8.00 AM

Registration

Level 2, InterContinental Sydney,16 Phillip St, Sydney 

9.30 AM

Conference opening

Dr Lynn Garlick, General Manager, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN 
Acacia Room

9.35 AM

Welcome to Country

Michael West, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council 

9.45 AM

Opening address

Nathalie Hansen, Chief Executive Officer, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN 

10.00 AM

Keynote address

Simon Kuestenmacher, Cofounder and Director, The Demographics Group 

10.30 AM

Plenary 1 – The forefront of health informatics 

Facilitator: Phil Edmondson, CEO, Primary Health Tasmania

Speakers:

• Mitchell Burger, Chief Insights Officer, Healthdirect
• Damian Green, Deputy Director General, Corporate Services, Queensland Health
• Dr Zoran Bolevich, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

12.00 PM

Plenary 2 – Data integration and interoperability

Facilitator: Alyson Ross, Executive Director, Digital Insights and Performance, Gold Coast PHN

Speakers:

• Simon Cleverley, Assistant Secretary, Digital Health Branch – Department for Health Disability and Ageing
• Kate Ebrill, Interoperability Lead, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
• Marvin Malcolm, Lead Architect, Product and Technology, Telstra Health

1.00 PM

Explanation of concurrent sessions

Dr Lynn Garlick, General Manager, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

2.00 PM

Concurrent sessions

Design of the national primary and acute care data linkage project

Jane Miller, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

Acacia room

Reviewing the use of generative AI and machine learning 

Olivia Brunton and Daniel Morris, North Western Melbourne PHN

Premiers room

Codename Gary – Adelaide PHN’s “data-processing-agent”

Nick Rechten, Adelaide PHN

Correa room

2.20 PM

Change sessions

2.30 PM

Concurrent sessions

Applying Johns Hopkins ACG risk stratification system to patient-level data to improve regional population health management

Brandon Ibbotson, Gold Coast PHN

Acacia room

How Polylith can streamline code development and reduce duplications

Brendon Wickham, North Western Melbourne PHN

Premiers room

AI-assisted workflows: improving PHN efficiency and compliance

Mark Monfort, WentWest

Correa room

2.50 PM

Change sessions

3.00 PM

Concurrent sessions

Development of the POLAR hepatitis C report and its use in the beyond the C case study 

Phoebe Chomley, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

Acacia room

PMHC data transformations with Azure Synapse

David Wales, South Western Sydney PHN

Premiers room

ISO27001: A Plug and Play (PnP) fully integrated ISMS solution

Muhsin Bustillo, Western Australia Primary Health Alliance

Correa room

3.50 PM

Telling an engaging story with data

Isabelle Whitington, Senior Social Media Officer, Australian Bureau of Statistics 

4.30 PM

Closing remarks

Peter Boffey, Data Team Lead, Brisbane North PHN

4.40 PM

End of sessions

9.00 AM

Poster session

Acacia Room

9.30 AM

Introduction to the day

Dr Lynn Garlick, General Manager, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

Acacia Room

9.40 AM

Plenary 3 – International perspectives

Facilitator: Jay Rebbeck, Rebbeck Consultancy

Speakers:

• Merilin Varsamaa, Director of HealthTech, Technical Advisory Expert, WHO
• Dr Priya Kumar, GP, Kumar Medical Centre, United Kingdom
• Sam McLean, Senior Manager, Rebbeck, New Zealand

11.10 AM

Concurrent sessions

Improving PHN’s whole-of-organisation performance monitoring

Dr. Abhijeet Ghosh (on behalf of the Planning & Insights Team), COORDINARE

Acacia room

PHN Exchange – GP data report: adapting the PHN Exchange standardised General Practice report across PAT Delta and Primary Sense data extraction data models

Junior Borelli, Murray PHN

Premiers room

Architecting for robust Power BI development

Daniel Morris, North Western Melbourne PHN

Correa room

11.30 AM

Change sessions

11.40 AM

Concurrent sessions

Primary Sense Benefits Realisation Plan

Alyson Ross, Kellie Trigger, Beverly Korn, Harry Howell, Brandon Ibbotson, Jerneja Sveticic, Gold Coast PHN

Acacia room

Uncovering insights in mental health services: A data-driven exploration with heat maps and social network analysis

