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, in partnership with the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and Nous Group.
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.
Webinar: Core clinician use cases for a national HIE and related national interoperability initiatives
A one hour expert webinar looking at how our proposed national Health Information Exchange and key related national interoperability initiatives, such as upgrading the My Health Record and the development and mandating of standards of data sharing for our major software platforms, might directly benefit the day to day operational efficiency of clinicians working at the coal face in our hospitals, general practice and the community.
Date: Tuesday May 20th
Time: 1pm – 2pm AEST
Speakers:
- Bettina McMahon, CEO, Healthdirect
- Dr Suzanne Miller, Director of Strategy, Quality, and Technology, Victorian VED
- Dr Peter Sprivulis, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Department of Health WA
- Andrew Aho, Regional Director of Data Platforms, InterSystems
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of Health Services Daily and The Medical Republic.
Topics:
- What are the key clinical use cases being used in modelling our major national interoperability initiatives and how do they relate to current state operations in our hospitals, general practice and community care.
- What are the pain points for transition for the key use cases, what comes first, and why?
- How do these use cases relate to patient outcomes and how are the architects of our interoperability future taking into account the views of patients in the new evolving paradigm
- Specific use cases for a national HIE, an enhanced My Health Record, mandated vendor data sharing standards and more.
- What looks easy, what looks hard? Where is our likely biggest ROI in the range of initiatives on the table?
- Is significantly enhanced hospital to GP interoperability the most important short term use case? If not, what is and why?
- Where is aged and community care in the picture?
- Timelines and means of contributing to the process
Sponsored by InterSystems.
Achieving Patient Centred Care for ageing Australians – from pipe dream to reality?
Health Services Daily, in partnership with Visionflex, are bringing together a team of thought leaders for two free webinars in the lead up to the Canberra Towards One Health System Summitlooking at how we might optimise already deployed funding and new technology to actually move the dial on delivering some connectedness to our aged care sector.
Join Two Important Conversations
Webinar One: Lessons from a Landmark Virtual Care Rollout – Are We Shifting the Dial?
The opportunities and challenges of deploying virtual care technology in aged care and whether it has truly moved us closer to person-centred care.
Date: Tuesday May 27th
Time: 11am AEST
Speakers:
- Julie Sturgess, Chief Executive Officer, Country to Coast PHN
- Bettina McMahon, Chief Executive Officer, Healthdirect
- Dr Paresh Dawda, Director and Principal, Prestantia Health and Next Practice Canberra
- Joshua Mundey, Chief Executive Officer, Visionflex
Moderated by Wendy John, Journalist.
Topics Include:
- Key insights from the Aged Care Digital and Data Strategy rollout.
- How PHNs approached telehealth commissioning for RACFs.
- Practical lessons from the ground: What worked? What didn’t?
- The gap between technology deployment and service delivery transformation.
- What providers, funders, and policymakers can learn for future phases.
Webinar Two: Connected Care – Breaking Down the Silos
How do we integrate aged care into the broader health system to deliver true, connected, person-centred care?
Date: Friday June 13th
Time: 11am AEST
Speakers:
- Bettina McMahon, Chief Executive Officer, Healthdirect
- Joshua Mundey, Chief Executive Officer, Visionflex
- Anja Nikolic, Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH)
- Sarah Barter, Board Director, Sydney North Health Network
- Dr Alam Yousuff, Board Director, Murrumbidgee PHN
Moderated by Jeremy Knibbs, Publisher of Health Services Daily and The Medical Republic.
Topics Include:
- Why siloed care models are failing older Australians.
- Funding models: Are they enabling or preventing integrated, team-based care?
- How technology and data sharing must evolve beyond RACFs into Home Care, GP practices, Hospitals, Urgent Care Centres, and Ambulance Services.
- Policy levers required to bridge healthcare and aged care.
- Real-world strategies to operationalise connection across health and social care sectors.
- What success could — and should — look like for our future health system.
New Models of Care Reshaping the Future of Hospitals Summit
Thursday October 16th 2025, Aerial Function Centre UTS, Sydney
Brought to you by Health Services Daily, Wild Health and The Medical Republic.
A one-day summit at the UTS Aerial Centre in Sydney on October 16 bringing together key thought leaders from state and federal governments and agencies, hospitals, the aged and primary sectors and the virtual care technology vendor community to deep dive on the key emerging care models and new policy helping to facilitate the extension and integration of hospital care delivery beyond bricks and mortar institutions and into the home, workplaces, aged care, community health facilities, primary care settings and more.
This transition is the key to creating a more sustainable and equitable public and private health system into the future and to the economics of the state hospital system.
The event will aim look at practical and achievable initiatives and technology which can help hospital management migrate more efficiently to virtual care solutions in the near term, including the presentation of current successful case studies from across the country.