The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI)

✨ Season's Greetings from The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI)! 💫 As an incredible year comes to an end, and whether we connected with you through health conferences, research or consulting projects, we thank you for being part of our community. AusHSI will be closed from 24 December, reopening on 2 January 2025. Wishing you a restful and happy holiday season and a great start to 2025! 🎉

To celebrate the end of a successful year, as well as our recent move to a brand new office, this year's wrap-up party was also a housewarming! Held in our spacious new dining and balcony area with sweeping views of Brisbane, the #AusHSI team enjoyed catching up and relaxing over delicious food and drink. 🎅🏠 A big shoutout to everyone who made the afternoon so much fun and brought their A-game to the annual round of Bad Santa, which got everyone strategising to steal the best gifts! 🤼🎁

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From #digitalhealth to authentic community engagement with research and everything in between, the three days of the 13th Health Services Research Conference went by in a flash! The #AusHSI team left feeling energised and inspired by all of the connections that were made and the abundance of excellent presentations and discussions exploring the latest #healthservices research. Check out our #HSR24 conference recap and AusHSI presentation highlights to find out more: https://lnkd.in/gicRyeEv Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) 📷 Susanna Cramb Alison Farrington Rangi Weerasuriya Steven McPhail Nirmali Sivapragasam Tasmiah Sad Sutopa Manasha Fernando Linh Vo Hannah Carter Qing Xia Michelle Allen, PhD Bridget Abell Amina Tariq Thomasina Donovan Nicole White Eloise Hummell Paul Kuwornu Pakhi Sharma Megumi Lim Sian Conway Lamb Sundresan "Sunny" Naicker, PhD Clifford Afoakwah Chaminda Jayasekara Sumudu Hewage (Hay/va/gey) Adrian Barnett Jo-Anne Ward Megan Campbell Ruth Tulleners Zephanie Tyack

Congratulations to Dr Qing Xia, #AusHSI Research Fellow - Health Economics, who has been awarded a 2024 Carla Patterson Memorial Grant for research on end-of-life care preferences and how they differ between culturally and linguistically diverse individuals and the general Australian population.

#HSR24 Day 3 opened with a plenary on the current state of decision making in #healthcare by international keynote speaker, Prof Michael Drummond (University of York), sponsored by The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI). This was followed by a panel discussion on #healtheconomics in the digital era, facilitated by #AusHSI Prof Steven McPhail and including Prof Mike Drummond, Prof Jason Pole and Prof Tracy Comans (UQ Centre for Health Services Research) and Prof Julie Ratcliffe (Flinders University). Chaired by #HSRAANZ President, Dr Alison Pearce, the final plenary featured a panel of funder and policy makers on the future landscape for #healthservicesresearch with Dr Catherine de Fontenay (Comissioner, Productivity Commission), Dr RAELENE DONOVAN (eHealth Queensland), Julie Andrews (HCF Australia) and A/Prof Philip Haywood (University of Sydney). Still many cautions and considerations for #healthservices research in the digital age, but also so many opportunities!

🏆 We have a winner! Congratulations to Prof Melissa Baysari, whose guess of 345 jelly beans was the closest to the actual amount in the jar: 352! Enjoy your The Somewhere Co. picnic cooler bag Melissa, ideally on a beach after an excellent #HSR24 conference! 🏖

Welcomed by UQ Centre for Health Services Research’s Prof Jason Pole, Day 2 of #HSR24 opened with a brilliant plenary on meaningful and authentic lived experience and community involvement, sponsored by The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI). The session featured presentations by Prof Melissa Baysari (University of Sydney), Prof Sarah Larkins (James Cook University) and Dr Fiona Russo (University of Southern Queensland). Dr Adrienne Young then joined the invited speakers for a panel discussion lead by A/Prof Zephanie Tyack responding to thought-provoking audience questions on challenges faced by health services researchers in this complex space.

🤔 How many jelly beans are there in the jar? Visit the #AusHSI stand at #HSR24 to have a guess and go in the draw to win a beach-ready The Somewhere Co. picnic cooler bag! 🥇 Winner to be announced at morning tea on Friday 6th December.

Thank you to Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young AC PSM, Governor of Queensland, Uncle Billy Cummings and Professor Julia Adler-Milstein (University of California, San Francisco) for a wonderful start to #HSR24!