8.00 AM

Registration

9.30 AM

Conference welcome

• Lynn Garlick, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN 

9.35 AM

Welcome to Country

• Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council 

9.45 AM

Opening address

• Nathalie Hansen, CEO, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN 

10.00 AM

Keynote address

• Simon Kuestenmacher, Cofounder and Director, The Demographics Group 

10.30 AM

Plenary session – The forefront of health informatics 

• Bettina McMahon – Chief Executive Officer, Healthdirect Australia 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 session – Data integration and interoperability

• Kate Ebrill, Interoperability Lead, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

2.00 PM

Concurrent sessions

Design of the national primary and acute care data linkage project

Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

Reviewing the use of generative AI and machine learning 

Brisbane North PHN and North Western Melbourne PHN 

Codename Gary – Adelaide PHN’s data processing agent

Adelaide PHN

2.30 PM

Concurrent sessions

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

Gold Coast PHN

How Polylith can streamline code development and reduce duplications

North Western Melbourne PHN

Improving PHN efficiency and compliance with AI-assisted workflows

WentWest

3.00 PM

Concurrent sessions

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

Central and Eastern Sydney PHN 

PMHC data transformations with Azure Synapse

South Western Sydney PHN

A plug and play fully integrated ISO27001 Information Security Management System (ISMS) 

Western Australia Primary Health Alliance 

3.50 PM

Interactive presentation – Telling an engaging story with data

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

4.20 PM

Closing remarks

Peter Boffey, North Brisbane PHN 

9.00 AM

Poster session

9.30 AM

Introduction to the day

Lynn Garlick, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN 

9.40 AM

Plenary session – International perspectives in the data, digital and insights space

Facilitated by Rebbeck Consultancy  

• Dr Priya Kumar, GP, Kumar Medical Centre, United Kingdom 

• Merilin Varsamaa, World Health Organisation Technical Advisory Expert on Public Health Innovation, Estonia 

11.10 AM

Concurrent sessions

Measuring progress and/or outcomes of all PHN activities

COORDINARE

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

Murray PHN

Architecting for robust Power BI development

North Western Melbourne PHN

11.40 AM

Concurrent sessions

Gold Coast PHN’s Primary Sense Benefits Realisation Plan and Benefits reporting

Gold Coast PHN

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

Primary Health Tasmania

Secure File Uploader – generic use case

Western Victoria PHN

12.10 PM

Concurrent sessions

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

Western Australia Primary Health Alliance

Qld-Commonwealth Partnership jurisdiction level data collaboration and reform “Enhancing Collaboration and Innovation in Healthcare”

Queensland PHNs

Enhancing immunisation reporting efficiency with automated row-level security reporting

Central and Eastern Sydney PHN

1.30 PM

Concurrent sessions

Introduction to Azure CLI (workshop)

South Western Sydney PHN

eReferral implementation – enhancing digital health pathways in Gippsland

Gippsland PHN

PHASES demonstration and interactive workshop (workshop)

Country to Coast, Queensland

1.50 PM

Poster session

2.50 PM

Concurrent sessions

PHI data breach workshop

Western Australia Primary Health Alliance 

Microsoft Power Apps (workshop)

Murray PHN

Introduction to VisiData (for WSL/Linux users) (workshop)

South Western Sydney PHN

3.30 PM

Concurrent sessions

PHI data breach workshop (cont’d)

Western Australia Primary Health Alliance 

Create a data wiki with MkDocs (workshop) 

South Western Sydney PHN 

Introduction to QGIS – a spatial visualisation tool (workshop) 

South Western Sydney PHN 

4.10 PM

Closing remarks

• Peter Boffey, Brisbane North PHN 

9.00 AM

Introduction to the day

• Lynn Garlick, Central and Eastern Sydney PHN 

9.10 AM

Plenary session – PHN national data projects 

• Emma McKeown, Executive Director, Insight, Performance and Digital Services, North West Melbourne PHN and National Data Governance Committee member  

10.40 AM

Concurrent sessions

Prevalence and incidence analysis with general practice demand forecasting for South Eastern Melbourne

South Eastern Melbourne PHN

Visualise your journey an interactive approach to GP training

Capital Health Network

Data storytelling and literacy – Building PHN-wide data maturity

Brisbane North PHN

11.10 AM

Concurrent sessions

A machine learning model for evidence–based detection of general practices at risk of closure 

Northern Queensland PHN

Collaborative commissioning monitoring dashboard

First Health Limited

Digital wayfinding/service directories

Healthy North Coast

11.40 AM

Concurrent sessions

Same data, new insights: A data-driven approach to general practice segmentation 

Eastern Melbourne PHN

Head 2 Health – Digitally enabled centralised intake & assessment

Country to Coast, Queensland

Leveraging the flexible PHI infrastructure to manage Power BI report and Azure object access

Brisbane South PHN

12.10 PM

Closing remarks

• Peter Boffey, Brisbane North PHN