How do we create health systems and services that are built to last? In this webinar, our two expert speakers will discuss the importance of embedding evaluation within health systems to inform decisions to improve, to expand or to contract existing services.
Using local health system data, published evidence and stakeholder engagement, cost effectiveness modelling can be used to explore and inform options for improvement, expansion and contraction of health services prior to implementing changes. Professor Jon Karnon will discuss the “Embedded Economist” program, which links economists with health care managers and clinicians to evaluate local health services.
With no shortage of new models of care and the introduction of quality improvement incentives, it is crucial that we know which programs should be kept and which should be discarded. In a constantly evolving healthcare
landscape, formative and ongoing embedded evaluations provide a robust way to assess which programs should be broadly implemented, maintained, or ultimately abandoned. Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski will focus on “Embedded Evaluation” and the value of evaluation to support health program sustainability.
This conversation will be moderated by Professor Henry Cutler, Inaugural director of the Centre for the Health Economy (MUCHE) at Macquarie University.
About the speakers:
Professor Jon Karnon
Professor Karnon leads the PCHSS Priority-Setting and Decision-Making in Healthcare Organisations Research Stream. He is a Health Economist at Flinders University, who has been developing and applying methods for the economic evaluation of health technologies and services for almost 25 years. He is past president of the Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand and has been a member of the Economic SubCommittee of the PBAC since 2009. He is leading the South Australian node of the ‘embedded Economist’ project, developing and applying processes for the use of health economics in a local health service.

Associate Professor Yvonne Zurynski
Yvonne Zurynski co-leads the PCHSS’ Observatory on Health System Sustainability. She is Associate Professor of Health System Sustainability at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University. She has broad experience and expertise in research and education across health sectors and disciplines having conducted research in settings
ranging from primary care to intensive care. She has conducted numerous studies of patient and provider experiences of the health system, including health services use and costs (such as out-of-pocket expenses incurred by consumers). Her research focuses on integrated models of care delivery that cross traditional boundaries of disease- sector or profession-specific care, and underscores the importance of evaluating implemented healthcare services.

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