Quality data reporting, can private hospitals take the lead? (Clinician presentation to Panel session) Consumers demand transparency and ‘data geeks’ promise use ‘visualisation’, but how and why should private hospitals report their data? Can the private hospital sector take a lead? See the clinician perspective (we are all consumers - not just patients) from a panel containing a private hospitals chain CEO, a clinician and the policy manager of Consumers Health Forum.

1. DC2HC - Turning DiseasedCare into HealthyCare
A/Prof. Douglas Fahlbusch, MBBS, FANZCA, MAICD, GDM - 5APR2022
Quality data reporting
Can private hospitals take the lead?

2. Data is siloed
Key Impacts:
1. Duplication of effort (data entry & storage)
2. Inefficient processes
3. Rising costs
4. Increased risk
-> Unhappy patients
-> Unhappy staff (clinicians and administrators)
-> dissatisfaction, burnout …
Ever been a patient?
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3. $198B AUD p.a.
20% waste

4. Template by
I’m a doctor:
• Specialist Anaesthetist nearly 20 years
• Management training (GDM)
• Director training (GAICD)
I’m a patient:
• 2012 Cancer
• 2021 Trauma
Collected thoughts:
• Author
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Proactive HealthCare, rather than reactive DiseaseCare
Who am I?

5. Problem is less about tech -
More about change/innovation.
We need to discover ‘what matters most’
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6. Consumers
Everyone in Australia consumes healthcare
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/australias-health-2016-in-brief/contents/what-services-do-we-use
Who can tell us?
Not only patients - staff, doctors, referrers, rehabilitation …

7. What would VMO’s
like?
Peer (aggregate) data
Own data
Self-improvement, CPD
- helps patients, hospitals, healthcare
Competitive natures …

8. Outcomes
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What
actually
matters?
Cost
User Experience

9. Take the lead?
Volume of cases
Urgency of hospitalisation
Self-determinism
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10. Why?
- Innovation > Compliance
- Efficiency
- Outcomes
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11. www.douglasfahlbusch.com
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