Medicare Locals, Innovation and Consumer-Centred Care
Medicare Locals, Innovation and Consumer-Centred Care
Making Local Innovation Happen in Aged Care, Chronic Illness and Mental Health
National Conference
23 October 2012 Melbourne
CLICK HERE to submit an expression of interest in presenting a paper or proposal for innovation and collaboration.
The Commonwealth has created 61 regional Medicare Local organisations to incubate and resource local innovations to overcome health system fragmentation and integrate the consumer experience of care. Whether Medicare Locals can succeed in this role will depend on whether consumers, carers, and their support professionals can come together in creative ways to develop innovations which tackle the systemic fragmentation in health care. For twenty years, Divisions of General Practice (the predecessors to Medicare Locals) were not able to develop such innovations, even though they were assigned a similar brief.
This event aims to explore consumer-centred innovations for Medicare Locals to take up, with a focus on aged care, chronic illness and mental health. Our aim is to assist those Medicare Locals that are serious about innovation to trial and implement initiatives that enhance the consumer experience of care.
We are particularly interested in innovations in four areas, with a shift in several of the key elements in the health system – information, care management, and resources – towards consumer authority and direction.
- Local input and design in Person-Controlled Electronic Health Records
- Consumer-Directed Care Coordination and Brokerage Packages for every consumer with a chronic and mental illness
- Person-Controlled Health Management Tools to enable self-management and consumer-centred coordination of care
- Local input and design in Access to Comparative Health Care Price and Safety Information
A map of the 61 Medicare Locals and their boundaries is available here.
This conference is strategic in its purpose and scope. It aims to develop practical initiatives for implementation. It is designed to make things happen. You are warmly invited to attend.
The National Campaign for Consumer-Centred Health Care will incorporate the outcomes of this conference into its ongoing campaign for transformational change in health care policy and practice towards consumer-centred health care.
CLICK HERE to read the Strategy Paper for 2012 and 2013 for the National Campaign for Consumer-Centred Health Care.
CLICK HERE for information on the Campaign.
CLICK HERE to submit an expression of interest in presenting a paper or proposal for innovation and collaboration.
Expressions of interest in presenting a paper or proposal or display should be forwarded, in no more than 300 words, by 7 September, using this form or by email to admin@partnerships.org.au
CLICK HERE to register.