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This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.
I will also try to highlight ADHA Propaganda when I come upon it.
Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! Its pretty sad!
Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.
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http://www.healthintersections.com.au/?p=3065
HL7 Australia Webinar: Smart Health Cards
Posted on September 22, 2021 by Grahame Grieve
SMART
HEALTH CARE CARDS WEBINAR – 5 OCTOBER 2021
Register Here: https://lnkd.in/gQj77KMF
The
Board of HL7 Australia invites you to join a free Webinar on Tuesday 5 October
2021 at 09:00 AEDT to hear from key thinkers and implementors of SMART Health
Cards and FHIR resources.
The subject of verifiable COVID immunisation and lab certificates is a very
fast-moving subject here in Australia and New Zealand.
In the USA, Canada, and elsewhere, government immunisation registries,
healthcare providers, EHR vendors, private employers, and technology companies
are building an infrastructure based on SMART Health Cards and FHIR resources.
This work is coordinated through the VCI consortium (https://vci.org/),
supported by HL7. Come and listen to the panel of key thinkers and implementors
for this work, including leaders from the Health IT community in USA. They’ll
describe their intent, how the specification works, and how it’s been adopted
in the Apple and Android ecosystems. This technology is in production today.
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https://digitalhealth.org.au/blog/introducing-the-2021-healthcare-cybersecurity-survey/
Introducing the 2021 Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey
Sep 20, 2021 | Advocacy, AIDH news, Community Chats, Community of Practice, Cybersecurity, E-Safety, Surveys
The general community places its trust in the health system to safeguard health information. Is the healthcare sector doing enough to protect health information and the security of their systems?
We seek to understand the current state of awareness and processes in cybersecurity across the Australian health sector.
The data from this survey will be compared to the 2017 survey report to evaluate what has changed, what has improved and what is yet to be done to safeguard health information. You can access the report (published in 2018) at this link.
Who should participate?
- If you work in the health sector, we want to hear from you
- If you have a decision-making role in managing risk (including Board), we want to hear from you
- If you know very little about cybersecurity or if you are the cybersecurity guru in your organisation, we want to hear from you (to be fair, there are more questions for the gurus
Why participate?
- Gain insight into how your organisation’s cybersecurity processes compare to your peers and the 2017 security snapshot
- Gain insight into how the cybersecurity landscape has matured in the Australian health sector over the past 4 years
- Guide the activities of the Cybersecurity Community of Practice (CoP) over the next 12 months.
It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete the survey (for the cybersecurity gurus/those who are responsible for managing risk – allow up to 25mins).
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Australians urged to brace for ‘cyber pandemic’
1:18PM September 24, 2021
Australian businesses are being urged to prepare for a widespread global ‘cyber pandemic’, amid new research showing nearly three quarters of cyber attacks are targeting Australian remote workers.
The research, released this week, found that 73 per cent of Australian organisations were victims of cyber attacks targeting remote workers over the past 12 months, making them one of the biggest risks facing Australian organisations in the new world of work.
Only 29 per cent of Australian remote workers comply with employers’ security guidelines and measures, however, while just two in five security executives say they lack visibility into remote employee home networks and their connected devices.
The global study of 1300 executives from research firm Forrester and commissioned by cyber exposure outfit Tenable found that 77 per cent of Australian businesses plan to have employees working from home at least once a week in the next 12 to 24 months, while 59 per cent plan to make remote work permanent in the next one to two years.
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https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-nsw-s-vaccine-passports-will-work-20210922-p58ts9.html
How NSW’s vaccine passports will work
By Sarah McPhee and Daniella White
September 22, 2021 — 3.54pm
As Sydney and parts of NSW prepare to open from lockdown next month, the state government has shared more information about how it plans to roll out vaccine passports.
Venues including pubs, restaurants and hairdressers will be allowed to reopen to fully vaccinated customers the Monday after NSW hits 70 per cent vaccination coverage of people aged 16 and older.
Projections put the state’s reopening date as Monday, October 11.
Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello said the government was developing a system that will integrate vaccine certificates into the Service NSW app, and the design was “pretty much there”.
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Get Online Week: My Health Record- Aldinga Library
Next date: Tuesday, 19 October 2021 | 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM ADHA Propaganda
An introduction to My health Record, what it is and how it can improve health outcomes.
For adults. Bookings essential.
COVID-SAFE Guidelines:
· Please follow accepted hygiene measures including sanitising hands when entering the building and staying home if you are unwell.
