This appeared a day or so ago.
My Health Record issues prevent patients from getting COVID vaccine
Australia’s troubled vaccine rollout has hit another problem as patients struggle to prove they are eligible for the vaccine.
Sue Dunlevy - National Health Reporter March 27, 2021 - 8:06AM
News Corp Australia Network
It costs taxpayers $2 billion but the My Health Record is proving useless when it comes to helping people prove they have a medical condition that prioritises them for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Two million Australians who have an underlying medical condition are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine under phase 1b which began this week and many will be unable to get it at their regular GP.
Only 1000 GP’s are currently approved to provide the vaccine and one in three GPs decided not to apply to deliver the vaccines at all.
This means patients will need to provide some kind of proof to an unfamiliar medical practice they have a condition that qualifies them for a priority vaccination.
The Department of Health’s website says: “If you are not eligible or cannot demonstrate your eligibility when you arrive for your vaccination, you may be asked to leave.”
“For individuals attending their usual GP, the clinic’s records may be relied upon as evidence. Other forms of accepted evidence include: • My Health Record • Government issued documents with date of birth (e.g. Centrelink, Medicare, Department of Veterans Affairs),” the site says.
Bronia Nowaine has a cardiac problem and, as advised by the Department of Health, had planned to use her My Health Record as proof of the condition so she could get a COVID-19 vaccine under the current stage 1b.
When she opened her My Health Record online to see if it would be of use she was shocked to discover it was virtually empty.
More here:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/coronavirus/my-health-record-issues-prevent-patients-from-getting-covid-vaccine/news-story/66261fd96a85d622515f02567cf08805
What a surprise that the #myHealthRecord was out of date and incomplete! Most of the records are!!
Why does the ADHA and Government keep suggesting this hopeless system is good for anything other than occupying a lot of space on the disks of some expensive provider of ‘Cloud Services’?
We know, for instance that out of a population of 25 million or so only 230,000 or so have uploaded a Health Summary and that GP’s have uploaded even less – exactly how many is so small that the official statistics don’t even disclose the number!
See here for details and a lot of not really useful statistics regarding the use of the system!
https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/statistics
Same issues apply with the recent floods. The records are only of much use if the patient has enabled input of MBS data and I can’t see a figure for that either!
Really they are looking pretty desperate trying to justify the system’s cost and continued existence.
There are much better and much cheaper ways to address the myHR use cases the Government keeps trying to use to justify the system’s existence and they know it. Putting out tenders to try and make the system more useable for specialist is a classic ‘lip stick on a pig’ approach to trying to resurrect a failed and structurally and architecturally ill-designed system that is simply not fit-for-purpose and can never be!
See here:
ADHA takes 'open-minded' approach to My Health Record clinical information system
The Australian Digital Health Agency is offering software developers financial support and the chance to workshop their plans.
By Aimee Chanthadavong | March 26, 2021 -- 02:18 GMT (13:18 AEDT) | Topic: Innovation
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) said it wishes to take an "open-minded" approach in its search for software providers to help further enhance the My Health Record (MHR) functionality in the clinical information systems (CISs) to encourage more private specialists to use the platform.
"One of the challenges in developing specialist-centric My Health Record functionality in CISs is that specialists comprise an extremely diverse user group. Different types of specialists are likely to have different information needs, and follow somewhat different workflows in accessing and sharing patient information. This industry offer has been designed to help meet that challenge," the agency responsible for the My Health Record said.
In its request for tender, the ADHA outlined it would provide financial assistance to software developers to participate in a "collaborative design exercise" with the agency, which would revolve around a "one-on-one kick-off workshop" scheduled for early May.
Lots more here:
What nonsense!
David.
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At the bottom of Sue Dunlevy's article it says:
(Ms Nowaine said) she contacted the Royal Brisbane Hospital that treated her cardiac event and asked them to upload her records but they told her they couldn’t do that.
"They said we don’t upload things to My Health Record, we can send you a consent form, which you can fill in and send back to us and we can give you your records and then you can upload them," she said.
All the hospital can do is upload a discharge summary. However Royal Brisbane Hospital is incorrect when it says a patient can upload their records. Patients can't upload that sort of stuff.
Not even Hospitals know how this thing works, or doesn't work, more to the point.
Wonder if the one on one involves anyone who knows what they are talking about?
Not so long ago ( November) the ADHA stated - 96% of public hospitals are connected to the record, with 94% of those using it.
Must be pure chance that a small hospital in Queensland is part of the 4%.
This really is a poor outcome. No service, no outcome, no utility, no anything- really disappointing.
I guess government has become so use to this bungling it is part of a process so all seems normal to them.
If half of what is being talked about then it is no wonder the APS and parliaments are unable to function or make informed decisions. Bunch of drunken buffoons by all accounts. Should not be in charge of anything.
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