After the release of the ANAO Audit on The My Health Record yesterday we had a release from the ADHA.
From the ADHA we got.
Media Release: The Australian National Audit Office Findings On The Implementation Of My Health Record Welcomed
The Australian Digital Health Agency (Agency) welcomes the findings in the report and agrees with all recommendations made by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).
The ANAO’s conclusion that the implementation of the My Health Record was largely effective, and that planning, governance and communication was appropriate will provide the community with an important perspective on the competence of the public sector to implement a system of this scale and nature.
CEO Tim Kelsey said “The Agency supports the sharing of learnings as key messages to other government entities. We hope that our experience implementing this major program will contribute to the capability of the public service to deliver major technological and change programs into the future.”
The Agency will continue to work with Commonwealth entities, State and Territory Governments, healthcare providers and professionals, the technology industry and consumer groups to implement the recommendations.
The Agency acknowledges that the My Health Record system operates within an environment of controls such as professional standards, national and State/Territory privacy laws, and risk systems that reduce exposure to adverse events. The Agency will have regard to this complex environment when working with stakeholders to raise standards in health information management, with a view to lift the capability of the health sector to continue to meet increasing community expectations on privacy and the security of health information.
“The Agency will continue to support the health and wellbeing of the Australian community through improved access to digital services” said Mr Kelsey.
Details of the report can be found here.
KEY INFORMATION
- More than 22.6 million Australians have a record.
- Over 1.5 billion documents have already been uploaded.
- The Australian Digital Health Agency is working with healthcare provider organisations across the country to connect healthcare professionals to the My Health Record system and improve the information available to consumers who have a My Health Record.
- The more information that is available in a patient’s My Health Record, the more information healthcare providers have available to make complex decisions about a patient’s health and treatment options.
ENDS
Here is the link:
The ADHA seems to think the recommendations were pats on the back rather then the exposure of significant failures in cyber security, evaluation and privacy on their part and recommendations for significant work to improve things!
As if to double the point the release is also found linked here:
Even worse they claimed they were so good at the opt-out process others should learn from them, and that they were genius implementers of major change.
The arrogance and spin is truly breathtaking - as is the continued reference to the number of records held in the ageing data-base of progressively - by the day - obsolete data!
David.
3 comments:
Apart from a few mentions (including Sky News
https://news.google.com/articles/CCAiCzhPR2l1OXNtcnhZmAEB?hl=en-AU&gl=AU&ceid=AU%3Aen)
the media has ignored the whole thing.
There's been the expected outrage on twitter from myself and a few others.
There's been the odd reddit posting with all of 60 (mostly negative) comments
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/e1bxc6/my_health_record_failed_to_manage_cybersecurity/
An observation is that Australians just don't give a hoot about My Health Record, even if it is a threat to their privacy.
The ADHA may feel satisfied that they have survived the ANAO review, which IMHO was conducted by people so out of their depth when it comes to health data, security and privacy they couldn't detect the bullshit they were being fed. They assumed that what is on the myhealthrecord.gov.au site was a true representation of reality - which it often isn't.
Potentially the lack of interest should be a worry for the government. The original design, which wasn't implemented - the ANAO missed that, would have joined up existing health data. That would have automatically created a virtual health record with no involvement of either GPs or patients.
Now patients are critically needed to help upload data into the system, manage privacy risks, monitor quality and correctness (nobody else will). If patients are not engaged then the data will not flow.
The reality is that most GPs appear to mistrust the thing and will only use it if they get paid and that most patients have not been convinced of its value to them. If that doesn't worry ADHA, then it should.
Yes it is an art form. Your point about volumes of records with little or no currency is valid. Perhaps we could rebrand the system to MyROTHR, mostly your redundant obsolete trivial health recordings.
This really does look like the construction of ADHA back to Canberra and the system handed over to DHS.
You know something is rubbish when the Chinese don't want to buy it, and the North Korea won't even use it as an online training module for cyber units.
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