Here are the results of the poll.
Is The Current ADHA Agenda Really Relevant And Useful To The Overall Australian Health Sector?
Yes 4% (3)
No 96% (67)
I Hve No Idea 0% (0)
Total votes: 70
A pretty clear cut outcome – It seems readers here see the ADHA as a waste of space! Pity abut the huge budget and staff numbers that get us nowhere!
Any insights on the poll are welcome, as a comment, as usual!
A good number of votes with a pretty clear outcome!
Amazingly 0 of 70 who answered the poll admitted to not being sure about the answer to the question!
Again, many, many thanks to all those who voted!
David.
It was always going to be the case. ADoHA souled it soul to the Centralised unstructured database. The ADHA is a product out of step with the times as as a product it has no real market value or share. They failed to augment the community to co-design the policies, strategies and standards compliance required.
ReplyDeleteRe the current week's poll question.
ReplyDeleteRemember the ANAO audit? The report was in November 2019 - nearly two years ago.
https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/implementation-the-my-health-record-system
"The ADHA has not undertaken an end-to-end privacy risk assessment of the ongoing operation of the My Health Record system under the opt-out model. The last privacy specific risk assessment was completed in 2017 and, although ADHA funded the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to conduct at least four privacy reviews between October 2017 and June 2019, none were completed in that period.
ADHA did not have sufficient assurance arrangements to satisfy itself that all instances of the emergency access did not constitute an interference with privacy. It should therefore review its approach and procedures and for notifying the Information Commissioner of potential contraventions."
The very first recommendation said:
"3.27 ADHA conduct an end-to-end privacy risk assessment of the operation of the My Health Record system under the opt-out model, including shared risks and mitigation controls, and incorporate the results of this assessment into the risk management framework for the My Health Record system.
Australian Digital Health Agency response: Agreed."
According to this report in June 2021:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/digital-health-agency-says-my-health-record-risk-mitigation-work-on-track/
"One of the recommendations made by ANAO was that ADHA conduct an end-to-end privacy risk assessment of the operation of the My Health Record system under the opt-out model, including shared risks and mitigation controls. It also recommended for the agency to incorporate the results of this assessment into the risk management framework for the My Health Record system.
The agency said it would work with public and private sector healthcare providers, professional associations, consumer groups, and medical indemnity insurers on an "overarching privacy risk assessment", and incorporate results into the risk management plan for My Health Record.
With a privacy risk assessment completed in September, and initial risk register updates flagged as done as of February, the ADHA has given itself until November to complete the risk management work."
Two questions?
1. Will they meet their own timetable? They've only got about five weeks left.
2. Will it be a genuine, comprehensive audit and include all the risks associated with the end points, especially in light of the recent concerns over the way FHIR is/can be/should be implemented. At least it should make recommendations to guide further development of the so called new ecosystem, the intention of which is to increase data aggregation.
Peter Dunstone - MyHR is not really a DoHA concern it is now overseen by Services Australia
ReplyDeleteBernard - I think we know the answers to your questions, however like you I look forward to being corrected
@6:59AM If MYHR is now overseen by Services Australia and ADHA is funded by Federal and State Health Departments then effectively the Federal DoH has abandoned the MYHR and its failure is no longer of any concern to Minister Hunt and Dr Brenda Murphy.
ReplyDelete.... in other words the MYHR is a lonely shag on a rock.
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