What Australia can learn from the experience of significantly enabling healthcare interoperability via policy in the US.
The Towards One Healthcare System Summit was produced by Health Services Daily, The Medical Republic and Wild Health in June 2025.
The half-day workshop and one-day summit, brought 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.
- How we move providers and software vendors on to 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, Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing;
- Rob Grenfell, Chief Strategy and Regions Officer Grampians Health;
- Stella Ward, Streamliners Global Ambassador;
- Andrew Aho, Regional Director of Data Platforms, InterSystems;
- Dr Michael Bainbridge, Clinical Architect, Leidos.
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, publisher of The Medical Republic and Health Services Daily
