Fellows - Brian Richards

           
Dr Brian Richards
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Health Stewardship, ANU
Executive Manager, Health Technology and Medical Services Group, and Principal Medical Adviser on Medicare Policy, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
B.Sc. (Med.) (Hons.), M.B., B.S., F.A.M.A.
Contact Details:
Telephone: 0419 992 153
Email: brian.richards@anu.edu.au

 

 

Biography

Dr Brian Richards is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Health Stewardship.  In this role, he chairs the Research and Investment Advisory Committee at the Australian e-Health Research Centre.

Dr Richards is also the Executive Manager of the Health Technology and Medical Services Group in the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, and the department’s Principal Medical Adviser on Medicare policy, responsible for providing high level advice to the Australian Government in the areas of health financing, primary and ambulatory care, chronic disease management, and quality and safety of health care.  Prior to these roles he was the department’s National Director of e-Health Implementation.

Before joining the department in 2005, Dr Richards was Chief Information Officer of the Health Insurance Commission (now Medicare Australia) for five years, with key responsibilities for information management (including privacy and security of personal health information), e-business development, and international consulting services.  Dr Richards came to that role after seven years as the Chief Executive Officer of the ACT Division of General Practice, and seventeen years as a medical practitioner in primary care. 

Current Student

Dr Richards is currently co-supervising a PhD scholar at the Centre, Dr Robin Guda

Publications

• Flint DM, Wahlqvist ML, Prinsley DM, Parish AE, Fazio V, Peters K & Richards B (1979) Nutritional assessment of community and institutionalised elderly,  Food Nutr. Notes Rev. 36, 173
• McNally CA, Richards BH, Mira M, Sprogis A, Douglas RM, Martin CM (1995) Advancing General Practice through Divisions, NCEPH Discussion Paper #10, ANU, Canberra
• Richards B (1995) Divisions of General Practice: Too much, too quickly, Med J Aust 162 (1): 3-4
• Ashwell S & Richards B (1998) Report on the Development of the ACT Model of Coordinated Care and Resource Material for General Practitioners, in ‘Care Plus Trial Final Evaluation Report, NCEPH, Canberra, March 2000
• Richards B (1999) Blended Payments:  Will they work in general practice? AFP 1999 28 (4): 391-2
• Richards B, Bolton P, Veale B, Quinlan F, (1999), Information Technology in General Practice, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra
• Dugdale P & Richards B (1999) With Both Eyes Open: reflexivity in the design of the ACT Coordinated Care Trial, an RCT of an administrative system, in ‘The Australian Coordinated Care Trials:  Methodological Issues in Trial Design and Evaluation’, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra
• Richards B, Dugdale P, Pearce R & Pers P (1999) Developing Roles for General Practitioners in ‘The Australian Coordinated Care Trials:  Methodological Issues in Trial Design and Evaluation’, Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra
• Shannon C & Richards BH (1999) The Hidden Agenda:  Culture of the Medical Profession, University of Western Australia, Perth
• McLean R, Richards BH & Wardman JI (2007) The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice andeducation: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?, Med J Aust; 187 (3): 174-177

CV

• CV Brian Richards