This appeared last week:
My Health Record document views up as records near 23 million
Record oversight agency says the modernisation of national health infrastructure will only further the uptake.
By Asha Barbaschow | November 24, 2020 -- 01:21 GMT (12:21 AEDT) | Topic: Innovation
The oversight body for Australia's My Health Record is expecting the modernisation of the country's health infrastructure will be a further "catalyst" for accelerating the use of the online medical file.
Speaking with media on Tuesday, Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) acting national health chief information officer Kerri Burden said the number of documents viewed within My Health Record has this year increased.
"In 2020, the number of documents viewed each week at public hospitals has increased to more than 100,000," she said. "This is showing that when information is being uploaded into the My Health Record system that the information is then being viewed.
"My Health Record use is growing, modernisation of our national infrastructure will be a further catalyst for accelerating this growth."
Burden said 96% of public hospitals are connected to the record, with 94% of those using it.
"This means that healthcare providers are accessing this information when they need it and its often information that the patient doesn't need to have with them at the time," she added.
As of October 2020, there were 22.85 million My Health Records, an increase of 300,000 since July 2019.
19.9 million of those records have information in them and there is a total of 2.38 billion documents uploaded to My Health Record, this comprises over 95 million clinical documents, 175 million medicine documents, 2.1 billion Medicare documents, and 335,000 documents labelled as "consumer".
Public hospitals uploaded 427,000 items that were viewed by others in the sector; 415,000 items that were uploaded by "others" were viewed by hospital staff.
The ADHA is tasked with increasing the pace of digital adoption, which Burden said is really around finding key barriers for consumers and healthcare providers.
The agency has kicked off a program in an attempt to modernise the national digital health infrastructure. According to the agency, the program aims to better connect Australia's healthcare system and deliver improvements in the quality and efficiency of healthcare.
More here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-health-record-document-views-up-as-records-near-23-million/
Amazingly this article was stolen in this link:
https://texasnewstoday.com/my-health-record-document-appears-as-nearly-23-million-records/51982/
and was totally bastardised here to extreme comical effect:
I look forward to someone explaining to me how a 10 year upgrade program of an already failed system is suddenly going to raise enthusiasm for the #myHealthRecord.
To remind anyone who is not clear, modernisation of the platform is not going to result in the system being a current, complete, properly clinically curated and usefully accessible patient record.
The thing does not need to be re-platformed it needs to be rethought and re-architected / designed.
Otherwise it is good money after bad!
David.
Like a certain malignant narcissist, the ADHA is living in a make believe reality all their own. The real test of the My Health Record is the reduction in costs of healthcare, as seen by both individuals and healthcare providers. What ADHA is busy reporting are costs, not outcomes.
ReplyDeleteI think they omitted that the past year has seen a further 72.6% decrease in people at ADHA you have a clue, with a further increase of 87% of people in the wrong job. This builds on previous years that saw a steady decline in qualified infer visuals in key clinical and technical leadership roles.
ReplyDeleteFriday will be another insult to add to the trifle. Friday the ‘interviews’ for the CTO role are to take place. Nothing odd about a role of such prestige and national importance being run through a single agency and not even their executive branch being held on a Friday?
ReplyDeleteYou will see the ‘acting’ roles become non acting roles
@ADHA staffer, can’t say I am surprised. I put in an application and have not even had a reply from Hudsons to say I was or was not successful. All a bit underwhelming.
ReplyDeleteHad the same lack of response. The recruitment company seemed poorly briefed. Probably for the best, a common law short term engagement.
ReplyDeleteWhy even apply? ADHA is clearly somewhere you get sent to when no other department has a need for you.
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