Here are the results of the poll.
Should The ADHA Ever Be Conducting Closed / Selective Tenders In Secret Rather Than Being Transparent And Always Conducting Open Public Tenders
No - They Should Be Open 97% (74)
Yes - They Can Be Secretive If They Want 3% (2)
I Have No Idea 0% (0)
Total votes: 76
Pretty clear cut outcome – The ADHA should not be using closed secret tender!
Any insights on the poll are welcome, as a comment, as usual!
A great number of votes with a very clear outcome!
It must also have been an easy question as 0/76 (0%) readers were not sure how to respond.
Again, many, many thanks to all those who voted!
David.
10 comments:
re this weeks question. Read this before voting:
Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing A Dramatic Surge In New COVID Cases. Here's Why
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628471/highly-vaccinated-israel-is-seeing-a-dramatic-surge-in-new-covid-cases-heres-why
They are playing within the rules. ADHA is run by people with an academic background in law. Under law - justice, fair play and doing what is right has no place.
I am intrigued as to what this is, I do hope that with a well paid CDO and CTO we are not getting a glossy Microsoft “state of digital health- a framework for action revision. Or a blueprint to modernise ADHA corporate - a bunch of hardware, wan links and M365, AZURE devils and analytics. Record keeping anyone?
That's OK, the vaccine passport will save us all. On the other hand it might have been built to the same standards as COVIDSafe:
COVID vaccine certificates can be forged within 10 minutes due to 'obvious' security flaw
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-08-23/covid-19-vaccine-certificates-forged-in-10-minutes/100390578
do hope that with a well paid CDO and CTO we are not getting a glossy Microsoft “state of digital health- a framework for action revision.
Careful what you hope for
Face reality people. I speak from experience of many economic disruptions and waves of redundancies. ADHA has become invisible to the politicians and senior bureaucrats subsumed in COVID turmoil, border lockdowns, and widespread destruction of businesses, a mental health tsunami and family breakdowns. Throwing a few hundred million dollars at ADHA every year is the non-disruptive line of least resistance.
Perhaps it's time to make our own steel again in Australia.
"Face reality people" Exactly right. The less they do, the less the chance of doing anything wrong. The hope being nobody notices them or expects anything of them.
The biggest risk to the poor folk who have drunk the Koolaid at ADHA is that they lose their jobs. You can't blame them for wanting to be employed these days.
It is easy for the politicians to confuse activity with progress. ADHA has a nice new website with much bigger and brighter pictures and far less information about MyHR.
They said they would do it, they did it. Tick in the box. Just move on to the next meaningless task. As long as it involves only planning and polishing the brown stuff all will be fine.
You would think Brendan Murphy should be able to better deploy the ADHA's "few hundred million dollars" per annum; unless his Department's budget is so bloated he doesn't need to concern himself with the occasional $400+ Million. That's public service accountability at its very best.
At least Brendan Murphy has turned up on the list of board members:
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/about-us/board-members-and-executive-team
Looks as though Health monitors this blog. Someone noticed he was missing a few months ago. Maybe he will take an interest these day. Although he is probably flat out trying to clean up the mess his political masters are creating.
"Maybe he will take an interest these days." Taking an interest will achieve nothing. He is only one member on a Board of 10 Members, therefore whatever power and authority he may have is diluted by 9 other Directors, all with a variety of vested interests in self-preservation.
Furthermore, add in the 6 members of the Executive Team and he is outnumbered 15 to 1. Even so, he still holds the power and authority to influence the future of ADHA because basically HE HOLDS the purse strings.
The key questions however are: 1. Does he have the knowledge and insight to recognise and understand this huge technological failure? and much more importantly, 2. Does he have the courage, strength and wisdom to make a firm stand and exercise control by redirecting the hundreds of millions of dollars under his control.
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