Here are the results of the poll.
How Well Do You Believe The Australian Government(s) Are Managing The Current CORVID-19 Crisis?
Superbly 0% (0)OK 19% (21)
Neutral 24% (26)
Not All That Well 45% (49)
Very Badly 13% (14)
I Have No Idea 0% (0)
Total votes: 110
Overall the bias seems to be towards feeling that some improvement on the part of the Government is needed.
Any insights on the poll welcome as a comment, as usual.
A great turnout of votes.
It must also have been a very easy question as only 0/110 readers were not sure how to respond.
Again, many, many thanks to all those that voted!
David.
11 comments:
With MyGov down access to My Health Record is not possible for this consumer. I was hoping to investigate who has accessed my record. This weeks poll asks if the GovHR would be of any use - can’t see how it could be deployed or for what purpose, even those who see it as some population surveillance tool must be somewhat disappointed.
LinkedIn -
While the evidence is not certain yet that once infected you have immunity to #COVID19, for the sake of argument let's say you do. Thinking back to my time at the #Digitalhealth Agency #ADHA and how long it took from concept, to consultation and agreement with industry/partners, to requirements, to release to then CIS vendors implementing those changes, I'd say we need to start talking NOW about putting in a #COVID flag within a patients #MHR so that it can provide information on status/testing etc. This is going to be around for sometime, and perhaps if those who have had it can have a flag so that they could offer to work in frontline areas or be able to travel more freely to help get economy going again? or be ready to put in when a vaccine becomes available? Be REALLY great if the #FHIR #APIs /Mobile gateway was (finally) opened up to allow for developers to be able to (with a patients permission of course) access this info to help build some great new tools/services. I'm sure far smarter and knowledgeable people like Kate Ebrill Garth McDonald Lars Becker might have some ideas on this? maybe you guys are already onto it? #heretohelp
Another technologist trying to justify their pet solution.
If someone wants to prove to a prospective employer that they had recovered from #COVID all they need do is show the test results they were given. Using MyHR as a communications tool is plain silly. The results should go straight from the tester to the person. Expecting them to keep logging on to MyHR to see if their results have been posted is not a good idea.
Interesting thought and could be useful in a trusted and used system, wonder what unintended consequences this could have. Maybe link it to a number tattooed on your arm or maybe a badge on your clothing.
Saw that on LinkedIn, not worth discussing or giving any airplay. I think as we see real collaboration and innovating thinking some are feeling small. It has been placed in the appropriate backlog.
In case people's attension is elsewhere at the moment, from the Australian DisHonest Agency (ADHA)
The Australian Digital Health Agency has reopened its mobile gateway to developers looking to connect to the My Health Record through mobile apps.
The agency temporarily closed down the gateway to new entrants in 2018 while it undertook a privacy and security review, allowing only four apps to remain connected. They are Telstra Health's HealthNow, Chamonix's Healthi, and HealthEngine. The fourth app, Tyde, is no longer in business. Consumers can also access their record through myGov.
Of coarse they would, sadly this should not raise suspicion but when you lose all credibility you can never win.
Two thing come to mind on this ADHA ( love the DisHonest Agency).
1. What has been resolved that mitigates the driver behind closing the portal in the first place? Or is it just a case of - “the peasants are distracted and have probably forgotten by now”
2. What is the certainty for business that this won’t simply be shit down again? As an example - The fourth app, Tyde, is no longer in business. why is that ???
Re the mobile gateway:
This is what the ADHA says:
"More My Health Record apps to help Australians manage their health"
https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/news-and-media/media-releases/more-my-health-record-apps-help-australians-manage-their-health
This bit is interesting
"In reopening the Mobile Gateway, the Agency has added a range of new requirements to connecting apps. This includes clauses in the legal agreement signed by app operators to more explicitly prohibit them from making a copy of system data and using data for any other secondary purpose."
If I am reading this correctly, all an app can do is connect to myhr and act as a user interface. The app cannot store any of the data or use it. All it is doing is playing the role of a browser.
I suspect the only real benefit is that the user doesn't have to go through the dreaded mygov portal.
Maybe they realise if they allow a one time grab people will simply then cancel the MyHR and continue building on the data in their app. Anyway the data should be stored on the users local device and then backed up to whatever storage/backup solution that the citizen has. My ‘virtual’ health record should simply be data harvested with the GP CIS hopefully being the master record of stuff
The question is - will they pay (cash and political favour) vendors to develop capabilities required or will it need to demonstrate value? (I.e. will the cost of development for vendors create cash able value for the vendors and value to their customers).
It has been nearly a decade, it should be a familiar source system by now, and sadly the conditions are probably optimal for consumer health apps. I don’t think now is a time for Governments to be splashing cash around on pet projects.
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