Improvement and Innovation Showcase - Series 15 - Adopting Digital and Data-based Innovations in Healthcare

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. 

In the CEIH, a strate­gic data dri­ven approach is utilised to facil­i­tate dis­cus­sions, under­stand impact, deliv­er insight and, gen­er­ate action. The Showcase’s 15^th Series brings togeth­er experts who work on Dig­i­tal and Data-based Inno­va­tions across the health system. 

In this series of four diverse pre­sen­ta­tions there is some­thing for every­one. Hear com­pelling dis­cus­sions from health­care experts from South Australia’s lead­ing organ­i­sa­tions as they share their insights either on deliv­er­ing inno­va­tions to the mar­ket or those who are enablers of inno­va­tion adoption. 

AutoMedic — improv­ing med­i­cines safe­ty with col­lab­o­ra­tive dig­i­tal process improvement

Michael Bakker (B Pharm FANZ­CAP (Infor­mat­ics), Chief Phar­ma­cy Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer, SA Phar­ma­cy, Statewide Clin­i­cal Sup­port Ser­vices, Depart­ment for Health and Wellbeing)

Med­i­cines are among the most fre­quent­ly used health­care inter­ven­tions, yet med­ica­tion-relat­ed harm remains a lead­ing cause of pre­ventable hos­pi­tal admis­sions. Clin­i­cians, par­tic­u­lar­ly phar­ma­cists, often work with­in frag­ment­ed data envi­ron­ments where crit­i­cal infor­ma­tion about pre­scribed, dis­pensed, and admin­is­tered med­i­cines is scat­tered across sys­tems. This not only increas­es work­load and stress but also cre­ates unac­cept­able risks for patients, espe­cial­ly those with mul­ti­ple comor­bidi­ties or vul­ner­a­ble health con­di­tions. The AutoMedic project will cre­ate a dig­i­tal­ly enabled work­flow that mean­ing­ful­ly trans­forms the process and safe­ty of sup­port­ing med­i­cines man­age­ment across tran­si­tions of care. 

Join us for an insight­ful pre­sen­ta­tion on how the AutoMedic project is rev­o­lu­tion­is­ing med­ica­tion safe­ty through col­lab­o­ra­tive dig­i­tal process improve­ment and dis­cov­er how we can reduce pre­ventable harm and enhance patient care. 

Dig­i­tal Health­care Inter­op­er­abil­i­ty – For­rest Gump or Peter Parker?

Dr Marc Belej (MBBS, FAIDH, GAICD, Finance & Per­for­mance Board Com­mit­tee Mem­ber – SAL­HN, Con­sul­tant – Cha­monix IT Solu­tions & Inter­op­er­abil­i­ty Archi­tect – Dig­i­tal Health SA)

“Health­care data is like a box of choco­lates…..”

Health­care has strug­gled to lever­age the remark­able tech­nol­o­gy leaps of the last 25 years that have trans­formed oth­er indus­tries. Inter­net, mobile devices, cloud, voice & ges­ture con­trol, wear­able sen­sors and automa­tion are just a few that haven’t real­ly made their way to the every­day in health­care. Yet. 

Now AI is on the scene and we want that yes­ter­day too. Not for technology’s sake, but because these things can pro­found­ly improve Healthcare. 

And Health­care matters. 

“With great data comes great inter­op­er­abil­i­ty (or is that the oth­er way round?)”

How do we get nice things? By estab­lish­ing stan­dard pat­terns and prac­tices that make our data exchange cheap, reli­able, fast and effi­cient. Find out how SA Health must (and will) be an indus­try leader in imple­ment­ing the Nation­al Health­care Inter­op­er­abil­i­ty Plan, and what that means for Health­care transformation. 

Don’t miss this excit­ing pre­sen­ta­tion where Marc explores the future of dig­i­tal health­care inter­op­er­abil­i­ty and how SA Health is lead­ing the charge in trans­form­ing health­care with smarter, faster, and more reli­able data exchange. 

Enabling inno­va­tion in health through exec­u­tive lead­er­ship of data

Dr Joshua Ross (Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Data, Ana­lyt­ics, and Insights, Depart­ment for Health and Well­be­ing; Prin­ci­pal Research Fel­low, SAHMRI)

Data should under­pin all deci­sion mak­ing. To enable this, we need to be able to get the ​‘right data, to the right peo­ple, at the right time’. This is what good Data Gov­er­nance achieves. These data are also increas­ing­ly desired to be used in AI, which comes with some addi­tion­al con­sid­er­a­tions for gov­er­nance and assur­ance. SA Health have been work­ing towards cre­at­ing the gov­er­nance and assur­ance envi­ron­ment that enables inno­va­tion and data-dri­ven deci­sion mak­ing while ensur­ing meet­ing leg­isla­tive require­ments and safe­ty. We will hear about these devel­op­ments and the strat­e­gy that sits beside it. 

Inno­va­tion = Cre­ative Prob­lem-Solv­ing in Action

Marie Less­ing (Direc­tor of Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion, Rur­al Sup­port Ser­vice, Depart­ment for Health and Well­be­ing)

How a coun­try town rewired what it already had to keep peo­ple home and healthy.

What if you could cut read­mis­sions with­out buy­ing a sin­gle new platform? 

In South Australia’s River­land, Ren­mark Med­ical Clin­ic joined forces with the local hos­pi­tal net­work, Rur­al Sup­port Ser­vice and CEIH to find out. Togeth­er they took every­day assets — remote-mon­i­tor­ing kits already sit­ting on store­room shelves, an exist­ing health coach­ing ser­vice, an under-used GP refer­ral por­tal, a sim­ple risk algo­rithm, and a fort­night­ly team meet­ing ros­ter — and stitched them into one proac­tive ​“Region­al Care Con­nect” workflow. 

Join us to dis­cov­er the prac­ti­cal, repeat­able steps — deep need-find­ing, rapid co-design and relent­less cross-sec­tor col­lab­o­ra­tion — that turned a small rur­al tri­al into a roadmap for statewide transformation.