Daniel McCabe Part 2: Consumers want access to their health information and Daniel McCabe wants to make it happen

08/29/24 • 20 min

Today’s episode features part 2 of our extended interview with Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary for the Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division at the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. We dissect the government’s ambitious agenda and their determination to put patients/consumers in the centre of healthcare innovation.

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Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

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Consumers want access to their health information and Daniel McCabe wants to make it happen

Today’s episode features part 1 of our extended interview with Daniel McCabe, First Assistant Secretary for the Medicare Benefits and Digital Health Division at the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. We dissect the government’s ambitious agenda and their determination to put patients/consumers in the centre of healthcare innovation.

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Now you can get a blood pressure test while you shop for DIY items and munch down on a sausage sizzle. Will the vegans invade that oh-so-precious Australian institution of a sausage in the Bunnings car park?

Patient portals are not yet universal in Australia, but they will be if Kath Feely, Chief Allied Health Information Officer across Melbourne’s Parkville hospital precinct has anything to do with it. (Go allied health!)

Medical AI scribes are getting traction - can they be used to effortlessly create a version of the clinical note for patients? What do Pulse+IT readers think?

And yay to our friends in Canada who have launched the first patient-mediated International Patient Summary in North America. It’s kind of a big deal! Will Australia be following their lead?

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Production by Octopod Productions | Ivan Juric

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Resources:

BMJ Open Life Expectancy Link
Kate McDonald’s article on Dr Chris Longhurst, ‘Pyjama time, generative AI and the rise of the chief health AI officer’ Link