Quote Of The Year

Timeless Quotes - Sadly The Late Paul Shetler - "Its not Your Health Record it's a Government Record Of Your Health Information"

or

H. L. Mencken - "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Wednesday, March 04, 2020

This Is Really Becoming Just Quite Absurd I Believe. Talk About Flogging A Dead Horse.

This week we have seen the promotional activities of the ADHA functionaries rise to just absurd levels.
A few examples.
Here:

Register for the My Health Record Webinar

Wednesday 4 March 6pm -7pm AEDT

26 February 2020

Understanding how to register and upload to My Health Record can be challenging. Join Professor Steven Boyages as he interviews Carey Doolan from the Australian Digital Health Agency to provide practical advice to help you register and upload to My Health Record. To register for this webinar on 4th March 2020, 6-7pm AEDT go to here.
For information about how the National Allergy Strategy is working with the Australian Digital Health Agency to improve the quality of patient allergy information in My Health Record go to NAS - Digital Health Agency
Here is the link:
Maybe the ADHA should fix the #myHealthRecord so its use is a little less challenging (and more useful and current) don’t you think?
And here:

My Health Record Workshop (Good Things Foundation program supported by the ADHA).

Free

Description

This 90 minute Workshop will introduce participants to the ‘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 learners an overview of the platform, along with the opportunity to access and use My Health Record.
Learning objectives: To increase learners’ knowledge and confidence in using My Health Record and be able to make an informed decision about whether it’s something they would like to access for themselves.
Date: Monday, 23rd March 2020
Time: 1.30pm – 3.30pm
Location: Rosanna Fire Station Community House
Contact: E: office@rfsch.org.au; T: 9458 1935 W: www.rfsch.org.au
Gold Coin Donation

Be Connected is an Australia wide initiative empowering all Australians to thrive in a digital world. The program has online learning resources as well as a Network of community partners who offer support so you can develop your digital skills & confidence.
More here:
If you want to go here is the address:
232 Lower Plenty Rd
Rosanna, VIC 3084
Good luck finding such an obscure little location – at least it is only 12 Km from Melbourne!
Of course, we also have the usual static propaganda.
Here is an example:
Begin Extract. -----

My Health Record

An initiative of the federal government, My Health Record is a secure online summary of an individual’s health information and is available to all Australians. Health care professionals authorised by their health care organisation can access My Health Record to view and add patient health information.

Updated Health Records

Through the My Health Record system, authorised health care professionals can access timely information about their patients such as shared health summaries, discharge summaries, prescription and dispense records, pathology reports and diagnostic imaging reports. This allows health care professionals to have the most up-to-date information on their patients which is important, especially in an emergency situation.
As a patient, community members can control what goes into their My Health Record and who is allowed to access this information. Individuals can choose to share their health information with their doctors, hospitals and other health care professionals.

Registering or deleting your My Health Record

A My Health Record was created for every Australian who wanted one after 31 January 2019 following the federal government’s ‘opt-out’ period. Individuals can permanently delete their record at any time. Visit the My Health Record Frequently Asked Questions page for details on how to permanently delete your My Health Record.
If you didn’t have a My Health Record created, or deleted it and have changed your mind, you can register for a My Health Record via your MyGov account. Find out more information on how to register on the Department of Health’s website.

More Information

The Australian Digital Heath Agency has a large range of resources available for health care professionals and individuals regarding My Health Record, to help answer any questions, navigate the system and get a better understanding of what a My Health Record is and how it can be beneficial. We have provided some links below to popular resources:
What is a My Health Record?
What’s in a My Health Record?
How to use My Health Record?
Benefits of a My Health Record
Control access to your record
Frequently Asked Questions
Health care professionals can access the dedicated My Health Record webpage for more information including registering their organisation, how to view and upload clinical information and how to access training.
----- End Extract
Here is the link:
Here we see the usual spin – value in an emergency etc. – which exaggerates the value a good deal given how few records actually have much in them and what is there is an aged document pile mostly.
See here for a recent article on contents and use:
So we have spin, funny, out of the way events and little use. Hard to know just why they persist wasting our money in these ways but I wish they would stop it!
David.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

My guess is they are in some sort of phase II. Having managed to create millions of empty records for a largely disengaged and disinterested populace they now move to ‘education and awareness’. The aim here would be to get people to use the system. I am not convinced this will work. The approach seems to be akin to a change management project in a corporate where a new ERP has been introduced.

Still top marks for not trying

Nice but Dim said...

An initiative of the federal government, My Health Record is a secure online summary of an individual’s health information and is available to all Australians. Health care professionals authorised by their health care organisation can access My Health Record to view and add patient health information

This would be the same Federal Government that s about to throw out the Cloud Providers Certification Program and other essential data security safeguards and leave it up to individual departments and Agencies. Won’t be safe and secure for long. Seems rather than ups kill and conform they go for the ‘she’ll be right’ approach.

Anonymous said...

You would be referring to this little snippet. I am not sure this is a good idea or has been well thought through. Enough fib to the NAA regarding information and records management, hard to image the Federal Agencies will be honest in self regulating

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/asd-warned-cloud-accreditation-u-turn-jeopardises-security-adoption-538913