· Please follow accepted physical distancing measures of 1.5 m
· Please ensure you have checked in to our venue.
· This activity may be switched to online, cancelled or postponed as advice from SA Health changes.
Please note that photographs of our activities may be taken from time to time to assist with the development of promotional material and social media content. If you do not wish to be photographed while participating in an activity, please speak to a library staff member.
When
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
Aldinga Library, 11 Central Way, Aldinga Beach 5173 View Map
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https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/guidance-and-advice/my-health-record/
My Health Record
A My Health Record is an electronic summary of a patient’s health information. A registered healthcare provider organisation may view or add health information (such as diagnoses, treatments, medications and allergies) to a patient’s My Health Record as long as they follow their access controls.
Using the My Health Record system
8 September 2021
A healthcare provider organisation must register to use the My Health Record system, which contains a summary of a patient's health information.
Read more: Using the My Health Record system
Handling information in a My Health Record
8 September 2021
A healthcare provider organisation registered to use the My Health Record system is authorised to collect, use and disclose health information to provide health care to a patient.
Read more: Handling information in a My Health Record
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https://soundcloud.com/thegoodgp/the-good-gp-my-health-record-episode-44/sets
My Health Record - Episode 44
ADHA Propaganda
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https://www.ddwmphn.com.au/upcoming-events/my-health-record-aged-care-case-study
My Health Record - Aged Care Case Study
My Health Record can provide access to accurate and relevant clinical information uploaded by a range of providers (GPs, hospitals, pharmacists), that may assist in improving quality of life, care coordination and ultimately reduce potential medication misadventures. This webinar will explore the benefits of using My Health Record through a case study to assist attendees’ understanding of how to use the clinical information in My Health Record and apply it to everyday workflow/practice or care. ADHA Propaganda
Fri 1 Oct 2021
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My Health Record: a Practical Demonstration (MedicalDirector)
ADHA Propaganda
These one hour sessions are aimed at GPs, Specialists, Practice Managers, Practice Nurses and Aboriginal Health Workers interested in learning more about My Health Record and how to use it most effectively in routine practice. Using a software simulation platform the instructor will demonstrate how to:
• access your patients’ My Health Records in your software;
• use filters to find documents;
• view documents and overviews;
• Understand how to view immunisation history in My Health Record
• enter access codes for patients with protected documents/records;
• upload documents to My Health Record; and
• ensure appropriate security and access governance mechanisms are in place.
Tue 28 Sep
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https://www.ddwmphn.com.au/upcoming-events/my-health-record-for-hospital-staff
My Health Record for hospital staff
Having access to health information contained in the My Health Record can reduce the instance of adverse medication events (including hospital re-admissions), decrease duplicate diagnostic testing and improve continuity of care for patients across the primary and secondary care sectors. ADHA Propaganda
Given the increased use and adoption of the system, embedding the use of the My Health Record very early in a clinician’s journey through the healthcare system will ensure it will become one of many valuable digital decision support tools routinely accessed to improve patient care.
Content will include:
• pathology and diagnostic report viewing
• medicines view
• discharge summaries
• primary care shared health and event summaries
• advance care planning documents
The sessions will also provide advice on general security and access compliance processes
Wed 6 Oct 2021
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My Health Record a Practical Demonstration - National Provider Portal (NPP)
ADHA Propaganda
These sessions are aimed at clinicians and support staff such as allied health providers, specialists, community health nurses, Aboriginal Health Care workers and consultant pharmacists who do not currently have access to conformant clinical software. Sessions will demonstrate how to:
• log onto the Provider Portal via PRODA
• use filters to find documents;
• view documents and overviews;
• Understand how to view immunisation history in My Health Record;
• enter access codes for patients with protected documents/records;
• download documents to local systems; and
• ensure appropriate security and access governance mechanisms are in place
Wed 6 Oct 2021
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https://www.ddwmphn.com.au/upcoming-events/learn-how-to-use-my-health-record-in-genie
Learn how to use My Health Record in Genie
Learn the core features of My Health Record including how to effectively view and upload information. The sessions are designed to be interactive where participants are encouraged to ask questions and raise any issues. ADHA Propaganda
Understand how to:
• Save time by accessing overview summary documents including medicines, immunisations, pathology and diagnostic imaging
• Find documents relevant to your clinical practice e.g. discharge summaries
• Understand how to view the available Medicare information.