Dr. Morshad Rahman and Dr. Fateme Zabetiantarghi, Primary Health Tasmania

Premiers room

Secure File Uploader – generic use case

Akshaya Kumar and Jamie Swann, Western Victoria PHN

Correa room

12.00 PM

Change sessions

12.10 PM

Concurrent sessions

Self-serve tool for selecting general practices for primary care programs

Darshi Wanniarachchi and Brooke Williams, Western Australia Primary Health Alliance

Acacia room

Queensland-Commonwealth Partnership jurisdiction level data collaboration and reform

Brian Kurth, Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN

Peter Boffey, Brisbane North PHN

Alyson Ross, Gold Coast PHN

Premiers room

Enhancing immunisation reporting efficiency with automated row-level security 

Mimi Campbell, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

Correa room

1.30 PM

Concurrent sessions

Introduction to Azure CLI workshop

David Wales, South Western Sydney PHN

Premiers room

eReferral implementation – enhancing digital health pathways in Gippsland

Mark Walters, Gippsland PHN

Acacia room

PHASES demonstration and interactive workshop

Tim Garden, Country to Coast QLD

Correa room

1.50 PM

Poster session

2.50 PM

Concurrent sessions

PHI Cyber breach scenario workshop

Zhenya Yang, Doerte Botterill, Ashish Tomar and Nithin Reddy Gundre

Western Australia Primary Health Alliance

Acacia room

Power Apps workshop

Chris Lees, Murray PHN

Premiers room

Introduction to VisiData workshop (for WSL/Linux users)

Alexander Toland, South Western Sydney PHN

Correa room

3.30 PM

Concurrent sessions

PHI data breach workshop (cont’d)

Zhenya Yang, Doerte Botterill, Ashish Tomar and Nithin Reddy Gundre

Western Australia Primary Health Alliance

Acacia room

Create a data wiki with MkDocs workshop

Linh Nguyen, South Western Sydney PHN

Premiers room

Introduction to QGIS workshop

Alexander Toland, South Western Sydney PHN

Correa room

4.10 PM

Closing remarks

Peter Boffey, Brisbane North PHN 

4.30 PM

End of sessions

9.00 AM

Introduction to the day

Dr Lynn Garlick, General Manager, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

9.10 AM

Plenary 4 – PHN national data projects 

Facilitator: Tim Garden, Chief Digital Officer, Country to Coast PHN

Speakers:

• Emma McKeown, Executive Director, Insight, Performance and Digital Services, North Western Melbourne PHN
• Michelle Quinn, Executive Director, Strategic Commissioning & Insights, Western Sydney PHN
• Nikhil Mathew, Chief Analytics Officer, Western Australia Primary Health Alliance

10.40 AM

Concurrent sessions

GP demand forecasting utilising machine learning

Luis Harrington, South Eastern Melbourne PHN

Acacia room

Visualise Your Journey – An Interactive Approach to GP Training Pathway Mapping

Philippa Gately and Kia Wang, Capital Health Network

Premiers room

Data storytelling and literacy – Building PHN-wide data maturity

Olivia Brunton and Peter Boffey, Brisbane North PHN

Correa room

11.00 AM

Change sessions

11.10 AM

Concurrent sessions

General Practice Risk Stratification Model: A systematic, evidence-based machine learning model that predicts a General Practice’s risk of closure

David Skinner, Northern Queensland PHN

Acacia room

Living Well Your Way: A collaborative commissioning initiative for people living with chronic illness – Monitoring Dashboard

Caroline Holtby and Qudratullah Azimy, First Health Limited

Premiers room

Digital wayfinding and service directories

Tom Foster, Healthy North Coast

Correa room

11.30 AM

Change sessions

11.40 AM

Concurrent sessions

Same data, new insights: Data-driven approach to segmenting general practices

Josh Meyers, Eastern Melbourne PHN

Acacia room

Medicare Mental Health service – digitally enabled centralised intake & assessment  

Tim Garden, Country to Coast QLD

Premiers room

Data & Analytics: Leveraging the flexible PHI infrastructure to manage Power BI report and Azure object access

Sree Nayakineni and David Hall, Brisbane South PHN

Correa room

12.10 PM

Closing remarks

Peter Boffey, Data Team Lead, Brisbane North PHN