Health system in the spotlight

Experts from across the country meet at AIHI for Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability workshop

More than 40 of the country’s top health systems and health economics researchers, policy makers and practitioners met today at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University, for the NHMRC Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability (PCHSS) workshop.

The workshop was hosted by PCHSS Coordinator Ms Jo Holt along with AIHI’s Professors Braithwaite, Westbrook and Coiera (pictured).

Focussed on building a more sustainable Australian health system in the face of a rapidly ageing population, stretched budgets, low-value care, waste and workforce pressures, the team were tasked with identifying real and practical interventions as well as setting the research agenda for the next 12 months.

Participants at the workshop included: -

• Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite – Founding Director, AIHI; Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, AIHI; Chief investigator, NHMRC Partnership Centre for Health System Sustainability
• Professor Enrico Coiera – Director, Centre for Health Informatics, AIHI; Director, NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in e-health
• Professor Johanna Westbrook – Director, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, AIHI
• Professor Andrew Georgiou - Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, AIHI
• Ms Jo Holt – Coordinator, NHMRC PCHSS; Institute Coordinator, AIHI
• Professor Robyn Ward – incoming Executive Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney University; currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), The University of Queensland
• Professor Paul Glasziou – Professor, Evidence-Based Medicine, Bond University
• Professor Anthony Scott – lead of the Health Economics Research Program, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne; joint coordinator, University of Melbourne Health Economics Group.
• Ms Annette Schmiede – Executive Leader, Bupa Health Foundation
• Professor Christine Bennett AO – Dean, School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia

Topics under the spotlight included:

• Analytics, technology and shared healthcare
• Reducing waste and low-value care
• Promoting value for the healthcare dollar

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Centres related to this news

Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science

Centre for Health Informatics

Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research