The NSW Ministry of Health (MoH) wished to determine the merits of publicly funding solid organ perfusion systems for use in organ donation. NSW clinicians believed that the use of the systems would increase the number of donor organs that would be suitable for transplant. To inform its investment...
The Life Savings Drug Program (LSDP) was established in the mid-1990s to provide people with rare and life-threatening diseases access to expensive medicines that were not considered to be cost-effective for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) listing. The purpose of the Review of the LSDP (i.e. nine disease-based reviews undertaken...
Bendigo Health has a strategy for implementing an Electronic Patient Record (EPR). The business case for an EPR has been approved and the project is underway with a go-live expected in March 2020. A community services solution for the whole network including the Loddon Mallee Rural Health Alliance...
The Transport Accident Commission (TAC) provides purpose-built accommodation for those with significant injuries through the Residential Independence (RIPL) program. RIPL provides independence, while at the same time ensuring clients have the support they need, when and where they need it. In terms of Assistive Technology, a proprietary solution from Leviton...
ComCare was implemented as the clinical information system for a range of community-based services in the Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) in 2014 following a review of adult community health services in 2013. This decision represented a shift from the NSW Health State Strategy that implemented the Community...
The My Health Record (MHR) system is an online summary of key health information for every Australian unless they have opted out of having a record. The Australian Government needed assistance to develop a Framework to provide a blueprint for the secondary use of data in the MHR system...
The Department of Health had commissioned several reviews of the Indigenous Pharmacy Programs (IPP), which concluded that the programs had been effective in improving access to medicines for Indigenous people, but that there was scope for reform and refinement. To formulate policy options to streamline the IPPs, the Department...
On behalf of its members, NADA engaged HealthConsult to undertake a costing study to frame discussions with the NSW Ministry of Health around the cost of non-government organisation (NGO) service delivery in the alcohol and other drugs sector. Working with senior and experienced staff at NGO sites across metro...
IHPA required a ‘state of the art’ in-depth study for developing and understanding the various alternatives for allocating costs to patient and non-patient at hospitals in Australia to definitively answer the question ‘are all methods equivalent?’ Working with costing practitioners at study sites across three states and jurisdictional health authorities, HealthConsult...
A major compensation insurer wanted to understand the difference in the charges they paid on behalf of claimants for hospital and medical services compared to those paid by similar organisations. The pure charges comparison was achieved by benchmarking, for each claim, the charges for the volume and service mix of...