This Is A Really Bizarre Academic Paper on The #myHealthRecord. What Is Going On That Rubbish Like This Gets Published?

This appeared during last week.

Improving accessibility of the Australian My Health Records while preserving privacy and security of the system

·         Pasupathy Vimalachandran,

·         Hong Liu,

·         Yongzheng Lin,

·         Ke Ji,

·         Hua Wang &

·         Yanchun Zhang 

Health Information Science and Systems volume 8, Article number: 31 (2020)

Abstract

Australian My Health Record (MyHR) is a significant development in empowering patients, allowing them to access their summarised health information themselves and to share the information with all health care providers involved in their care. Consequently, the MyHR system must enable efficient availability of meaningful, accurate, and complete data to assist an improved clinical administration of a patient. However, while enabling this, protecting data privacy and ensuring security in the MyHR system has become a major concern because of its consequences in promoting high standards of patient care. In this paper, we review and address the impact of data security and privacy on the use of the MyHR system and its associated issues. We determine and analyse where privacy becomes an issue of using the MyHR system. Finally, we also present an appropriate method to protect the security and privacy of the MyHR system in Australia.

Here is the link:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13755-020-00126-4

Tell me – does the myHR  “enable efficient availability of meaningful, accurate, and complete data to assist an improved clinical administration of a patient.” Not that anyone has noticed!

Who has seen a consequence of the myHR as “promoting high standards of patient care.” Even if it is never used…

It is also a pretty big claim that the authors “present an appropriate method to protect the security and privacy of the MyHR system in Australia.” – suggesting it does not do that now!

I also do wonder about the Chinese interest in a failed Australian EHR project?

It is also pretty surprising to see where the authors are based.

Author information

Affiliations

1.       Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

Pasupathy Vimalachandran, Hua Wang & Yanchun Zhang

2.       School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250014, China

Hong Liu & Yongzheng Lin

3.       School of Information Science and Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, China

Ke Ji

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Hong Liu.

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What on earth does the “Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities” in Melbourne know about the myHR you ask? Turns out that from 2018 research of the Centre of Applied Informatics is located within the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities. Follow the links to see what they do!

Note: Jinan is a city of 6.8 million in Eastern China far away from the coast etc.

It is possibly worth noting that Prof. Yanchun Zhang of Victoria University is the Editor in Chief of Health Information Science and Systems the Journal where this was published.

I reckon this article is just a CV bloater of no real value and I fail to follow just what it adds.

What do others think?

David.