Australia HIC Conference
My Health Record Update
Oct 15, 2019• 0By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH A few weeks ago, WTF Health took the show on the road to Australia’s digital health conference, HIC 2019. We captured more than 30 interviews (!) from the conference, which is run by the Health Informatics Society of Australia (hence the HISA Studio branding) and I had the opportunity to chat with most of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s leadership, many administrators from the country’s largest health systems, and a number of health informaticians, clinicians, and patients. I’ll be spotlighting a few of my favorites here in a four-part series to give you a flavor of what’s happening in health innovation ‘Down Under.’ For much more, check out all the videos on the playlist here.
What trip Down Under would be complete without an update on the Australian government’s My Health Record program? The “opt out” period is over and now 22M Aussies (90% of the population) have electronic records managed by the gov’t. Bottom line: They’ve built it, no one’s really opted out, but no one’s really come yet either…especially on the provider side to populate the record with info.
The interview that is worth watching is with Elizabeth Deveny who is Chair of the Australian Digital Health Agency.
Here is a link direct to the video.
https://youtu.be/2bYaAoq9Pb4
For a whole heap of others from the HISA Conference here is a play list:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMGuC2pxrQb0QTniDZU_PybV3qseDONvx
I will leave it to the viewer to assess what they see but I have to say the priorities revealed in the 16 minute interview are interesting to say the least.
Enjoy.
David.
They don't know what people want from My Health Record and they don't know how it's going to be funded?
ReplyDeleteThey expect consumers to drive the change?
WTF says it all.
The interview should absolutely not be missed. The absolute lack of insight and lack of understanding mixed with inexplicable hubris and muddled thinking is incredible beyond belief.
ReplyDeleteThe Trouble with Australia's My Health Record... | Tom Skotnicki, Landed Publishing
ReplyDeleteThere are big gaps between the MyHR fantasies and reality.
@9:44am
ReplyDeleteIt's worth reading the blurb, even if the phrase "new centralized digital health record system" is a total exaggeration:
One Australian who's not exactly buying the hype around the My Health Record program, the country's new centralized digital health record system, is Tom Skotnicki.
A former member of Australia's National E-Health Transition Authority (the precursor org to today's Australian Digital Health Agency) and a liver transplant patient living with Type 2 Diabetes and several other serious medical conditions, Tom shares his personal story as a way to illustrate some of the challenges digital health still faces within the Australian health system. (For example, despite having more than 90 pathology tests in the last two years, not a single pathology report is on his My Health Record...)
Tom weighs in with great candor about how useful he thinks the record will be as a clinical tool and talks about how physician participation might improve if data upload was required for reimbursement.
In the end, is he optimistic about that the centralized record system will live up to its high potential? Watch now and find out!
So long as you’re white she’ll be right. There is an interesting article in Wired:
ReplyDeleteA Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patients
A study shows the risks of making decisions using data that reflects inequities in American society.
Wonder if the CHF will serve all our interests and get measure in place to prevent Government systems being bias or adopting misuse cases.