PRELIMINARY PROGRAM  last updated Tuesday, 07 October 2008

0800 - 0845

Registration

0845 - 0850

Opening

0850 - 0855

Welcome to Country - Aunty Josie Agiuis

0855 - 0915

Department of Health and Ageing

0915 - 0935

Future direction of SA Health within the casemix context

Dr Tony Sherbon

Chief Executive Officer, Department of Health, South Australia

0935 - 1020

Case Mix: Reflections and Directions

Dr Jason Sutherland

Assistant Professor, Center for Health Policy Research, USA

1020 - 1025

Session conclusion and House Keeping

1025 - 1055

Morning Tea

1055 - 1205

Concurrent Session 1-4

Session 1- Classification Development

Session 2 - Models of Care

Session 3 - Benchmarking 

Session 4 - Data Capture

1055 - 1120

Outpatient Classification - does outpatient clinic type offer homogeneity sufficient for casemix?

Erica Cole

West Australian Morbid Obesity Model of Care - The Bigger Picture

Jeff Hamdorf, Karina Moore

Treatment- and diagnosis-related benchmarking of population groups in Austria - a dynamic information tool

Nina Pfeffer

Can 'short lists' facilitate the collection of data on 'diagnosis', 'intervention' and 'presenting issue' in community health and outpatient care services?

Joe Scuteri

1120 - 1145

Developments in Costing and Classification of Emergency Department Activity

Kevin Ratcliffe

Maternity Funding & Workforce Reform: Strategies for better design, better value, better health and equity

Roslyn Donnellan-Fernandez

You Get What You Pay For: A Global Look at Balancing Demand, Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare Payment Reform

Carrie Schulman, Anne-Marie Feyer

Developing evidence based strategies to improve the reliability of emergency department triage

Marie Gerdtz

1145 -1210

Implementation of the Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS) and the System for the Classification of In-Patient Psychiatry (SCIPP) grouping methodology

Kevin Murphy

Emerging modalities of care project

George Bodilsen

ATC - ICD - Evaluating the reliability of prognoses for diagnoses derivating the ICD-10 Code from the ATC-Code

Gottfried Endel

1210 - 1310

Lunch

1310 - 1355

Evolution of casemix through e-health

Fran Thorn

Secretary, Department of Human Services, Victoria

1355 - 1440

Disease burden, disease projections and projections of health expenditure 2003-2033

Associate Professor Theo Vos

Director, Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness, University of Queensland, Australia

 1440 - 1510

Afternoon Tea

1510 - 1625

Concurrent Session 5-8

Session 5 - Classification Development

Session 6 - Funding Models

Session 7 - Quality & Outcomes

Session 8 - Planning

1510 -1535

An Overview of Canadian Casemix Initiatives

Jeff Hatcher

Development of Activity Based Funding: Issues in the development of an activity based funding model for Tasmania

Ellen France, Kevin Ratcliffe 

Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration - establishing measures of palliative care patient outcomes

Maree Banfield

Clinical Service Planning within Emergency Care: the use of a clinical classification system within an activity projection of Emergency Department activity

Kevin Ratcliffe, Greg Hardes

1535 -1600

Subacute Casemix Classification for Stroke Rehabilitation. Does It Help?

Roger Renton

5 years after introducing DRGs in Germany. Experiences form a university hospital

Eberhard Rembs

AROC: the state of rehabilitation outcomes in Australia in 2007

Frances Simmonds

Establishing indicators to assess health services for remote-dwelling Aboriginal mothers and infants

Malinda Steenkamp

1600 -1625

Casemix - Home and Away

Stephen Cole

The effect of setting WIES policy on WIES distribution between health services

Daniel Borovnicar

Developing Targets for Treatment of Stroke

Janet Law

Four Key Lessons from Casemix Data for Improving Healthcare Service Delivery

David Dean

0800 - 0900

Registration

0900 - 0945

How and why Ireland chose AR-DRGs and ICD-10AM - the review process and moving to 100% casemix-based prospective funding

Mr Claude Grealy

Manager, National Casemix Programme, Ireland

0945 - 1030

The place of casemix in National Health Reform

Dr Stephen Duckett

Executive Director, Reform and Development Division, Queensland Health

1030 - 1055

Morning Tea

1055 - 1140

A Journey from the dark side -from casemix sceptic to convert

Mr Jim Birch - AM

Lead Partner, Health and Human Services, Ernst & Young, South Australia

1140 - 1225

Infrastructure Development for Strengthening and Restructuring of Health Services' Financial Management Project, Turkey DRGs and Clinical Pathways: Chalk and Cheese or Cheese and Cheese?

Mr Ric Marshall - OAM, PhD.

1225 - 1325

Lunch

1325 - 1440

Concurrent Session 9-12

Session 9 - Costing

Session 10 - Funding Models

Session 11- Quality & Outcomes 

Session 12 - Service Improvements through Data

1325 - 1350

Costing beyond acute care

Karen Chudleigh

Costing Acute Paediatric Care Chris Aisbett, Ralph Hanson

Prospective payment to encourage system wide reduction in complications of care 

Peter McNair

Impact of education of clinical coders on the National Patient Database in Sweden

Olafr Steinum

1350 -1415

Teaching a Pig to Sing - Consolidated Reporting from Multiple Patient Costing Sites

Bill Stomfay, Geoff Luke

What is the optimal method of comparing the charges of hospitals?

Brian Hanning

Adverse Events in Austrian Hospitals from 2001 to 2006 Gottfried Endel

Can we plan for the future instead of obsolescence, please? Developing and implementing a (Casemix) data collection and reporting system that allows us to carry out our own ongoing development and maintenance

Jill Marcus, Sharyn Wilson

1415 - 1440

Can nursing care requirements be accurately measured based on an analysis of patient dependency data?

Virginia Plummer

Whose outcome is it anyway? - using Consumer Self-Report Outcome Measures in clinical practice

Jo-Anne Dwyer

Assessment of the quality of the MBS Voluntary Indigenous Identifier (VII) data 

Darren Benham

1440 - 1500

Afternoon Tea

1500 - 1545

Patient Classification beyond the hospital convert

Mr Steve Sutch - Sutch Consulting International Ltd, United Kingdom

1545 - 1630

Two decades of casemix - great ideas crippled by tunnel vision

Professor Kathy Eagar - Director of the Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD), University of Wollongong, Australia

1630 - 1645

Close

0800 - 0900

Registration

0900 - 1230

Workshop 1

An overview of the Emergency Triage Education Kit (ETEK): focusing on triage in special populations 

Marie Gerdtz RN., BN., A&E Cert., GDAET., PhD The School of Nursing and Social Work, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Workshop 2

Spinal Injuries

Frances Simmonds

The AROC workshop is being held independently through AROC all bookings and inquiries for this one need to go to AROC. Please contact AROC (02 4221 5879; aroc@uow.edu.au) to express an interest in attending the workshop.

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0900 - 1230

Workshop 3

Casemix Basics

Professor Kathy Eagar, Director of the Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD), University of Wollongong, Australia

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0900 - 1230

Workshop 4

Analytical Methods in Casemix Applications

Jeff Hatcher, Senior Methodologist, Case Mix, The Canadian Institute for Health Information and Dr Jason M. Sutherland PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Health Policy Research, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 

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