Want a high-level overview of what’s going on in the digital health market in Australia? Tips on how to bring your health tech startup there? Insight on what’s ahead for health data exchange, telehealth, and Australia's unified national electronic health record system? There are few better to ask than the CEO of the Australian Digital Health Agency, Amanda Cattermole.

Talk about insider information! The Australian Digital Health Agency is the organization that stewards the national health record system, champions for nationwide interoperability and FHIR standards, and owns-and-advances the tech infrastructure that underpins both. So, from this vantage point, with more than a decade of ‘foundation laying’ and global pandemic behind us...what’s the state-of-play for digital health in Australia?

“We’re at the cusp of the next frontier…the next conversation…the next wave of change,” says Amanda -- and we dive into exactly what that means and how the conversation about digitally-enabled healthcare has evolved since the pandemic. “We're suddenly at this inflection point,” she says, “where I think consumers are driving the conversation -- and that's an extraordinary shift.”

A shift from what? And, what can Amanda tell us about what Australian health consumers are demanding now? Is everything in place to meet that demand and deliver on that promise of more digitalized, convenient, and personalized care? If not…what’s missing?? Amanda talks telehealth, virtual care, e-prescribing, digital health startups, the Aussie VC investment ecosystem, and why this a “really good time” to get into Aussie market.

Filmed at MedInfo 2023 in Sydney, Australia, July 2023, with special thanks to the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.

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