Dr Norman Swan, presenter of ABC Radio National’s Health Report, will launch a fascinating new report co-funded by the Australia Council into the important role of creativity and the creative occupations in healthcare this Tuesday, 7 October.
The healthcare system exists in a world with ever increasing demands for information. And as CCI's new study, Getting Creative in Healthcare demonstrates, it is increasingly critical that the sector is able to effectively harness the power of information and communication technologies.

A second set of case studies will be prepared to present a reasonably balanced picture. An analysis of all the case studies and the available statistics on creative activities relevant to the healthcare sector will be prepared for a report and journal publication.

Areas for case studies were selected on the basis of a preliminary analysis of Australian data on creative occupations contributing to healthcare (from the CCI database), and on healthcare itself (expenditure, disease burden, service providers, etc.), together with a literature search on the involvement of creative activities in the healthcare sector in advanced countries.