599 - Driving Collaboration in Healthcare: Community and Industry Insights at Sparked Hobart

About this episode

The episode discusses data standards and implementation challenges in Australia's digital health sector with various experts.

In this episode of Talking HealthTech, Peter Birch speaks with Kate Ebrill, Grahame Grieve, Dr Chris Moy, Dr John Lambert, Sandra Cook, Dr Jill Freyne, Professor Brett Sutton, and Professor Mark Braunstein about data standards, information exchange, and implementation challenges in Australia’s digital health sector. The discussion explores the Sparked Initiative and its co-design approach to developing national standards, with a focus on creating consistent, secure, and meaningful ways to share health information. The episode also examines what it takes to move from policy into real-world implementation, including the role of infrastructure, vendor engagement, and support for different parts of the health system. Emerging technologies such as AI and FHIR are considered in the context of improving data quality, enabling interoperability, and shaping how health information is created, shared, and used. Across the conversation, contributors provide insights from clinical practice, technical architecture, and national strategy, offering a grounded view of the opportunities and challenges ahead as Australia continues to build a more connected and effective digital health ecosystem…

People in this episode

Host: Peter Birch

Guests: Kate Ebrill, Grahame Grieve, Dr Chris Moy, Dr John Lambert, Sandra Cook, Dr Jill Freyne, Professor Brett Sutton, Professor Mark Braunstein

Topics covered

• data standards
• information exchange
• digital health
• health information
• interoperability
• AI
• FHIR

Keywords

• digital health
• data standards
• health information exchange
• interoperability
• AI
• FHIR
• healthcare collaboration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sparked Initiative

Places: Hobart, Australia

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