HISA NSW - A focus on integrated care

Steve Badham

Director
Integrated Care Portfolio 
eHealth NSW

Steve Badham is the Director of the Integrated Care Portfolio at eHealth NSW.  The portfolio is leading the design and implemention of statewide approaches and enablers for Shared Care Planning, eReferrals, Patient Report Measures, Discharge Summaries, as well as the integration and adoption of the statewide shared electronic medical record, HealtheNet, and the My Health Record in NSW Health. 

Prior to this role Steve was the Program Director for the National Children’s Digital Health Collaborative, a national program funded by the Australian Digital Health Agency and led by NSW Health, with the aim to demonstrate and evaluate through a number of national initiatives how digital health can support the health and wellbeing of children.  Steve is a healthcare informatician and has worked in a range of program, change management, business analysis and informatics roles in both state and federal government and private industry in Australia and the UK.  

Cynthia Stanton

General Manager
Primary Care Advancement & Integration
Sydney North PHN

Cynthia Stanton is a healthcare professional with over 12 years’ experience developing and implementing primary care programs to support healthcare professionals and integrating health services to improve the patient journey. Her extensive knowledge of the Northern Sydney region comes from experience working previously in both the Division of General Practice and Medicare Local.

Cynthia has led successful primary care and integrated care programs including Sydney North’s Person Centred Medical Home program, Primary Care Nurse Transition program and Primary Care Education program, which has supported growth and development for local health professionals and strengthened the delivery of local primary care to patients.

At Sydney North Health Network, Cynthia leads the Primary Care Advancement and Integration team, who are focused on building primary care capacity through quality improvement, development of local health pathways and connecting health providers through digital health to support smoother transitions of care and the delivery of a simplified healthcare system for our community.

Cynthia’s knowledge of the primary care sector and understanding of the importance of integrated care in the patient’s healthcare journey is backed by a Bachelor of Science, Pharmacology.

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