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Making the delivery of healthcare services more efficient and accessible is good for everyone, said Kore. ai Vice President ANZ, Paul Rilstone, and Healthily Managing Director, Dr Tina Campbell. We zoom into how AI automation can advance health outcomes for Aussie patients down under.
HOW AI-POWERED AUTOMATION CAN DRIVE BETTER HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS
Healthcare is a perennial‘ hot button’ issue for Australians from all walks of life and, with a Federal election in the offing, the quality and cost of services will continue to feature heavily in all parties’ policy pronouncements and funding promises.
Health spending has long been one of the country’ s biggest ticket Budget items. In FY2023, we spent an estimated AU $ 252.5 billion on health-related goods and services, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Some AU $ 178.7 billion of that figure came from state and federal governments, with non-government sources accounting for the remainder.
Australia’ s ageing population means those figures are not likely to reduce in the foreseeable future. Individuals aged over 65 are heavier users of hospital and GP services: they account for more than one in five emergency department visits and 95 % see a GP regularly.
Thanks to increasing life expectancy, 16 % of the population were in this age bracket, as of 30 June, 2020. Wind the clock back to 1995 and that figure was 12 %, while in 1970, just 8.3 % of the population had reached this milestone.
Maintaining a world class health system to support us all
Continuing to provide the quality care we all want and deserve, whatever our age and life stage, is no straightforward matter, for both the governments funding it and the hardpressed healthcare professionals charged with delivering it.
Demand for services outstrips supply in many areas of the sector and waiting lists to see some practitioners can stretch to many months.
Kore. ai Vice President ANZ, Paul Rilstone
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