Evening Exchange: Exploring Healthcare Opportunities – Insights from Denmark and Australia

This online evening featured three conversations with Hans Erik Henrikson, each led by a different facilitator. A break between sessions allowed for reflection and a stretch of the legs. Through each conversation, Hans unravelled the intricacies of Denmark’s healthcare reform and its implications for the global healthcare landscape while highlighting Australian case studies to celebrate local transformations in healthcare.

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Conversation 1: Denmark’s Healthcare Transformation

6:00pm

Gain insight into Denmark’s transformational health reform and the strategies employed to successfully shift care delivery from hospitals to primary healthcare, municipalities, and outpatient clinics. Learn how Denmark has redefined healthcare delivery to prioritise preventive care, enhance accessibility, and improve patient outcomes, alongside exploration of initiatives in Australia.

Facilitated by Monika Wheeler, CEO Healthy North Coast

Conversation 2: Digitalisation for Supporting Home Treatment

7:00pm

Delve into the innovative digital solutions driving Denmark’s home treatment initiatives, including services like Sundhed.dk, Medicinkortet, Sundhedsjournalen, and Min læge. Explore the role of technology in empowering patients, streamlining communication, and improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery, with reflections on Australian digital healthcare advancements.

Facilitated by Ian Treweek, District Director Digital Health, Mid North Coast Local Health District

Conversation 3: Advancing Elderly Care

8:00pm

Discover Denmark’s approach to advancing elderly care to improve the quality of life for senior citizens and support healthcare professionals in delivering comprehensive care, rehabilitation, and prevention services. Gain insights into the initiatives shaping elderly care policies and practices, and the opportunities for innovation and collaboration, with comparisons to Australian initiatives.

Facilitated by Associate Professor Kate Huggins, Senior Researcher, Institute for Health Transformation Deakin University

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There will be plenty of time for Q&A.

About Hans Erik Henriksen

Hans Erik Henriksen is CEO of Epital Health. Epital Health delivers patient centered digital health solutions and services which help society and healthcare authorities manage chronic patients to improve their quality of life. Until 2021, Hans Erik Henriksen was CEO of Healthcare DENMARK. Healthcare DENMARK is a public-private partnership organisation, with a national mandate to promote Danish healthcare solutions and competencies abroad. He has a solid healthcare background from different executive positions during the latest 20 years including being responsible for IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences in the Northern and Eastern part of Europe.

Conversation Facilitators

#1. Monika Wheeler, CEO Healthy North Coast

As Chief Executive, Monika is driving health system improvements to support primary health care access, healthy ageing, mental health, population health and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Monika played a key leadership role in supporting response efforts over the last three years to fires, floods and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Monika has nearly 20 years’ experience leading social policy strategy and health service delivery and holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Sydney. She has worked at the local, state, national and international levels in government and not-for-profit organisations.

#2 Ian Treweek, District Director Digital Health, Mid North Coast Local Health District

Ian has been in IT for over 25 years and in senior management roles for the past 18 years. His background spans many industries that include not for profit organisations, government departments, financial services companies, software development companies, and non-government organisations.

In the last 10 years Ian has led significant digital transformation programs in the non-profit and government sectors, his most recent role was in the disability sector at The Disability Trust where he led the uplift of all digital services improving outcomes for the organisation’s clients and participants.

#3 Associate Professor Kate Huggins, Senior Researcher, Institute for Health Transformation Deakin University

Kate supports and shapes the future of healthcare access and effectiveness by leading research translation. She’s a past scholar from the National Institute of Health (NIH, USA) Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Science in Health, and from the Monash-Harvard Macy Institute for leadership in Innovation in Healthcare. Kate works to address complex problems in healthcare, and to find effective prevention strategies or interventions for people at risk of, or with, diseases such as cancer, CVD and type 2 diabetes.