This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar 'The Data Is Moving to the Clinic: Why Research Genomics Infrastructure Must Plug Into Healthcare'. This webinar took place on 11 August 2026.

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

Host: Rahul Ratwatte, Communications Officer, Australian BioCommons

Training materials:

Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.

Files and materials included in this record:

• Event metadata - Zenodo - Event metadata - Webinar - The Data Is Moving to the Clinic - Why Research Genomics Infrastructure Must Plug Into Healthcare.pdf: Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
• Presentation slides - 2026-08-11 - Research must play with Healthcare - Dr Natalie Thorne.pdf: slides presented during the webinar.

Files and materials shared elsewhere:

• Recording of the presentation on the Australian BioCommons YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/iDO_vkc29No