Thu 7 Oct 2021
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https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/newsroom/digital-bytes/digital-bytes-with-maria-benke-audiologist
Digital Bytes with Maria Benke - Audiologist
Published 21 September 2021 ADHA Propaganda
In this Digital Bytes, see how audiologists and their patients can use My Health Record as a convenient place to securely store and access vital health information.
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Digital tech is the future, but a new report shows Australia risks being left in the past
Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering issue call to action.
By Shazia Sadiq , Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas on Sep 21 2021 8:45AM
Digital technologies are now at the heart of our everyday lives, as anyone who has swapped their office for a videoconferencing screen, or downloaded a contact-tracing app, knows only too well.
This trend is set to continue even in a post-COVID world. Australia is at a crossroads in developing a strong digital economy to meet this changing world head-on.
In the words of the computing pioneer Alan Kay, “the best way to predict the future is to create it”. Australia too needs to grab the opportunity to leverage its research and development strengths in emerging digital technologies, and create a “digital future” by amplifying the opportunities for growth in this important sector and strengthen our sovereign capabilities. But Australia is lagging behind many other nations in shaping this digital future.
In a new report released today, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering have jointly issued an urgent call to action, asking the government and industry to recognise the importance of emerging digital technologies.
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How Twilio Transforms Customer Engagement For Businesses In Australia
Paid Program
Businesses have been undergoing digital transformations for some time, but the global pandemic has accelerated the transition. The series of lockdowns that ensued has disrupted business operations, putting tremendous pressure on such vital services as customer engagement. Major businesses sought enterprise solutions that can handle varied business activities, while others had to equip their employees who have started to work from home with secure, powerful, and flexible platforms.
During this period of unprecedented challenges, Australia’s largest dedicated pharmacy IT solutions provider and a leading global appliance company recruited Twilio to demonstrate the power of APIs in revolutionizing customer engagement.
Safer, Easier and more Effective Digital Solutions
Digitalization has accelerated rapidly in recent years, and the healthcare industry has been no exception. Fred IT, a technology provider to the Australian pharmacy industry that began in the garage of two men 29 years ago, has been for the past decade helping the medical industry transition from paper to electronic prescriptions with the creation of eRx Script Exchange.
In 2020, Fred was working to make ePrescriptions a legal option for prescribing medication with a tight timeline to design and build out the new platform. Along with the Australian Digital Health Agency, The Australian Department of Health and other stakeholders, they worked to centralize the process by enabling the technology and connecting 50-60 industry vendors to the eRx platform.
To do this, it needed to build a new system, which would traditionally take over six months. Instead, Fred IT implemented Twilio’s Programmable Messaging API, which accelerated its timeline, from concept to market, to eight weeks amidst a global pandemic.
Electronic prescriptions, or ePrescriptions, allows patients to order their medications remotely from their local pharmacy, this includes via WhatsApp if registered for My Script List (MySL). This innovation makes it easier for patients to manage their ePrescriptions, and safer for healthcare professionals and patients during the pandemic.
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Security and Access policy checklist
Healthcare provider organisations are required to have a My Health Record Security and Access policy, to meet requirements outlined in the My Health Records Rule 2016 (Rule 42).
This checklist can be used as a guide to drafting or updating this policy for your healthcare organisation.
Security and Access policy checklist
It is important that healthcare provider organisations have a My Health Record Security and Access policy in place, prior to registering to participate in the My Health Record system. The policy must be communicated to, accessible by, and enforced with, employees and other relevant parties. The policy must also be kept up to date by reviewing it, at least annually, or when any material new or changed risks are identified.
This checklist is a guide only and should be assessed against the needs and risks that may apply to your organisation. Healthcare provider organisations need to ensure the policy includes and addresses the topics outlined in the My Health Records Rule 2016, Rule 42. At a high-level the topics include:
- Policy establishment – a My Health Record Security and Access policy is in place prior to registration, maintained on an ongoing basis, and communicated to all staff.
- Manner of authorising users, and processes for suspending and deactivating user accounts in specific circumstances.
- Provision of training for authorised users before they are permitted to access the My Health Record system.
- A process for identifying who is accessing a My Health Record (on each occasion) and communicating this information to the Agency (My Health Record System Operator).
- Physical and information security measures, including user account management practices.
- Risk management – strategies for identifying, responding to, and reporting My Health Record system-related security risks.
