What’s on the agenda for the 12th Annual Health Congress?
This three day event is a key gathering of decision makers in the health industry including senior government representatives, health service providers, health insurers, industry associations and e-heath innovators. The comprehensive and highly informative program will enable you to spend three days with healthcare leaders to assess strategies for restructuring the health system in the interest of consumers and to discuss the rapidly changing nature of the healthcare environment.

The 12th Annual Health Congress is an ideal opportunity to listen to different points of view and collectively discuss the national approach to health reform. This is a crucial time in healthcare reform so join this year's event and voice your opinions on this very important issue. 

A glance at the provisional agenda.

Day one will assess the Federal Government’s health policy reform agenda and issues surrounding health budgets and expenditure, hospital funding, the Medicare scheme and access to dental health care. Key topics include:

• Towards health policy reform
• Creating a national health system
• Health economics and funding
• Reforming hospitals
• State based perspectives
• Health standards and performance indicators
• The future of Medicare, MBS and PBS
• Implications for private health insurance
• Improving access to dental care

Day two will examine strategies to implement major policy reform and restructure the health caremodel through prevention and health promotion, primary health care, integrated care and specific health concerns, such as mental health and aged care. Topics we are looking to include are:

• Prevention and early intervention
• Redesigning primary health care
• Closing the gap in Indigenous health
• Moving towards integrated care
• Addressing mental health needs
• Improving aged care services
• Developments in medical innovation
• Enhancing remote area health
• Workforce planning tools
• Health skills development and training

Day three will focus on developing and implementing an e-health framework to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health service provision and delivery systems. Topics on the agenda include:

• E- health policy reform
• Developing an e-health governance regime
• Electronic health records and infrastructure requirements
• Issues surrounding privacy, confidentiality and security
• Expanding the national e-health environment
• Setting e-health performance standards
• Integrating e-health systems
• Encouraging innovation in e-health
• Design consideration of health ICT
• E-health management systems
• Using e-health for chronic disease management
• The benefits of telemedicine and telehealth
• Improving clinical operating systems
• Towards the future of e-health

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