Mar. 26 2020
Introduction to My Health Record
Event Information
Description
This session will introduce you to My Health Record. My Health Record is an online platform allowing healthcare professionals to share information with each other as well as the patient, to help give a clearer and more complete picture of a person’s health to aid in their treatment. This session will give you an overview of the platform, along with the opportunity to access and use My Health Record.You will need an active email address and a MyGov account.
You can use one of our computers or bring your own device.
Tea Tree Gully library has received a grant to deliver this course and is required to capture attendees details as part of this funding.
Date and Time
Thu., 26 March 20202:30 pm – 3:30 pm ACDT
Here is the link.
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/introduction-to-my-health-record-tickets-93451647393
So the Tea Tree Gully Library is a paid spruiker of the #myHealthRecord.
Words fail me! What a farce!
David.
Appears the ADHA now believes that as all Australians not wishing to or unable to opt out or have an idea they have a record, now have a record (an empty record is still a digital folder). To now make the system useful they must start an educational program so people can learn how to use this stupid app.
ReplyDelete1. The system must be rubbish if a consumer cannot pick it up in five minutes
2. Would indicate UX is a failure after several years
3. They believe 10 people turning up at some community hall for free biscuits and a cups tea is showing progress
How embarrassing
It's a ZOMBIE.
DeleteLet's assume the government is really interested in improving the health of Australians (rather than just building a surveillance system)
ReplyDeleteWill registering every Australian for a summary health record improve the health of most Australians? There is no evidence or justification for such a claim.
What might?
Read this:
Why healthcare’s data quality conundrum will stifle SDOH initiatives
https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/opinion/why-healthcares-data-quality-conundrum-will-stifle-sdoh-initiatives
"Addressing social determinants — such as homelessness, food insecurity, addiction and poverty — likely has a tremendous impact on population health.
In fact, social programs such as housing assistance, food pantries and behavioral health offerings can have a much greater impact than clinical care and medical treatments."
But SDOH are much harder to address than throwing money at a quick technology fix.
And when that quick fix is neither quick, nor a fix, you wonder if the government is capable of delivering anything worthwhile.
It also shows how desperate some libraries are.
ReplyDeleteThis would definitely be seen by the library as 1. Easy revenue, and 2. A way to attract new patrons.
Get f**king-used to it
ReplyDeleteHonest Government Ad | After the fires
From the Department for Thoughts and Prayers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BmbvTvFQ3g
The library event is probably quite a good idea. People will discover exactly what it can't do and what they have to do to manage it if they want to do the very little it can do.
ReplyDeleteThey may also learn how to delete it. The more light shone on this thing the better.
Aren't unintended consequences a wonderful thing?
I do hope they provide everyone with an update on this little outstanding and still not addressed the issue:
ReplyDeleteA clinical document must be digitally signed before it can be uploaded to the My Health Record system. Some clinical information systems cannot reliably create a digital signature and without that they cannot attempt to upload the clinical document to the My Health Record system, potentially resulting in:1.Missing clinical information in a consumer’s My Health Record resulting in incomplete information.2.Changes to documents in My Health Record including amendments not uploading resulting in out-of-date or incorrect clinical information.3.Unexplained cases of missing information or incorrect information in a My Health Record where a healthcare provider believed they had fulfilled the correct upload workflow.4.Healthcare providers failing to obtain their Practice Incentive Payment as Shared Health Summaries they thought they created are not sent to the My Health Record system.
No wonder all those senior folk jumped ship last year.
ReplyDeletewell maybe there will be some scones or lamingtons?
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the 'gladdies' Barry.
DeleteDid you know that the ABS and Treasury are considering including a question on health in the next census?
ReplyDeleteThe question will be something like:
Has a doctor ever diagnosed you with one of the following conditions:
There will be a list of about 10.
The reason is so that government planners can understand the future needs for health care facilities in different places around Australia. This is what the census is actually for - understanding population characteristics and allocation of resources.
The ABS has a good record when it comes to the protection of privacy and there is no suggestion that the data will be misused.
When it was put to the ABS that this information might also be available from myhr, they (metaphorically) fell about laughing.
Their view was that myhr is empty of such data, will always be empty and is of no help whatsoever when it comes to "proper" health care research.
From what I can tell, nobody outside of Health thinks myhr is of any use at all.
DHS is obviously dubious, hence the initiative to gather data straight from GP systems via PHNs - and they are prepared to pay for it under PIP.
And when the police want access to MBS/PBS data (not for health reasons, but for data on people's activity and location) all they have to do is ask DHS - no warrant, much more data.
One day Health may take the advice of Milton Friedman:
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results"
ADHA can only hide behind intentions for so long. Maybe that time has passed.
Interesting seeing they have the National Health Surveys sampling households using Census data. They have about 76% response rate. They can check sample bias based on demographics but it's hard to get good comparison statistics of chronic disease prevalence estimates since the BEACH program lost funding.
ReplyDeleteThey don't use census data, they conduct surveys.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4364.0.55.001~2017-18~Main%20Features~About%20the%20National%20Health%20Survey~5
ABOUT THE NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEY
The 2017-18 National Health Survey is the most recent in a series of Australia-wide health surveys conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The survey was designed to collect a range of information about the health of Australians, including:
* prevalence of long-term health conditions;
* health risk factors such as smoking, overweight and obesity, alcohol consumption and physical activity; and
* demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.
The survey was conducted in all states and territories and across urban, rural and remote areas of Australia (excluding very remote areas) from July 2017 to June 2018. The survey included around 21,000 people in over 16,000 private dwellings.
Previous surveys were conducted in 1989-90, 1995, 2001, 2004-05, 2007-08, 2011-12 and 2014-15. Health surveys conducted by the ABS in 1977-78 and 1983, while not part of the National Health Survey series, collected similar information.
This publication contains key results from the 2017-18 survey, including long-term health conditions, health risk factors and mental health and well-being. Information is presented for Australia and the states and territories.
This how they do it:
https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4364.0.55.001Explanatory%20Notes12017-18?OpenDocument
DATA COLLECTION
10 Trained ABS interviewers conducted personal interviews with selected residents in sampled dwellings. One adult (aged 18 years and over) in each dwelling was selected and interviewed about their own health characteristics as well as information about the household (for example, income of other household members). An adult, nominated by the household, was interviewed about one child in the household. Some children aged 15-17 years may have been personally interviewed with parental consent
AFAIK, if you are selected, it is mandatory.
It is not clear if the proposed census question will be mandatory, but it's hard to distinguish between "None" and "I refuse to answer this question"