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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Darling Harbour Theatre

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The varieties of healthcare experience: Pluralism, informatics, and consumer empowerment
A/Prof Brian Chapman Patient Representative and A/Prof of Health & Biomedical Informatics, University of Melbourne 🇦🇺

In a world with more data liquidity do we need poetry or precepts?
Grahame Grieve FAIDH Principal, Health Intersections 🇦🇺

The public health case for AI and open source data for rapid epidemic intelligence
Prof Raina MacIntyre Head Biosecurity Program, University of NSW 🇦🇺

Strengthening Medicare and beyond: Unlocking health information to empower consumers and advance healthcare reform
Amanda Cattermole PSM Chief Executive Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency 🇦🇺
Daniel McCabe First Assistant Secretary Medicare Benefits and Digital Health, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care 🇦🇺



Speaker

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A/Prof Brian Chapman
Medical Informatics & Digital Health
The University of Melbourne

The varieties of healthcare experience: Pluralism, informatics, and consumer empowerment

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

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Biography

Dr Brian Chapman is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. A native of the United States, he has lived in Australia since 2019. By training, Brian is a medical informaticist, by interest an armchair philosopher, by temperament an artist, and by necessity an experienced patient. A survivor of two childhood cancers as well as two adult cancers, Brian’s experiences as a patient have shaped his work as a teacher and a researcher. At the same time, his training as an informaticist has shaped his experiences as a patient. He is passionate about empowering consumers to be informed and knowledgeable pilots of their healthcare.
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Grahame Grieve FAIDH
Principal
Health Intersections

In a world with more data liquidity do we need poetry or precepts?

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

Biography

Grahame Grieve is HL7's Product Director for "FHIR" - the leading healthcare data exchange standard of the future. Grahame has a background in laboratory medicine, software vendor development, clinical research, open source development and has also conceived, developed and sold interoperability and clinical document solutions and products in the Australian market and around the world. Grahame has worked to develop standards and solutions with several US vendor consortiums, and the national programs of Canada, England, Singapore, and Australia. In the last decade, Grahame has focused on nurturing and leading the FHIR community around the world.
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Prof Raina MacIntyre
Professor & Head, Biosecurity Program
UNSW Sydney

The public health case for AI and open source data for rapid epidemic intelligence

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

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Biography

Raina MacIntyre is a physician-epidemiologist, pandemic expert and Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, Australia. She leads EPIWATCH, an AI open source pandemic early warning system. She has been on expert groups for US National Academies of Science and WHO and has >450 peer reviewed publications.
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Amanda Cattermole PSM
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Digital Health Agency

Strengthening Medicare and beyond: Unlocking health information to empower consumers and advance healthcare reform

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

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Biography

Ms Amanda Cattermole PSM is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, a role she commenced in September 2020. The Agency is auspiced by all the governments of Australia to lead digital health strategy for Australians and to drive digital innovation. It also builds national health infrastructure and delivers national digital health products and services to support Australia’s progress towards a safer and more efficient health system.
Prior to this Amanda was the Chief Operating Officer at Services Australia and served as interim Chief Executive Officer during its transition from a department of state to an agency. Amanda held several other senior roles at Services Australia, including an extended period as Deputy Secretary, Health and Aged Care Group, where she was responsible for the delivery of payments and services to Australians under Medicare, the Pharmaceutical Benefits scheme and in the aged care sector.
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Daniel McCabe
First Assistant Secretary
Department of Health and Aged Care

Strengthening Medicare and beyond: Unlocking health information to empower consumers and advance healthcare reform

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

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Biography

Daniel is responsible for providing policy advice on the Medicare Benefits Scheme to deliver access to medical services for all Australians. Daniel is also responsible for providing policy direction on digital health to connect patients and health care providers with their health information across the health system.

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