Monday Lunch Live

4 September 2023

There is significant evidence that health data usage is a major capability gap in Australian health and medical research. When cancer patients are diagnosed and move from primary to hospital care, and back for post-treatment care, this can impact how their health issues are identified and solved.

Bringing together data sources can build a more complete picture of how and where patients access care, how they’re being diagnosed and their quality of life after treatment.

This webinar provides a comprehensive look at the capabilities of data linkage, including:

• Estimating optimal time to treatment to improve colorectal cancer outcomes: a linked-data study
• Co-morbidities in cancer survivors & how data linkage is being used to understand survivorship care in general practice
• Palliative care & associations between patients who received home visits or anticipatory prescribing - these patients having far less hospital care use at the end of life.