Prof Keith McNeil |
Professor Keith McNeil is an internationally recognised respiratory physician trained in heart and lung transplantation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK. Keith established the Queensland Lung Transplant Service at The Prince Charles Hospital in 1996, and soon thereafter returned to Papworth where he was Lead Physician for the heart and lung transplant program. From there, Keith has occupied a vast array of positions in both senior clinical and senior administrative roles, including as CEO of tertiary hospital and health services (RBWH and Metro North HHS in Brisbane, and Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK), Head of IT and CCIO in the NHS, and Deputy Director General, CMO and CCIO in Queensland. Keith currently works in the South Australian health system as the Commissioner for Excellence and Innovation in Health. Keith presents across various sectors as a valued contributor to clinical and patient safety benefits associated with technology and digital transformation in the healthcare setting. His vision is to align research, precision medicine, and the data and information agenda with health system reform and transformation. Session: Keynote Presenting Title: Healthcare Outcomes, Improvement, and Sustainability. Why (Good) Data is so Critical... As we move further into the 21st century, the sustainable delivery of safe, high quality health care, has never presented a greater challenge. Increasing demand on health services, reflecting a population demographic characterised by ageing and/or complex chronic comorbid disease, is placing considerable strain on most health systems, which in the developed world were designed in the 20th century to deal with episodic acute presentations and illness. Continued over-reliance on acute hospital based systems needs to be urgently revisited to enable more effective distribution of resources to facilitate provision of care closer to or in the home, wherever clinically appropriate. For all healthcare presentations requiring acute hospital care and/or care in the community, the march towards precision medicine (and the wider precision healthcare agenda) will be critical to address the waste and harm delivered every day across our modern day health systems. Critically underpinning these reform agendas, and indeed any change agenda within the complexity of healthcare delivery, is and will continue to be, the need for high quality, longitudinal health outcome based data, enabling highly tailored/personalised treatment to be delivered first time, every time, to every patient that requires care within our systems. A modern digital ecosystem based on interoperability and advanced data analytics, will enable us to embrace 21st century expectations, and to deliver the levels and standard of care we all aspire to provide over the years to come. It will enable us to harness the promise of AI, and to fully leverage data as one of our most valuable assets. |
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