This appeared last week:
Apply for a ADHA/RACP Digital Health Scholarship
Date published: Feb 19, 2021, 09:30 AM
Summary
In partnership with the Australian Digital Health Agency, we're offering 10 x $4000 scholarships to RACP members using My Health Record and electronic prescribing in the healthcare environment.
Description
As a leading professional medical college in Australasia, the RACP provides accredited specialist training to doctors who have completed their medical degree, and assesses overseas trained physicians who wish to practice in Australia or Aotearoa New Zealand.
We also play a strong advocate role for healthcare policies and practices that promotes the interests of medical professionals, patients and communities (locally and abroad).
Prize
On offer are 10 x $4000 scholarships for eligible Fellows and trainees who are familiar with or practicing the use of My Health Record and electronic prescribing in the healthcare environment.
Successful applicants will be asked to document up to 3 case studies or workflow and integration examples in the use of My Health Record and/or electronic prescribing from their own perspective. A reporting template to aid examples will be provided and should not exceed 500 words in length.
Scholarship applications will be evaluated and award by the ADHA and RACP selection panel.
These scholarships aim to represent a variety of clinical disciplines across metropolitan, regional and rural Australia.
Successful applicants will be notified Friday 26 March 2021.
Eligibility criteria
To be considered for a scholarship, you must be:
- a current Fellow or trainee of the RACP
- currently employed in an Australian public or private, RACP-accredited clinical setting
- able to demonstrate a recent record of prescribing electronically and/or adopting various digital health initiatives
Here is the link:
https://www.racp.edu.au/expressions-of-interest/adha-racp-digital-health-scholarship
So what the ADHA is doing is paying people to write a couple of case studies of their use for the myHR / e-prescribing presumably only selecting those for the scholarships (or bribes) who in their application suggest they are enthusiastic adopters and users or why would they imagine they would get the money?
Talk about buying favourable expert but clearly not unbiased commentary on the cheap!
I need to note the College has been bought before….
“The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has signed a contract for the period 28-Jun-2019 to 30-Jun-2022, and last week this media release appeared promoting My Health Record and quoting the RACP president. This contract is for about $185K.”
Here is the link:
https://aushealthit.blogspot.com/2019/07/it-seems-we-have-adha-indulging-in.html
To me the bottom line is that this so- called professional Clinical College is just a spruiker of the myHR for money! If they really thought it was of any real value surely they would not need payment to express a view. I suggest they think the #myHR is a waste or worse!
Just why would anyone take their views seriously?
David.
13 comments:
Remember this?
Media release - Improving patient healthcare through digital trials
Published 3 July 2018
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/newsroom/media-releases/archived-media-releases/media-release-improving-patient-healthcare-through
There is a reference to the approved projects:
Further information
Digital Health Test Beds program projects
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/products-and-services/digital-health-test-beds
which returns:
Sorry, we can't find that page
A search of the site doesn't turn up anything else relevant to this $8.5million program
It looks as though the ADHA likes announcing things rather than delivering things.
There's still no report on the Emergency Department study that was supposed to show how valuable myhr is in A&E
Thanks for the illuminating reference Bernard. Yes, we all remember.
Sadly, nothing changes.
The IT industry including AIDH (HISA), RACGP, AMA and others, are all complicit in perpetuating this sort of scenario; too frightened to tell the truth, too frightened to stand up and demand the Government puts a stop to the incredible waste of public monies on the My Health Record.
When there is no voice there is only silence.
You will see the cast and crew behind these gems popping up in Healthdirect. You are rewarded for seeing nothing, hearing nothing, and saying nothing.
That is why there are independent commissions and parliamentary reviews. Soap to wash your hands of responsibility and civility.
500 words x 3 = 1,500 words. $4,000 equates to $2.33 each word!!
AnonymousFebruary 27, 2021 9:53 AM - what?
$2.66 per word - to be accurate! I know a gastroenterologist, who is a very experienced healthIT practitioner, who would be delighted if he was awarded one of the 10 $4000 scholarships. Unfortunately, he would probably be excluded on the grounds that he has too much insight and experience as a physician.
@1:50 PM gotcha. That is one way to look at it. However they should be paying not for how long the job take but how long it takes to earn that knowledge and /or skill. But that’s ADHA for you amd as David points out, the criteria is - MyHR is good all other words should be content padding.
$4,000 for a day's work! Pro Rata that's $20,000 a week or $1 million a year. Twice what Kelsey was being paid
Hey, that's not just a one-off. It's being reoeated 10 times over!!! Is this mob accountable to no-one. How would Scomo view this insane profligacy? Think how he flew off the handle over a few watches. This time it's the equivalent of more than 8 watches in exchange for a few words!!! Yes, Prime Minister. Let's hear what Albo thinks.
I remember about 10 x $3,000,000 grants given to organizations to do some work with the PCEHR, and many of them had no software experience. I don't remember anything ever being published about outcomes, but that was money for jam, they would laugh at $4000 I suspect. Anyone seen a report on those projects? Was around the time of the "Tiger teams" from memory.
Andrew, surely you mean $300,000 grants and not $3,000,000?
Andrew might be thinking about this:
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/e-health-project-costs-rise-by-millions/news-story/4859d183f5fb9cc73d179ba34b643e66
It's amazing how an organisation can run trials, undertake evaluations and reviews, implement changes and still end up with a white elephant.
I suspect NEHTA/ADHA have never properly evaluated the thing, they have consistently looked for signs of success, any signs, even if those signs have nothing to do with success (e.g. the number of records, the number of documents uploaded etc). They don't seem to realise that they haven't found anything because it isn't there. They seem to think they haven't yet looked in the right place to find the answer they want.
The only real test should be "has the myhr saved the money and improved healthcare as was predicted and promised in the original proposal?"
The amazing thing is that the health care/medical industry is very good at running evaluation trials to determine if something is safe and effective. If the same approaches were to be used on the myhr, I doubt any evidence as to financial and medical value could be found.
About the only thing I can think of is an arms length study paid for by ADHA and run by the TGA. The only question such a study would need to ask is "Has it achieve its original objectives?"
ADHA should be able to provide the costs. The states must be able to report on their costs, the Department of Health must be able to add the ePIP costs.
The Department of Health should be able to identify the savings to the budget bottom line achieved over the past 9 years. A GP survey could identify the value of myhr to them.
It's not rocket surgery, the ABS does most of that sort of data gathering all the time.
Don't hold your breath.
Talking about the ABS, there will be a health related question in the next census. People will be asked if they have or have had a major illness.
It's probably too late but they could also have asked about the myhr and how much people use it and value it.
Again, don't hold your breath. I can't see the government asking the sort of question they don't want answered.
"Andrew, surely you mean $300,000 grants and not $3,000,000?"
Have a look here, this one was $4.8 Million
http://www.healthbase.info/PCEHR/wave1/GP_Partners/
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