Health Care Innovation

Engineer Comprehensive Health Care Delivery Approaches for Major Illness in Western Sydney

Our Vision (Health Care Innovation)

1. To forge strategic alliances among multisector leaders such as Community Health Services; General Practice Organisations and Members; Allied Health, Pharmacy Guild and Members and Acute Care and Specialty Services to more effectively and efficiently  address and deliver integrated services for high burden, high health costs diseases. 
2. To find ways to realise the goals numerous innovation plans and strategies being rolled out in Western Sydney.
3. Seek out ways to manage health care problems more effectively in the community and General Practice with the aim of preventing them from escalating into more serious problems that will consume resources of the acute care services.

What we do

1. Facilitate the development of integrated health care management systems from community health, general practice, specialty practice and hospital services that more effectively screen for multiple chronic health conditions (i.e. obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and illness)  to ensure that patients are given the most effective balance and combination of advice and treatment.
2. Promote more complete and quality health care for chronic disease in the community and general practice that reduces the need for hospitalization and where hospitalization is necessary ensure that the health care changes in hospital are well integrated with the pre-hospital and post-hospital care management plans and information between the community and general practice providers and hospital staff flows in a timely and effective manner.
3. Develop Chronic Disease (and disease entity specific – e.g. Diabetes) strategic plans for the next 5-10 years that include management components from community services, general practice and specialty and hospital services based on epidemiological data, economic analysis, best clinical practices,  projected service requirements and expected outcomes.
4. Seek ways to use contemporary digital information systems to enhance information management and access to improve the effectiveness and quality of health care delivery

How we work

1. Work with existing leaders in SWAHS and in the area and catalyses the establishment of a Western Sydney Leaders Forum to enable partner organizations to collaborate on the projects related to Health Innovation to improve health care of the people in Western Sydney.
2. Develop a strong professional communication / education expertise to include: Strategic mobilization to maximize network effectiveness; Conducting policy fora, think tanks, community consultations, media events and programs (ethnic and main stream),  web based communication (portals & podcasts); develop a corporate social responsibility recognition program for the private sector 
3. Develop assessment, monitoring, evaluation and management systems to guide the work. Appropriately use: economics, gene mapping, pathology databases, survey methods, epidemiology, formative communication research, GIS databases, mobile and internet information systems, total quality management, establishing best practices, legislation and inspection.  
4. Secure adequate human and financial resources to mobilize and support the networks and work with the networks to ensure sufficient resources are available to them to implement the programs. This includes developing and responding to proposals from the Commonwealth and State government and securing support from the private sector. Most of the work will be supported by insertions into the partner organizations normal activities.