Media release - Update to the My Health Record statistics
16 December 2019: The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) today published updated statistics showing more detailed activity on My Health Record.Agency Chief Medical Adviser, Professor Meredith Makeham, says, “While we have published general participation statistics in the past, this update has been tailored for consumers following research which showed that more insight and relevance was needed about the statistics. The update provides a more granular view of how My Health Record is being used and how this is changing over time.”
The Agency’s My Health Record statistics will be published on the My Health Record website regularly to provide more transparency around how the system is being used by consumers and healthcare providers.
Key Facts
- Pharmacies are currently the biggest contributors to the system, uploading over 4 million documents every month with GPs also adding between 2 and 3 million documents every month.
- There has been a 140% growth of healthcare providers sharing and collaborating on patient information, with both viewing and uploading information close to equal.
- GPs are the highest users of the system, accessing documents uploaded by other GPs and healthcare providers to inform their clinical decision-making.
- The number of My Health Records containing Medicare, clinical or medicine documents has more than doubled since January (5.39 million), now more than 12.5 million have documents in them - typically following an interaction with a healthcare provider.
- Over 1.6 billion documents have been uploaded to My Health Records, including over 40 million clinical documents and 90 million medicine documents. More than 679 million of these have been uploaded in the last nine months alone.
- Around 90% of public hospital beds, general practices and pharmacies are now registered to use My Health Record, with around 70 per cent uploading or viewing documents.
- There are also over 6 million records with immunisation information and more than 1.2 million records with organ donor register information.
Here is the link:
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/news-and-events/news/media-release-update-to-the-my-health-record-statistics
Here is the link to look at closely and monitor as each month passes:
https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/statistics
The key disclosure is that the system has been looked up 200,000 times in 9 months.
That is 750 or so look-ups per day by the 45,000 or so GPs - so 1 in 40 GPs or so per day use the #myHR once per day on average.
Put another way with 750 lookups per day there are 44,000 GPs just ignoring the #myHR each day!
Or, to get it clearly each GP, statistically, looked up 4 records over 9 months. 1 every 2 months! A huge white elephant I reckon!
Here is the graphic from the link.
GP sharing in the last 9 months
Good of them to stop being so secretive.....
David.
Any idea how many faxes where axed?
ReplyDeleteNotice what is missing?
ReplyDeleteThe number of Shared Health Summaries uploaded by GPs. The number is obfuscated by including it in "documents uploaded by GPs"
Their message has been subtly changed from "myhr is a summary of your health information" to "When you have a My Health Record your health information can be viewed securely online from anywhere, at any time - even if you move or travel interstate."
The first claim implies that "all your health information" (including history) is on-line - which is a blatant lie -, the second just says "your health information" which is closer to the truth but is misleading.
All it takes now to initiate a myhr is for a healthcare provider to access a record. That automatically triggers the upload of historic MBS/PBS data and any new data from then on.
The vast majority of data in myhr is government data - 1.6b over the lifetime of the system. The next most common is pharmacy data.
One interesting stat is that 94% of public hospital beds are registered. You can probably work out what they are trying to claim, but it's sloppy.
IMHO, it's all very deceptive. The real measures should be
1. How many people can see their full medical history that is stored in existing systems (the "reduce data fragmentation" objective so clearly stated in the ANAO review)?
2. How has medical care been improved?
3. How much of the $14.6b projected savings have been achieved?
A last question: Will the Department of Heath continue to publish their PHN statistics?
https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/PHN-Digital_Health
last updated May 2019. Or are they also in on the deception?
CEO Tim is laughing. He's out of there. His trademark smirk persists. He has suckered you all for 3 well-paid years years and now it's no longer his problem; it's all yours!
ReplyDeleteThat’s EX-ceo Tim. Tim is now simply in data analytics. What he is associated with in the world of big data is what making kids Christmas toys is in the world of robotics.
ReplyDeleteThey would be better marketed for what they are, back door conduits, lobbyist, middle people..... best forgotten and look to a future