Dr Andy Papa-Adams – Chief Medical Officer and GM Member Outcomes HBF
Ian McCrum – Manager Hospital Network HBF
Vidhatri Lakkim Setti – Head of Customer Communications Management HBF
Honzik Jurza – Data Scientist HBF
Billy Martin – GM Architecture & Innovation HBF
This is a complex Challenge and you may find it useful to consider the following questions when building out your prototype:
Of the 94,800 palliative care-related hospitalisations, almost 3 in 5 (56%) ended in the patient dying in hospital in 2021–22. 80% of people who have expressed a need to die at home, 20% of them had this need meet. (Cancer Council Australia in a study on advance cancer patient).
Identifying palliative care (including end-of-life care) in existing data collections and health settings remain a key issue, particularly for care delivered in community, primary care, and residential aged care settings. For example, limited national data are currently available on community-based palliative care services and Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS)-subsidised services provided by general practitioners and non-palliative care medical specialists.
You may want to talk to your Challenge Mentors about the following ideas as you developing you prototype:
The HBF Health Hospital Episodes data contains data both patient demographic and diagnostic classification data for individuals who experienced a hospital episode and claimed for said episode through their HBF Health Insurance policy and includes data from July 2014 to August 2024. This data is real world data and as such certain sensitive values, such as customer and hospital identifiers, have been hashed to ensure the privacy of our members. If any of you are unfamiliar with hashing, this website is a great introduction. The data set contains data covering a wide range of hospital admissions and not just the episodes relating directly to the question your team will be tackling, this is by design.
Other variables include;
You are free to resolve this Challenge by developing your prototype in whatever means you may like. Our mentors, partners and organising team have thought of the following techniques as being viable methods to resolve the Challenge:
We would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which the WADSIH office is located, the Whadjuk people of the Nyungar Nation.