“Quicklook” Assessment of Greater Adelaide's Assets & Challenges ...

o Idea is to present information about the patient’s health to figure out
standards.
• HER- GEHR = good European health record; storing data according to standards.
2 key people were South Australians. Looking for government funding to develop
that arm ($5M)
• Major problem: systems were pilot systems. There is a strong bias towards local
expertise. People will help to develop the IP and they let his company have the IP.
The problem is the government control of IP and IT. Government outsourced
IT/government computing so it is not driving local creativity. There is now no
money to put into rolling out these systems. The outsourced people get first crack
at all public IT systems. This is a definite impediment to progress. What is the
outcome for small business – need to ask the government what has been
achieved – what is in the contract. They were going to use Oasis for state IT, but
they caved, and then they signed an agreement with Canada.
• Decided that they need to work with other companies. Huge amount of knowledge
and skills in:
o 3X University
o Clinical
o Nursing
o Web-client information
• Major project (mnet $36M, they think they will get $2.4m) galvanized things now.
Philosophy is that they will add into what the government is already doing or have
potential for funding from other organizations.
• M-net project: federally funded scheme to provide a wireless network along the
Adelaide precinct. One square mile involved. This was a technical proposal. They
won funding for it because they had a health informatics angle on it. This is the
latest technology 3G ‘stuff.’ They’d like to nudge the border to include 2 more
hospitals. They have also included Whaler (?) using an optical fiber link (and other
aboriginal regions). They have the support of the Adelaide city council.
• 10% of hospital admissions are from diabetes. They are proposing to work on
diabetes and long-term care. Want to include retinal imaging/diabetes/care
planning. This will get them federal funding. This must be a consortium effort in
order to accomplish this big task.
• Mnet is a commercial consortium by 22 companies. It is up to individuals to get up
and ask for $$$. There are industry areas – this is only partial funding
• Ross Adler is chairing World Congress 2002 that is coming to Adelaide in March.
• Telemed: is a success story from the university of Adelaide. They provide
telemedicine for in-vitro fertilization.
• Government institutions are not allowed to go out and borrow money. “We need to
be able to do that to give people the opportunity” (Patricia)
Dr Jurgen Michaelis of BioInnovation: What is here now (public and private) and how he
sees the bioscience cluster and what strategies and initiatives are there. One year old
organization – public corporation. Reporting to the deputy premier. Funding of $16M
over 4 yrs to put in to strategic areas. Big condition on state government.
• Base: 3 universities, 4 teaching hospitals, 3 medical research centers
• Public: CSIRO, Aus Wine Research institute, SARDI, PIRSA Food and Fibre
• Private: Bresagen, Gropep, bionomics, Faulding, Hamilton, Geneworks, Medvet,
Cmax, Northfield, and Prosthetics
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