It Seems The Commission Watching The Quality And Safety Of The myHealthRecord Has Gone To Sleep!

From the page covering that work:

My Health Record clinical safety program

The My Health Record clinical safety program aims to improve quality, safety and efficiency in the Australian healthcare system through the My Health Record system. Consumers can control the content of, and access to, their healthcare record, and share their health information with their clinicians.

History of the My Health Record system

The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) was established on 1 July 2016 and is the My Health Record System Operator.

The Agency appointed the Commission to undertake a clinical safety program for the My Health Record system and national digital health infrastructure for 2016–18. This included:

• Conducting clinical safety reviews on the My Health Record system and national digital health infrastructure
• Operating a 24/7 My Health Record system Clinical Incident Management Unit from May 2016 to June 2017
• Providing clinical safety expertise to the Agency
• Analysing clinical incidents as requested by the Agency
• Working with the Agency to drive safe and effective use of national digital health infrastructure into the future.

Resources: Clinical safety reviews of the My Health Record system

Between 2012 and 2018, the Commission completed 12 My Health Record clinical safety reviews. These include:

• First PCEHR (My Health Record system) Clinical Safety Review  A review of the PCEHR clinical incident management process, and an update on progress made on previous recommendations from a review of the National eHealth Transition Authority’s (NEHTA) clinical safety management
• Second PCEHR (My Health Record system) Clinical Safety Review  An examination of the PCEHR clinical incident management and investigation processes, and progress made against the recommendations from the First PCEHR clinical safety review
• Third PCEHR (My Health Record system) Clinical Safety Review A review of de-identified PCEHR records; the use of the National Prescription and Dispense Repository; and incident review and reporting
• Fourth PCEHR (My Health Record system) Clinical Safety Review A review of electronic discharge summaries and a review of the status of recommendations from the previous three clinical safety reviews
• Fifth Clinical Safety Review of the My Health Record system A review of the use of Shared Health Summaries, Medicare Benefits Schedule, Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, and the application of clinical safety design principles to Release 5
• Sixth Clinical Safety Review of the My Health Record System Review of the My Health Record system identity management processes, focusing on Individual Health Identifiers and an end-to-end review of Event Summaries
• Seventh (7.1 ED workflows) Clinical Safety Review of the My Health Record System A review of the impact and safety of the use of the My Health Record system in emergency departments
• Seventh (7.2 Medicines view) Clinical Safety Review of the My Health Record System A review of the presentation to healthcare providers of the My Health Record system ‘medications views’
• Seventh (7.3 Downtime) Clinical Safety Review of the My Health Record System A review of the My Health Record system downtime management best practices for clinical safety in health IT systems
• Ninth Clinical Safety Review of the My Health Record System A review of the adoption and utilisation of SNOMED CT-AU and AMT: Safe use of medicines – allergies and adverse drug reactions
• Tenth Clinical Safety Review of the My Health Record System A review of the presentation of clinical documents from the My Health Record system in the National Provider Portal and clinical information systems.

Here is the link:

https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/e-health-safety/my-health-record-clinical-safety-program

The latest report (No 10) is dated February 2018.

It seems the ADHA and the Commission have just lost interest or is there another explanation?

In passing it seems most of their work was just ignored as far as I can tell. 

What on earth is going on do you reckon. Surely quality, safety and efficiency is what this is all meant to be about? 

Did the Commission decide the #myHealthRecord was so perfect that no further review was needed or were they fired? 

Lots of questions and not really any answers.

David.