- Assisted Registration processes (where applicable). If the healthcare provider organisation provides assisted registration, the policy needs to include the authorisation, training, consent, and identification processes that are followed when providing assisted registration.
- Policy implementation and maintenance – annual review of the policy (minimum), version numbers and dates of effect are outlined in the policy, and copies of each version of the policy are retained.
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https://www.afr.com/technology/tech-dangers-lurk-in-home-quarantine-trials-20210919-p58t18
Tech dangers lurk in home quarantine trials
John Davidson Columnist
Sep 21, 2021 – 5.00am
Home quarantine systems that use facial recognition and artificial intelligence to police whether citizens stay at home are a dangerous incursion on civil rights and should only be used with the utmost caution, privacy and AI ethics experts have warned.
Worse still, they do not work nearly as well as more conventional methods of home detention, and could endanger public health at the same time they are allowing AI-based surveillance make dangerous inroads into Australia, other experts say.
Last week, the NSW government said it would begin trials of AI-based facial recognition apps, in the hope of allowing returned travellers and airline staff to quarantine for COVID-19 at home, rather than in the state’s controversial hotel quarantine system, which is being wound down as vaccination levels increase.
The Victorian government has also said it will conduct home quarantine trials, for residents trapped by border closures with NSW.
It is unclear whether Australia’s two most populous states will use the government-built home quarantine app already being trialled in South Australia, or the app already in use in Western Australia, G2G Now, made by the small, Perth-based software company Genvis.
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https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/careers/partnership-manager/257
Partnership Manager
EL1
($122,716 - $139,959)
Digital
Programs and Engagement Division > Communications
Brisbane,
Canberra, Sydney
Closing - 4 Oct 2021
Division overview
Digital programs and engagement – responsible for external relationships, implementation and change and adoption, as well as being the place of excellence for driving program delivery, reporting and outcomes.
Primary purpose of position
The EL1 Partnership Manager is accountable under broad direction to perform very complex stakeholder engagement and partnership management functions working with external partners and key stakeholders to deliver the National Digital Health Strategy.
They will exercise a considerable degree of independence and perform a leadership role taking responsibility to engage and manage relationships with one or more of the following stakeholder groups including State and Territory jurisdictions, private hospitals, clinical peaks, primary health networks, software developers and commercial organisations.
The EL1 Partnership Manager will exercise sound decision making and judgement and will engage in very complex problem solving and issues management and may coordinate and undertake detailed or sensitive projects that impact on strategic or operational outcomes for the Agency.
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https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/careers/executive-officer/266
Executive Officer
EL1
($122,716 - $139,959)
Multiple
divisions > Administration
Brisbane,
Canberra, Sydney
Closing - 4 Oct 2021
Division overview
Digital strategy – responsible for national digital health design and strategy, underpinned by strong clinical governance and digital health standards.
Technology services – responsible for the operation of high quality, trusted, reliable and secure national digital health infrastructure and health support systems.
Corporate services – responsible for bringing together our corporate enabling services so that they are coordinated, effective and mutually reinforcing.
Purpose of position
The EL1 Executive Officer position will provide executive office management, support and coordination, reporting directly to a Division Head.
The EL1 Executive Officer is accountable under broad direction to undertake and coordinate very complex operational, administration and Division business management activities in support of the Division Head. They will develop and apply a comprehensive knowledge of the administration, project, financial, reporting and business management requirements within the Agency to achieve expected outcomes. Gaining this knowledge will require skills in relationship development, strong communication and transparency in the way you go about your work. It also requires a strong interest in the work of the Agency, across all areas of our work, such that the work of your Division can be undertaken in collaboration with other Executive Officers in the Agency and in the context of the broader work program.
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https://www.albany.wa.gov.au/events/my-health-record/1374
My Health Record
Tuesday 28th September 2021 - Wednesday 29th September 2021
ADHA Propaganda
This session will introduce learners to My Health Record. My Health Record is an online platform allowing healthcare professionals to share information with each other as well as the patient, to help give a clearer and more complete picture of a person’s health to aid in their treatment. This session will give learners an overview of the platform, along with the opportunity to access and use My Health Record.
BOOK ONLINE HERE or give the Library a call on 6820 3600.
Prior to attending this session, participants will need to have an email address (with password known), a MyGov account and login details, and some experience completing online forms.
Online training for these pre-requirements is available through Be Connected:
- Email Address and Email Password (complete training here)
- MyGov Account and Login Details (complete training here)
- Online Forms Experience (complete training here)
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David.
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