Bio: Peter Sprivulis, M.B.B.S., a 2004-05 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, coordinates access to acute health services in Western Australia (WA) as director of acute demand management, Western Australian Emergency Services. Sprivulis is also clinical director of the Western Australian Emergency Medicine Clinical Practice Improvement Unit, and a clinical associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Western Australia. Sprivulis has published in the areas of health informatics, emergency department and hospital patient flow, indigenous access to emergency care, triage and snakebite toxinology. He is a fellow of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and the Australian College of Health Informatics and works clinically at Fremantle Hospital Emergency Department, WA.
Placement: Harvard University
Mentors: Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., F.R.C.P., Institute for Healthcare Improvement; David Bates, M.D., M.Sc., Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard School of Public Health
Project: Healing Fractured Healthcare Delivery: The Economic Benefits of Health Information Exchange Interoperability for Australia
Description: Sprivulis' project aimed to estimate the costs and benefits for Australia of implementing health information exchange interoperability between health care providers. He used an existing U.S. cost-benefit model based on four levels of interoperability: paper-based; machine transportable; machine readable; and machine interpretable or semantic interoperability. He validated this model for Australia via expert review.