Building a Precision Medicine Future for South Australia

We’ve intro­duced a Pre­ci­sion Med­i­cine Blue­print to sup­port the advance­ment of health­care in South Aus­tralia. This strate­gic doc­u­ment aims to fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tion and dri­ve the devel­op­ment of a health­care ecosys­tem that deliv­ers per­son­alised, effec­tive, and effi­cient care to all South Australians.

Pre­ci­sion med­i­cine is an inno­v­a­tive approach to health that incor­po­rates an individual’s genet­ic make-up, envi­ron­men­tal, and lifestyle fac­tors. Pre­ci­sion med­i­cine offers the poten­tial to improve patient out­comes, enhance expe­ri­ences, reduce vari­a­tions in care, and opti­mise resource utilisation. 

We are com­mit­ted to cre­at­ing a uni­fied approach to pre­ci­sion med­i­cine across the state. Our vision is to cre­ate a health­care ecosys­tem that lever­ages pre­ci­sion med­i­cine to deliv­er per­son­alised, effec­tive, and effi­cient care to all. 

The blue­print iden­ti­fies five key pri­or­i­ty areas: 

• Sup­port­ing infra­struc­ture and ser­vice models 
• Work­force, edu­ca­tion and training 
• Inte­grat­ed big data and analytics 
• Research, inno­va­tion, and translation 
• Com­mu­ni­ty edu­ca­tion and health literacy 

At the CEIH, we see our role as facil­i­tat­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion among diverse stake­hold­ers, fos­ter­ing knowl­edge shar­ing and strat­e­gy devel­op­ment to advance pre­ci­sion med­i­cine statewide. The Com­mis­sion is active­ly engaged in sev­er­al ini­tia­tives, includ­ing enhanc­ing data inte­gra­tion, stream­lin­ing genom­ic test­ing process­es, sup­port­ing work­force edu­ca­tion, and devel­op­ing statewide clin­i­cal pathways. 

Through our Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­works(SCN) like the Can­cer SCN and the Clin­i­cal Genomics SCN, we are dri­ving the imple­men­ta­tion of pre­ci­sion med­i­cine across South Aus­tralia. The blue­print also empha­sizes the impor­tance of con­sumer engage­ment to ensure pub­lic involve­ment in pre­ci­sion med­i­cine applications. 

To learn more about this and get involved, see Pre­ci­sion Med­i­cine.