Tuesday March 9

Kyla Kiester - Team Member: Today was another day of vocational visits, and I had the opportunity to visit two healthcare organizations in Benalla.  I spent the morning with Heather Duncombe, a health promotion coordinator at Delatite Community Health Center, learning about how government funding allows a team of healthcare professionals (dieticians, diabetes educators, etc) to partner and be colocated with general practitioners in order to better care for patients in the community.

My afternoon was spent with the North East Victorian Division of General Practitioners.  Operations Manager Dellys Sice and I enjoyed discussing how similar the priorities and areas of focus are for primary care in the US and Australia.  E-Health Coordinator Vimal Pasupathy demonstrated an amazing population management tool being implemented and utilized in the region that I know would make some Iowa physicians drool.  

Our entire team reunited in the evening for dinner with the RC of Benalla, who seemed to thoroughly enjoy our presentation on Iowa and D6000. 

Tomorrow we’re off to Kyabram…….