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In this week's article: Laurie Hawkins, Chief Executive Officer of AITIA Global , champions Australia’s healthcare sustainability in a digital age. Laurie's’ article delves into the nation’s journey towards sustainable healthcare, emphasising the critical role of Digital Transformation in shaping a healthier future.
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Sustainable healthcare solutions: Australia’s digital frontier?
Ellen Flannery ?|?17 May, 2024
The health sector is grappling with an urgent and unprecedented crisis, marked by the onslaught of chronic diseases, an ageing population, financial costs and healthcare professional shortages, all of which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite ongoing efforts, the mounting demands and sustainability risks continue to pose a significant challenge, and the need for effective change is pressing.?
The prevalence of chronic conditions and their root causes presents a colossal challenge to healthcare systems worldwide. Digital Transformation, with its potential to streamline processes, improve data management and enhance patient care, could be a game-changer in this scenario.?
The Australian government’s Department of Health and Aged Care states: ‘Chronic conditions are the leading cause of illness, disability and death in Australia.’ This will threaten to overwhelm Australia’s health budget, health service capacity and health workforce.?
The significance of disease prevention is undervalued, and we don’t do enough, especially with the volume of data available.?
Disease prevention is not just a strategy but a key that unlocks long-term health and economic benefits. It significantly enhances health outcomes and secures the well-being of future generations, making it a crucial component of any sustainable healthcare system.?
Prevention is critical to improving the health of all citizens, reducing health-related expenditures and ensuring a sustainable health system.?
To do this, we need multisector partnerships and foundational digital health infrastructure in the cloud, which I have been responsible for in Australia. We are now undertaking to reduce health disparities by providing digital health components identifying your ‘physical assets’ and the ‘services’ they offer can help achieve this goal. Thus, establishing a ‘single source of truth’ is necessary to ‘connect all the dots’.?
For a successful digital health transformation, it is imperative to recognise that the sustainability of the health sector hinges on establishing robust multisector partnerships. While some health determinants fall within the sector’s purview, others extend beyond its boundaries. Therefore, fostering strong, cooperative and productive partnerships between all stakeholders is not just beneficial but crucial to our collective goal of preventing and managing chronic conditions.?
This means creating partnerships for the whole of health and community well-being.?
To ensure sustainable and healthy communities, all stakeholders should be willing to partner and collaborate across social, economic and environmental determinants of health. This includes building and supporting effective partnerships across relevant sectors such as Aged Care, Childhood Development, Climate-Related Illness, Disability, Drug and Alcohol, Mental Health, Immigrants, etc.?
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To achieve this goal, a foundational ‘Digital Health Infrastructure’ strategy is required. This infrastructure will facilitate necessary partnerships, work towards disease prevention and broader sustainability goals, and deliver purpose and value to all partners and their communities.
Cancer the Elephant in the Room - One of a number of my Posts - Trying to get Collaboration (as another friend has stage 4, brain cancer)
(Instead of the WIIFM - What's In It For Me)
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM - CANCER
Young or old, rich or poor, wherever you leave in the World, it does not discriminate
Yet another human being in my life lost to Cancer, a good friend informed me whilst in transit from Australia to be with his sister (who died at a very young age)
Earlier this year a good friend at my local coffee haunt died of Cancer, another is battling it and yet another very good friend from the USA died a year ago
One Christmas I tried to "Join the Dots" by LinkedIn msg to 130 organisations associated with Cancer in one shape or form across the World seeking "Expressions of Interest" about creating an International Data Analytics Platform where everyone can use common datasets, such as census, social determinants of health
They can use their own private patient data as the data NEVER LEAVES YOUR PC, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOAD INTO THE CLOUD, so is fully Privacy Compliant - see the video, thus gain valuable data insights