Improvement and Innovation Showcase Series 19: Improving Care Through Quality Insights

Our Improve­ment and Inno­va­tion Show­case brings togeth­er teams from across the health sys­tem to con­nect, share and explore their expe­ri­ences of work­ing towards bet­ter health­care for all South Australians.

Clin­i­cal reg­istries play an impor­tant role in improv­ing health­care by col­lect­ing and analysing patient out­comes. They help clin­i­cians and ser­vices under­stand where care varies, com­pare per­for­mance and use these insights to improve care over time.

That’s why clin­i­cal reg­istries are a key focus with­in the CEIH’s Pri­or­i­ty Focus Area on data-dri­ven clin­i­cal deci­sion mak­ing. This reflects our com­mit­ment to improv­ing how clin­i­cal reg­istries are devel­oped, con­nect­ed and used across South Aus­tralia.

Across the series, speak­ers from South Aus­tralia and beyond will share prac­ti­cal clin­i­cal, data and gov­er­nance insights, show­ing how well-designed reg­istries are being used in real set­tings to sup­port evi­dence-based deci­sion mak­ing and con­tin­u­ous qual­i­ty improve­ment.

The show­case is a free, tick­et­ed online webi­nar series held week­ly in June and July. The first episode will be held on Thurs­day 18 June 2026.

Please note: This event will be record­ed and pub­lished, how­ev­er we will ensure none of the attendee details will be revealed.

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Get­ting Clin­i­cal Reg­istry Gov­er­nance Right: Trust, Access and Use (Episode 59)

Date: 18 June 2026
Time: 1.00 pm — 2.00 pm (ACST)

Strong gov­er­nance is what turns reg­istry data into safe, usable insight.

This episode explores clin­i­cal reg­istry gov­er­nance with­in nation­al frame­works, includ­ing a clear def­i­n­i­tion of clin­i­cal reg­istries and the role they play in deliv­er­ing val­ue-based care and sys­tem-wide improve­ment.

Tama­ra Hoop­er show­cas­es the work of the South Aus­tralian Health and Med­ical Research Insti­tute (SAHM­RI) Reg­istry Cen­tre, out­lin­ing com­mon gov­er­nance chal­lenges and show­ing how well-designed gov­er­nance can sup­port high-qual­i­ty research, inform pol­i­cy and dri­ve con­tin­u­ous improve­ment in clin­i­cal care.

The episode also high­lights how the South­ern Ade­laide Local Health Net­work (SAL­HN) is mov­ing from frag­ment­ed reg­istry prac­tices to a more con­sis­tent gov­er­nance mod­el.

Pro­fes­sor Andrew Bersten and Karen Sax­ty explore chal­lenges and lessons learned, includ­ing man­ag­ing new and exist­ing reg­istries, sys­tem and plat­form vari­a­tion, and con­sent and eth­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions. This mod­el shift could sup­port sys­tem-wide improve­ment and deliv­er safer, more reli­able care across South Aus­tralia.

Speak­ers:

• Tama­ra Hoop­er, Strate­gic Direc­tor, SAHM­RI Reg­istry Centre
• Pro­fes­sor Andrew Bersten, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Research, SALHN
• Karen Sax­ty, Direc­tor Research Oper­a­tions, SALHN

Reg­is­ter for the event.

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Spot the Gap, Shift the Care: Clin­i­cal Reg­istries in Action (Episode 60)

Date: 25 June 2026
Time: 1.00 pm — 2.00 pm (ACST)

The way we design and use data can shape equi­ty in care.

This episode exam­ines how data ecosys­tems can be designed in ways that unin­ten­tion­al­ly rein­force inequities, includ­ing how Indige­nous data is rep­re­sent­ed.
Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Court­ney Ryder high­lights why improv­ing health equi­ty requires a shift towards Indige­nous data gov­er­nance, sov­er­eign­ty and lead­er­ship in how health data are defined, col­lect­ed and used.

Through inves­ti­gat­ing exam­ples from the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry, the episode also show­cas­es how Ter­ri­to­ry Kid­ney Care and the NT Kid­ney Dash­board are sup­port­ing ear­li­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and man­age­ment of chron­ic con­di­tions.

Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Asan­ga Abe­yaratne demon­strates how inte­grat­ed, pop­u­la­tion-lev­el data can be used to guide care, improve patient out­comes and reduce reliance on spe­cial­ist hos­pi­tal care and inten­sive treat­ments.

Speak­ers:

• Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Court­ney Ryder, Co-Direc­tor, Health Equi­ty Impact Pro­gram, Flinders Health and Med­ical Research Insti­tute, Flinders University
• Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Asan­ga Abe­yaratne, Con­sul­tant Nephrol­o­gist, Roy­al Dar­win Hospital

Reg­is­ter for the event.

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Beyond the Dash­board: How Reg­istries Improve Sys­tems and Out­comes (Episode 61)

Date: 2 July 2026
Time: 1.00 pm — 2.00 pm (ACST)

Clin­i­cal reg­istries can do more than report results — they can help health sys­tems learn, adapt and improve care.

This episode explores how inte­grat­ed data from nation­al plat­forms such as the Reg­istry of Senior Aus­tralians (ROSA) data plat­form is being used to analyse the safe­ty and qual­i­ty of care for old­er Australians.

Pro­fes­sor Maria Ina­cio high­lights how this approach can help iden­ti­fy gaps in care, inform pol­i­cy and sup­port improve­ments across aged care settings.

This episode also exam­ines how clin­i­cal qual­i­ty reg­istries, such as the Aus­tralian and New Zealand Inten­sive Care Soci­ety Cen­tre for Out­come and Resource Eval­u­a­tion reg­istry, are being used beyond report­ing out­comes in crit­i­cal care settings.

Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Paul Sec­ombe demon­strates how reg­istry data can not only sup­port bench­mark­ing iden­ti­fy vari­a­tion in care, but can also inform learn­ing, improve­ment and deci­sion mak­ing across the health system.

Speak­ers:

• Pro­fes­sor Maria Ina­cio, Direc­tor, Reg­istry of Senior Aus­tralians Research Cen­tre, SAHMRI
• Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Paul Sec­ombe, Senior Con­sul­tant, Inten­sive Care Unit, CALHN

Reg­is­ter for the event.

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Why Clin­i­cal Reg­istries, Why Now? (Episode 62)

Date: 9 July 2026
Time: 1.00 pm — 2.00 pm (ACST)

Clin­i­cal reg­istries are cen­tral to the CEIH’s Pri­or­i­ty Focus Area on data dri­ven clin­i­cal deci­sion making.

This ses­sion intro­duces the Clin­i­cal Reg­istries Project and its role in strength­en­ing how data is used to sup­port bet­ter care across South Aus­tralia. It out­lines the CEIH’s strate­gic intent to enhance coor­di­na­tion, improve data qual­i­ty and max­imise the val­ue of new and exist­ing registries.

Pro­fes­sor Stephen McDon­ald, Clin­i­cal Lead of the Clin­i­cal Reg­istries Project, dis­cuss­es the role that reg­istries play in mon­i­tor­ing out­comes, iden­ti­fy­ing vari­a­tion and dri­ving con­tin­u­ous improve­ment in care. He also out­lines cur­rent work to strength­en reg­istry capa­bil­i­ty across SA Health and embed reg­istries more effec­tive­ly into rou­tine clin­i­cal practice.

Speak­er:

• Pro­fes­sor Stephen McDon­ald, Clin­i­cal Lead, Clin­i­cal Reg­istries Project, CEIH

Reg­is­ter for the event.

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Want to learn more?

Watch past Improve­ment and Inno­va­tion Show­cas­es here.