Australian Healthcare Week Presents: Connecting Healthcare 2012

One of the greatest challenges to the prosperity and success of Australia is meeting the coming healthcare demands of the population. Whether it be access to expertise in the bush or responding to endemic health trends – what is clear that healthcare cannot be viewed in silos - a collaborative, connected solution is the only remedy.

Australian Healthcare Week has been specifically designed to bring together the key stakeholders in the provisioning and delivery of healthcare. As technologies in diagnostic imaging and surgery revolutionise the fields, how we plan and develop healthcare facilities must not only keep pace, but foresee the future and this can only be achieved by a consistent dialogue between all parties involved.


Speaker Panelists:

  • stephen Professor Stephen
    Leeder, Director
    Menzies Centre for Health Policy
  • stevenboyegesProfessor Steven
    Boyages, CEO
    CETI
  • desgorman Professor Des Gorman
    Executive Director
    Health Workforce New Zealand

Strategic Solutions for Digital Healthcare

Given the Government drive for eHealth, Connecting Healthcare 2012 forms an integral part of Australian Healthcare Week because of the need for design and planning of eHealth infrastructure.

As we all know the Government has made a pledge to improve Health IT and move towards E-Health. The need for an EMR and PCEHR is driving all healthcare organisations to align themselves with the national strategy and develop strategic plans to migrate to the new eHealth system.

Change management will be critical in allowing organisations to develop this new capability and make full use of it. The topics that will be covered at this year’s summit include:

  • EMR Migration
  • Scanned Medical Records
  • PCEHR Implementations
  • Telehealth
  • Apps in Healthcare
  • Data Integrity and Security
  • Mobile Health
  • Change Management
  • Creating a Digital Hospital
  • Unified Communications
  • And more…

You are not alone. Learning how to effectively develop and implement topics is a concern for all organisations if you are to hit the 1st July 2012 deadline.

What is Driving Digital Healthcare?

The need to move towards digital healthcare can be clearly realised through the below benefits and being able to achieve this must be seen as a common goal for those involved in the healthcare profession.

  • Safety – reduced incidence & severity of injury
  • Effectiveness – avoiding under-use, misuse & over-use
  • Patient-centeredness - supports continuity of care & patient self-management
  • Timelines – reducing queues, overcrowding, harmful delays
  • Efficiency – avoiding waste in equipment, supplies, resources
  • Equity – in location, socioeconomic status, ethnicity & gender

The further benefits that have been suggested by NEHTA and can be achieved are:

  • Better clinical decision support in:
    • Prescribed medications
    • Referrals
    • Clinical ordering (pathology & imaging)
  • Electronic consultation substitution
  • Reduced rate of population chronic disease progression
  • Reduced hospital costs
  • Community pharmacy processes
  • Improved medication adherence

Why attend Connecting Healthcare 2012?

A clear concise organisational, state, and federal plan is critical so that healthcare can transition easily and effectively to be able to transfer and receive data by 1st July 2012. Benchmark and learn from your peers at Connecting Healthcare 2012, and further your knowledge in these core areas:

  • Enabling Real-Time Access to Patient Information
  • Developing a Strategy to Enable the Sharing of Healthcare Information and Connectivity Amongst all Healthcare Users
  • Guaranteeing the Security of Patient Information and Maintaining a High Level of Data Integrity
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