Exploring Ethical A.I. in Healthcare with Alison Choy Flannigan

Content Warning: Before we begin, we want to let you know that this episode contains discussions about the sensitive topic of sexual abuse. Please prioritise your health and well-being, and if this is an episode you choose to skip, we’ll see you at the next one.

Welcome to episode 30 of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast: Let's Talk About Sex. Our guest is Saul Isbister, President of Touching Base Inc  A volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation, developed out of the need to assist people with disability and sex workers to connect with each other, focusing on access, discrimination, human rights and legal issues and the attitudinal barriers that these two marginalised communities can face.

Since episode 19 when Anjelo Ratnachandra and I touched on the subject of intimacy, sex, and chronic pain, I’ve continued to wonder and be curious about the topic of intimacy and sex, particularly in the personal injury and disability space. Healthcare professionals and rehab people are always going on about holistic care, and a biopsychosocial approach, and, a part of that is acknowledging that sexual and physical intimacy are at the core to the human experience.

In this episode, Saul and Rhea discuss:

• Touching Base Inc, its origin story, vision, mission, and values.
• What are sex work services, and how people can access the service.
• The challenges Touching Base face in achieving their mission.
• What Saul is hopeful and optimistic about.

Touching Base Inc: Website | NDIS & sex work resource | Scarlet Road Documentary

Instagram: Sexuality Education, Counselling, and Consultancy Agency @secca_org | Undressing Disability @undressingdisability

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Welcome to episode 029 of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast: Exploring Ethical A.I. in Healthcare. Our guest is Alison Choy Flannigan, Partner & Co-Lead at Hall & Wilcox law firm. With over 25 years of corporate, commercial and regulatory experience, Alison has specialised in advising clients in the health, aged care, disability, life sciences and community sectors.

In 2023, our host, Rhea Mercado attended the National Health Workforce Summit, in which Alison Choy Flannigan was a panel member in "Addressing Health Workforce challenges in the Digital Age: Deeper dive on Artificial Intelligence."

Regardless of your sentiments towards artificial intelligence technology, it is now an integral part of our daily lives. AI tools and technology are actively employed in the field of medicine and healthcare, revolutionising how professionals evaluate, diagnose, analyse, and ultimately prescribe treatments and medical interventions.

In this episode, Alison and Rhea discuss:

• Key ethical considerations when using AI technology and tools in the healthcare space
• Data handling, personal information, and intellectual property when using AI technology and tools
• Are AI technology and tools medical devices?
• Considerations for healthcare providers and companies when incorporating technologies like AI, devices, and apps into their organisations.

Hall & Wilcox: Linkedin | Hall & Wilcox 

Alison Choy Flannigan | Linkedin | Hall & Wilcox - Alison Choy Flannigan

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Disclaimer: The contents of this program / podcast is made available for entertainment purposes. The views and information expressed by the Guests of the program represents the view and opinions of the Guest and does not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Rhea Mercado® and/or Threesticks Pty Ltd. The information presented in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for any other professional medical advice, legal advice, financial advice, diagnosis, or treatment nor a substitute for guidelines, legislations, frameworks, processes or procedures. We encourage you always seek advice which meets your personal and/or professional circumstances and specific needs.

This episode and any other episode of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast should not be taken as legal advice. We encourage you always seek advice which meets your personal and/or professional circumstances.

Rhea Mercado® and Threesticks Pty Ltd hereby disclaims any and all liability to any part for any direct, indirect, implied, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the content, which is provided as is and without warranties.

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Welcome to Episode #28 of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast. Lawyer Up! with Tyrone Walker, Special Counsel at Hunt & Hunt.

Howdy Folks, Rhea here. In late 2023, I was engaged in a Facebook forum thread. I don’t usually enjoy having nuanced discussions over social media comment sections, so I bowed out after a few exchanges. My entry point into the thread was regarding the use of the word “specialist,” and the discussion went to whether exercise physiologists were subject to The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009, which is a nationally consistent law which was passed in QLD and enacted in states and territories in 2009 and 2010. From here on I’ll just refer to it as The National Law. 

One side of the discussion was that exercise physiologists were not subject to The National Law, I agreed that, yes, Exercise Physiology Services fall outside the scope of regulation of The National Law, rendering certain provisions of the law inapplicable to this profession. Nonetheless, every person as an individual is subject to the laws of the land. As I dove straight down the legal rabbit hole, I found more questions than answers, and that’s when I turned to Tyrone Walker, Special Counsel at Hunt & Hunt in NSW.

Find Tyrone Walker | Linkedin | Hunt & Hunt 

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This episode and any other episode of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast should not be taken as legal advice. We encourage you always seek advice which meets your personal and/or professional circumstances.

Rhea Mercado® and Threesticks Pty Ltd hereby disclaims any and all liability to any part for any direct, indirect, implied, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the content, which is provided as is and without warranties.

