DRAFT PROGRAM SESSIONS
The APHA 39 National Congress brings together leaders from across the private health care sector to discuss the ever changing health landscape in Australia.
The impact of innovative technologies on health care will be a focus for the APHA Congress in 2021. What new technology is already being employed overseas and what impact will it have when it arrives on our shores?
Issues such as technology advances, cyber-attacks and artificial intelligence as well the risks or benefits they pose will all be discussed through panel sessions, debates and plenaries.
Sunday 3 April 2022
| TIME | SESSION | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.00 – 13.00 | Registration desk open | |||
| 17.30 – 20.00 | Registration desk open | |||
| 18.00 – 20.00 | Welcome Reception | |||
Monday 4 April 2022
| TIME | SESSION | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07.30 – 08.30 | Sponsored breakfast session | Johnson & Johnson | ||
| 09.00 – 09.30 | Congress opening | APHA National President | Lachlan Henderson | |
| 09.30 – 09.35 | HESTA | Diamond Sponsor Welcome | Tim Mitchell-Adams | |
| 09.35 – 10.30 | Awards Finalist | New and innovative programs and projects: APHA Awards for Excellence finalists | Finalists in the APHA Awards for Excellence will present on their Award entries. Play a role in determining the winners -the final five percent of their score will be awarded through an audience poll. | |
| 10.35 – 11.00 | Morning tea | |||
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Keynote | How has society changed since COVID- 19 hit | COVID-19 has impacted every facet of Australian life. What are some key changes in society and how will they impact the private hospital sector. | Simon Kuestenmacher |
| 12.00 – 13.15 | Panel session | New models of care – how do we prepare for new models of patient centred care and what is in the pipeline? | The Pandemic forced a rapid shift in funding and delivery of telehealth. What new models of care should hospitals be considering? | Evan Rawstron, Chris Moy, Janne McMahon – Moderator: Neale Fong |
| 13.15 – 14.05 | Lunch | |||
| 14.05 – 15.05 | Panel session | Workforce Challenges Beyond the Pandemic – How will the hospital sector deal with the backlog | Hospitals were experiencing workforce shortages before the pandemic and these have been compounded by closed borders shutting down skilled migration. Aged care reforms will add to pressures on the nursing workforce – what solutions are there to address these issues? | Kate Gillan, Bernadette Eather, Allison Macmillan – Moderator: Peter Mott |
| 15.05 – 15.30 | Afternoon tea | |||
| 15.30 – 16.15 | Panel session | Running a hospital in an increasingly cyber insecure world | Digital attacks are an increasing reality for Australian businesses. With attacks happening all over the world at an alarming rate how can you prepare for and prevent a cyber security storm? | Phil O’Sullivan, Lib Clark – Moderator: Tim Yeoh |
| 16.30 – 17.30 | Small hospitals networking | |||
| 18.30 – 22.30 | APHA Gala Dinner | Venue: Adelaide Town Hall | ||
Tuesday 5 April 2022
| TIME | SESSION | TITLE | DESCRIPTION | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07.30 – 08.30 | Sponsored breakfast session | Sterequip | ||
| 09.00 – 09.55 | Panel session | Quality data reporting, can private hospitals take the lead? | Consumers demand transparency and ‘data geeks’ promise use ‘visualisation’, but how and why should private hospitals report their data? Can the private hospital sector take a lead? Hear perspectives from private hospitals and a clinician. | Bernadette Eather, Douglas Fahlbusch, Jo Root – Moderator: Christine Gee |
| 09.55 – 10.40 | Plenary session | Focusing on resilience | GP and wellbeing expert Dr Fiona Moir explores how managers can enhance the emotional, mental and general psychological wellbeing of staff, including building resilience especially with the disruption of COVID and making their organisation more effective and productive. | Fiona Moir |
| 10.40 – 11.10 | Morning tea | |||
| 11.10 – 11.55 | Panel session | Short-stay surgery – the way of the future? | Short-stay surgery is gaining traction in Australia, but is it the best option for all patients? | Scott Bell, Linda Swan, Adrian Bauze – Moderator: Anne Crouch |
| 11.55 – 12.55 | Panel session | Self pay surgery – is this a viable alternative to private health insurance? | There are now a number of finance options to pay for care in private hospitals. What are the issues and challenges in pursuing this model? | Lloyd Adams, Mian Bi, Jo Root – Moderator: Alan Morrison |
| 12.55 – 13.55 | Lunch | |||
| 13.55 – 14.25 | Plenary session | The good, the bad and the ugly of private healthcare funding – lessons from overseas | Looking at other funding systems where RHC operates, identifying any features that might make sense in the Australian context, ones that wouldn’t work here and ones that should be avoided at all costs? Looking at adverse outcomes for patients/hospitals/doctors driven by funding models and how private and public align in different counties and future opportunities. | Ed Byrne |
| 14.25 – 15.15 | Keynote | The worlds first virtual hospital, the hospital with no beds | A transformational approach to healthcare: How the world’s first hospital without any beds is delivering innovative virtual care programs to improve patient care and experiences.Also the USA experience of COVID-19. | Fred McQueary |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Closing remarks | |||
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Afternoon tea | |||