medicare rebates-using telemedicine for specialist consultations

Mark Donato, Director, Commercial Partnerships, RACGP and RACGP Oxygen

Remote healthcare: benefiting most from e-health

• How rural and remote GPs can receive the resources and support to implement e-health
• Overcoming the poorer infrastructure and access to Broadband in rural areas
• Addressing the different e-health requirements for resources, infrastructure and training in remote
• locations
• E-healthcare and the indigenous communities

Shane Hatton, NSW Rural Doctor’s Network; Development Manager, Rural and Remote Medical Services

Afternoon tea

Advanced medical imaging

• Improved diagnosis and treatment
• Supporting personalised medicine
• Tailored treatments and prevention strategies

Professor David Reutens, Director, Centre for Advanced Imaging, UQ

Liability and E-health

• The biggest concerns with the introduction of e-health into the health and hospital networks – and the solutions
• How can we ensure that consumer privacy is controlled?
• The responsible implementation of the PECHR

Geoff Bloom, Partner, HWL Ebsworth

Closing remarks from the Chairman

Close of Day Three and the 13th Annual Health Congress