Mission:

To raise the quality of global health reform discourse and debate, by improving the health system literacy of health professionals and consumers. We will achieve this by offering affordable and accessible, high-quality medical administration and health system education and training.

Our Story:

The journey of AIMAC began under the wing of Synapse Medical, an Australian MedTech company providing digital solutions to medical administration headaches. Synapse’s founder and CEO, Dr Margaret Faux, has worked in health systems for 40 years. She’s a nurse-turned-lawyer specialised in Medicare and health insurance law, has a PhD on medical billing compliance, and is endlessly curious about how the world pays for health. Despairing of the low levels of genuine understanding of how health financing systems work, she established AIMAC, to challenge learners to think critically, ask insightful questions, confront conventional ways of thinking, and explore the boundaries of current health system knowledge.

In Australia, more than 40 years after our Universal Health Coverage system was first introduced, we still hear Australians saying we should have a health system like the NHS, or that fee-for-service is the cause of all our problems and value-based care will fix it. We can’t have an NHS styled health system, and VBC won’t solve all our problems. There are so many well-meaning health system enthusiasts who are stuck in a binary time warp. Health system nirvana does not exist, and the ways we pay for and deliver health are profoundly complex, deeply nuanced, and continually evolving. That’s why it’s such an exciting area to work in.