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Welcome to Episode #27 of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast. And the winner is…

In this episode of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast, I chat with Sarena Jones, founder of the Allied Health Awards, who is also style guru as it turns out. This episode also features two winners, firstly, Taylia Reedy, winner of the Outstanding Student of the year award at the ARPA NSW Excellence in Workplace Rehabilitation Awards who shares her story about working in a rural and remote setting. Secondly, we have Allied Health Awards Dietician of the year 2023, Catherine Chong who absolutely blows my mind about nutrition and fertility.

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Find our Guests

Sarena Jones | Linkedin  | Instagram @alliedhealthawards | Allied Health Awards 

Taylia Reedy | Linkedin  | Instagram @t_ann06 | ipar 

Catherine Chong | Website | Linkedin | | Instagram | Youtube | Free Meal Plan

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Welcome to The Intelligent Rebellion podcast, hosted by Rhea Mercado, Healthcare Humanist, Speaker and Author. @rheamercs 

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For more than two decades, there has been a tax imposed on the Australian community making access to some healthcare services more expensive than others. This is the Goods & Services Tax or the (GST). When this tax was introduced in Australia in July 2000 it exempted multiple healthcare services like hospitals, aged care, disability,  general health and allied health services from applying GST to their services, however, other medical services including EP, music therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors and diabetes educators were not included in the exemption.

For nearly two decades, the exercise physiology community has advocated for a change in the legislation to ensure fair and equitable access to healthcare services for the Australian Community. For nearly two decades, the community have been meeting with politicians, writing letters, and signing petitions.

Rhea sat down with David Beard, an exercise physiologist, and Dr Felix Meyer a representative of Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA), the professional association for exercise physiologist to discuss why it’s so important for EP services to be GST-free, how GST-free services benefit the Australian community, and what in the world is it taking so long?

Find David Beard | Linkedin | https://www.davidbeard.co | https://www.hfrc.com.au | X / Twitter

Find Dr Felix Meyer | Linkedin | felix.meyer@essa.org.au | https://essa.org.au 

Contact your local member https://www.aph.gov.au/senators_and_members/members

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Welcome to Short Stuff Sessions of the The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast. This Short Stuff is from Episode 010: Fail. Succeed. Grow. Repeat. with Samantha Flinn.

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In this penultimate episode of season 2, Rhea chats with Samantha Flinn. A wife, a mom and an accidental exercise physiologist. Sam shares her adventures through business ownership, motherhood and now as a workplace rehab consultant and how she made an intentional decision regarding what failure she is willing to accept and which ones she will not. Sam shares her epic failures and the tough lessons learnt along the way.

She has some nuggets of wisdom for anyone thinking about doing a career transition from clinical work to rehab consultancy. What makes this chat with Sam so fascinating is the incredible insight she has about her own identity, her personal flaws and strengths and how she has embraced all these parts of herself.

Find Samantha on Linkedin | Eating cupcakes and then running around the track.

...We had some gremlins during recording so we apologise for some of the sound quality towards the end of this episode.

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Acknowledgement of Country: Rhea Mercado and the team who produce the The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast acknowledge the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which the podcast is recorded. We are located on the land of the Dharug people. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and to the Elders past, present and emerging.

Disclaimer: The content of this program / podcast is made available for entertainment purposes. The views and information expressed by the Guests of the program represents the view and opinions of the Guest and does not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Rhea Mercado® and/or Threesticks Pty Ltd. The information presented in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for any other professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment nor a substitute for guidelines, legislations, frameworks, processes or procedures. We encourage you always seek advice which meets your personal and/or professional circumstances.

Rhea Mercado® and Threesticks Pty Ltd hereby disclaims any and all liability to any part for any direct, indirect, implied, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the content, which is provided as is and without warranties.

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Welcome to Short Stuff Sessions of the The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast. This Short Stuff is from Episode 007 Exercise Physiologist Vs Physiotherapist with Nikki Lodge and Matt Hicks of Sydney West Sports Medicine.

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In this episode we chat with Nikki Lodge and Matt Hicks from Sydney West Sports Medicine. Nikki and Matt start with their healthcare origin stories and what they would be doing if not in healthcare. Rhea asks them about their thoughts on a 2020 Australia Physiotherapy Association article in which the author refers to Exercise Physiology is a “trend” and had him seeing “red” when he had “work cover and GPs stating to me that patients need exercise not physiotherapy to rehabilitate.” Read the full article here.

Nikki and Matt are on a mission to create safe spaces for both healthcare practitioners and the community to educate, empower and explore better ways to help people heal and recover. By unintentionally gathering a team of un-like minds with unique interests and skillsets and combining this with the immense resources available in their immediate area they have developed a truly multi-disciplinary approach to rehabilitation and recovery.

During the chat, Matt also muses whether allied healthcare is a consultative process or a rehabilitative process, leading to discussion about the fluidity of rehabilitation and scrapping of the unilateral fee model.

Nikki, Matt and Rhea discuss reasons why healthcare professionals hold onto their patients, wondering if it is about greed, mis-trust, lack of referral pathways, dependency on our patients or a combination of some or all of these factors.

