Dr Rob Hosking – Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Practice Technology and Management
Welcome to our fifth eHealth Forum for the RACGP. It sort of says something that we can get so many leaders in the digital health area together in one spot.
Mr Tim Kelsey – CEO, Australian Digital Health Agency
One of the deficiencies of digital Health internationally has been, frankly, the failure of governments to collect and harvest insight and evidence in a way that's credible.
Dr Rachel Canaway – Collaboration & Network Manager, Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
When people are not informed about what is happening with data, they're often quite wary of it and not accepting of the sharing data.
Dr Nathan Pinskier – Primary Care Data Quality Foundations Programme, CSIRO
So we know what happens when you're going to practices, we look at records and sometimes we get high-quality records and sometimes we get records we don't understand. It's highly variable. The RACGP has a really critical role in this space.
Associate Professor Mark Morgan – Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Quality Care
Imagine a system where GP data supported really good medication governance. Well, the system can look back through and see when the last blood test was done, iy can prompt, at the point of prescribing, that pathology testing request.
Ms Kate Ebrill – Product and Programme Manager, Clinical terminology and FHIR Products, CSIRO
And that new functionality requires data quality to be there but there's actually a win for the clinician in that case.
Dr Jo-Anne Manaksi-Nankervis – Academic GP, Department of General Practcie, The University of Melbourne
I think that there's lots of work to go on to optimize the way that we look at consent - both the general practices and the patients that are attending.
Mr Tony Kitzelmann – Chief Information Security Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency
First of all, thank you for the opportunity to come along and talk about cybersecurity. So this is my favourite saying “cybersecurity is the ultimate team sport. I'm only successful by the people that I surround myself with and those that can actually help me on the journey to create a cyber-ecosystem that is resilient”
Mr David Rowlands – Chief Health Informatician, Health Informatics Society of Australia
The issue really is that with digital disruption, it's called disruption for a reason. Existential change happens.
Dr Jo-Anne Manaksi-Nankervis – Academic GP, Department of General Practcie, The University of Melbourne
You know, our take is general practice has to be involved in these projects.
Ms Barbara Whitlock – Director, Federal Department of Health
It's really shown that this way of having a community-driven co-designed process has the potential to lead to much better outcomes.
Dr Steven Kaye – Deputy Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Practice Technology and Management
The software that we've got is sensational, it's increasingly sophisticated and able to do many things including extracting and analysing the data that we're producing.
Dr Jo-Anne Manaksi-Nankervis – Academic GP, Department of General Practcie, The University of Melbourne
Our department of general practice has academic GPS and others that really are doing this work not just to write papers, but it is really about the betterment of general practice and how we can optimize patient care.
Dr Steven Kaye – Deputy Chair, RACGP Expert Committee – Practice Technology and Management
And the future – what are we going to do? Education is the key.