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AHIA National Conference 2005
The Pathway to Sustainable Affordability
8-10 November 2005
The AHIA 2005 Conference considered the future of Health Insurance in Australia and the increasing challenges faced by health funds to provide an affordable and quality product to the consumer. Issues that were addressed included:
- strategies for change for addressing an ageing population
- chronic diseases
- growing membership
- the impact of medical technology and innovation on costs
Conference Presentations
Click on each of the speaker’s name below to download their presentations in PDF version. Presentation downloads are available for all invited speakers that have approved their work for web publication.
Session
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Topic
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Speakers and Presentations
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Overview
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DAY ONE | |||
1
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Sustainable affordability in health care financing
& delivery |
Bernard J Tyson, Senior Vice President, Brand Strategy and Management, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
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2
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Sustainable affordability – Australian and New
Zealand experiences with Private Health Insurance |
Professor Ian Harper, Executive Director, Melbourne Business School
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Dr Ian McPherson, Chief Executive Officer, Southern Cross Healthcare, New Zealand
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3
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Chronically ill patients – Health fund approaches
to coordination of care and self management |
Bruce Levy, Group Manager, Health Services, Medibank Private
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Chronic Care Initiatives at Medibank Private
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Virginia Haggar, Director-Education, International Diabetes Institute |
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Keith Finney, General Manager, Provider & Procurement, BUPA Australia Health |
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4
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Responses to providing better quality health care at an affordable cost; The potential for more effective use of data |
DR Martin Van Der Weyden, Editor, The Medical Journal of Australia | Safety in Australian Healthcare: who cares?
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The Hon DR Michael Wooldridge |
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Professor Peter Collignon, Director, Infectious Diseases Unit, The Canberra Hospital (Presentation delivered by Professor Lindsay Grayson, Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health and Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne) (10.2 MB ppt) |
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DAY TWO |
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5
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An ageing Australia: Implications for health expenditure and private health insurance |
Bernard Salt, Partner, KPMG |
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Rhonda Parker, Chief Executive, Positive Ageing Foundation of Australia |
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Professor Allan McLean, Director, National Ageing Research Institute |
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6
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Musculoskeletal disease and injury, treatment and rehabilitation |
Professor Stephen Graves, Director, Australian Orthopaedic Assoc. National Joint Replacement Registry | The Scope of Musculoskeletal Disease – Treatment and Costs
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DR Marlene Fransen, Senior Research Fellow, Injury Prevention and Trauma Care, The George Institute for International Health, University of Sydney |
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7
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Can we keep pharmaceutical costs affordable and new medicines viable? |
Professor Andrew Wilson, Chair, Economic Committee, Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, DoHA |
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8
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The ACCC view of key competition issues impacting on the Private Health Sector |
John Martin, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission |
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