Like all chats in The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast, this discussion is emergent, ignites curiosity, raises more questions than answers, and celebrates the people and businesses which are placing humanity and ethics at the heart of their decisions.

WARNING: This episode contains profanities.

Find Nikki and Matt: Nikki on Linkedin | Matt on Linkedin |Sydney West Sport Medicine | Instagram | Facebook | Nikki dressed as a starfish | Matt wide awake at 3am

The stuff they chat about: Australian Physiotherapy Association Physiotherapy inmotion article | West HQ | One 55 Health & Fitness

Sydney Gymnastics and Aquatic Centre International Centre of Training Excellence

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Acknowledgement of Country: Rhea Mercado and the team who produce the The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast acknowledge the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which the podcast is recorded. We are located on the land of the Dharug people. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and to the Elders past, present and emerging.

Disclaimer: The content of this program / podcast is made available for entertainment purposes. The views and information expressed by the Guests of the program represents the view and opinions of the Guest and does not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Rhea Mercado® and/or Threesticks Pty Ltd. The information presented in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for any other professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment nor a substitute for guidelines, legislations, frameworks, processes or procedures. We encourage you always seek advice which meets your personal and/or professional circumstances.

Rhea Mercado® and Threesticks Pty Ltd hereby disclaims any and all liability to any part for any direct, indirect, implied, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the content, which is provided as is and without warranties.

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Welcome to Short Stuff Sessions of the The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast. This Short Stuff is from episode 002 with John Mellors. 

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This is John Mellors, a husband, a proud father, a tragic Brisbane Bronco’s fan, and a business development manager.

John chats with Rhea about being a verbivore, about his recent move from one organisation to another and his attempts at work/life balance. They wonder why prevention is not a priority in commercial models, the danger of prescriptive workplace wellness programs, cause and correlation and chat about big sounding words like Salutogenesis. John shares his most recent obsession and what only he could consider as being a “fun” activity.

WARNING: This episode contains profanities.

Find John Mellors: Linkedin | The Change Room | at a Brisbane Broncos' game

Stuff they chat about: Dr Adam Fraser and his book The Third Space | Podcast: Absolutely Mental with Ricky Gervais & Sam Harris | Podcast: Ian Wright’s Everyday People | Call John about blood flow restriction training.

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Acknowledgement of Country: Rhea Mercado and the team who produce the The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast acknowledge the traditional owners and ongoing custodians of the land on which the podcast is recorded. We are located on the land of the Dharug people. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and to the Elders past, present and emerging.

Disclaimer: The content of this program / podcast is made available for entertainment purposes. The views and information expressed by the Guests of the program represents the view and opinions of the Guest and does not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Rhea Mercado® and/or Threesticks Pty Ltd. The information presented in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for any other professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment nor a substitute for guidelines, legislations, frameworks, processes or procedures. We encourage you always seek advice which meets your personal and/or professional circumstances.

Rhea Mercado® and Threesticks Pty Ltd hereby disclaims any and all liability to any part for any direct, indirect, implied, punitive, special, incidental or other consequential damages arising directly or indirectly from any use of the content, which is provided as is and without warranties.

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Episode #25: Evolution. A short message from Rhea Mercado, the host of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast. 

A short message from Rhea about the evolution of The Intelligent Rebellion, the release of The Intelligent Rebellion Newsletter v2.0, and the direction and future of the podcast. It's all very exciting and emergent. Join us for the ride.

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Welcome to Episode 24 of The Intelligent Rebellion Podcast. Our guest is Joy Adan, a creative consultant, artist, storyteller, Mother, wife, daughter and sister.

Joy and Rhea chat about growing up in the Filipino culture, what it’s like to challenge our cultural norms, making intentional decisions, and the power of faith and stillness. Joy shares the expectations she felt being from a migrant Filo family, and the how these expectations shaped her life and decisions. That is until, about 10 years ago when Joy had a chat with her Dad, which made her question most everything she believed.

For the past 10 years, Joy has been listening to the whispers in her own heart to seek out what truly is important in her life. She has deliberately invested her time and energy into people, business and causes which make the world a better place, and has leaned into the experiences which make her heart sing.

Through both her volunteer work, and her business, Joy is using her superpowers to encourage people to sit in the stillness, to define their own version of success, and to live a life of creativity and a  life of kindness.

Find Joy Adan: Linkedin | Finding Joy | Joy Adan Writes

Instagram: @findingjoyau | @joyadanwrites | Facebook: @joyadanwrites 

Stuff we talk about: Gidget Foundation | The Hustle Society | @Firstsubs

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Disclaimer: The content of this program / podcast is made available for entertainment purposes. The views and information expressed by the Guests of the program represents the view and opinions of the Guest and does not necessarily represent the view or opinions of Rhea Mercado® and/or Threesticks Pty Ltd. The information presented in this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for any other professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment nor a substitute for guidelines, legislations, frameworks, processes or procedures. We encourage you always seek advice which meets your personal and/or professional circumstances.

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