The Data Is Moving to the Clinic: Why Research Genomics Infrastructure Must Plug Into Healthcare

Description:

Australia's recently announced $200M Precision Medicine research initiative has an ambitious goal: to embed genomics into mainstream healthcare for good. Genomics research generates incredibly valuable evidence, but it has done little to replace paper ordering, non-standardised tests, siloed data, and the lack of national oversight of the genomic tests actually being done across the country. This presentation will discuss how genomic data is moving from research to the clinic, and why research data infrastructure must pivot to interface with the healthcare stack: consent, ordering, labs, results, storage, health records, identity (IHI), My Health Record and more. The speaker will dig into the practical problems, map out the emerging ecosystem, and highlight what it means for what we build next.

Dr Natalie Thorne has been working on Genomical since it was first developed in 2015. With over 25-years of experience in bioinformatics and genomics, Nat’s expertise spans multiple disciplines: from computational biology, healthcare and pathology to software development and data governance.

*Speaker: *

Dr Natalie Thorne, Chief Scientific Officer, Genomical

Date/Time: Tuesday 11 August 2026, 1-2 pm AEST / 12:30 - 1:30 pm ACST / 11 - 12 pm AWST

Who the webinar is for:

This webinar is for everyone interested in the implementation of clinical genomics into healthcare and the supporting digital infrastructure required.

How to join:

This webinar is free to join but you must register for a place in advance.

https://www.biocommons.org.au/events/genomical

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