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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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How your employer can keep track of your work at home
By Don Lee
November 25, 2021 — 5.00am
Since the pandemic and the rise in people working from home, employers’ use of employee-monitoring programs has been growing rapidly.
Employers say they’re tracking workers’ activity mainly for two reasons: to promote security and to boost productivity.
What monitoring tools they use and how aggressively they use them vary widely. But the practice has alarmed unions and privacy advocates.
Makers of monitoring software report booming sales, and their products run the gamut in terms of surveillance capabilities. One common feature is that they allow employers to track and collect data on workers’ devices without users’ knowledge.
That may put employers on a slippery slope as far as privacy and trust issues are concerned. But in a sampling of employee-monitoring software programs, the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation found that nine out of the 10 products it reviewed could be made invisible to the people being monitored.
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https://marketplace.service.gov.au/2/digital-marketplace/opportunities/17713
Software Vendor Partnerships Manager
Opportunity ID 17713
Deadline for asking questions Wednesday 1 December 2021 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Application closing date Friday 3 December 2021 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Published Friday 26 November 2021
Category Digital sourcing and ICT procurement
Overview
The Partnerships Team are responsible for managing the strategic relationships with the Agency’s key delivery partner organisations, this includes the vendors who supply and manage health IT software in Australia. The Partnerships Team act as the main conduit between the Agency and our stakeholders to ensure communication is streamlined and issues are effectively managed. They are also responsible for contracting partners on activities that will contribute to the delivery of the Agency’s Workplan. In addition to the key roles and responsibilities outlined in the below description, the Software Vendor Partnerships Manager is also required to have a deep understanding and knowledge of Health IT, as well as technical experience. These additional requirements are outlined below. Represent and negotiate on behalf of the agency to advance the agency’s interests in cross-agency, inter-jurisdictional, international, and other forums utilising a strong existing network within the Health IT software vendor industry, including hospital, general practice, specialist, pathology, diagnostics, community pharmacy and secure messaging platforms. The candidate must be able to leverage this existing network to effectively promote the prioritisation of the Agency’s Workplan, whilst also advocating for vendor interests/limitations internally within the Agency. • Provide a strategic level of specialist, professional and technical expertise; apply experience gained working as a technical lead, software developer or systems integrator; demonstrating the ability to understand complex technical solutions and language. • Experience working across both the public and private sector, ideally within the health industry. • Engage and manage stakeholders through change, resolving conflict and managing sensitivities through effective communication with software developers and industry partners across all organisational levels (developer/technical, operational, management and c-suite). • Anticipate and establish priorities, monitor progress and work to deliver required corporate outcomes, specific agency functions; apply an expertise and demonstrated understanding of: o Software development lifecycles o Health IT technical sales or pre-sales o Issues and constraints that affect vendors and industry partners o Software industry peak bodies • Undertake highly complex analysis and interpretation; applying significant judgement in choosing a course of action to manage highly complex and sensitive issues; mapping significant vendor impacts based on the Agency’s pipeline of activities, enabling the software community to be prepared for upcoming changes and requirements. • Apply and maintain an extensive understanding of procurement, contracting and service level agreements within government and private enterprise to ensure practical and mutually beneficial contracting solutions for the Agency.
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New National Aged Care Advisory Council to guide $17.7bn sector reform
By Jill Donaldson on November 26, 2021 Aged Care Government Policy In the Headlines News & Issues
In an encouraging sign for aged care reform, the Government has appointed its 17-member National Aged Care Advisory Council, which will advise and guide its $17.7 billion overhaul of the sector.
The Council will be chaired by former Victorian MP Andrea Coote (centre), inaugural chair of the Aged Care Quality and Safety Advisory Council, who also served on the Aged Care Sector Committee.
Minister for Health and Aged Care Greg Hunt said the upcoming reforms were “the most significant ever undertaken by an Australian Government” to improve home and residential care for older Australians.
“This Advisory Council will play a key role in guiding that implementation, alongside a new Council of Elders and an Inspector-General of Aged Care.
“I welcome the appointment of all 17 members to the Advisory Council and I look forward to working alongside them as we ensure our aged care system delivers respect, care and dignity for our senior Australians,” he said.
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Electronic prescriptions update for community pharmacies: the benefits of Active Script List
Event details
When Tuesday, 30 November 2021
7:30pm - 8:30pm (AEDT)
Where Online
Hosted by Australian Digital Health Agency
Register here Contact us
General enquiries
Phone: 1300 901 001
8am - 5pm (AEST/AEDT) Monday - Friday
Email: help@digitalhealth.gov.au
Electronic prescriptions continue to remain a valuable component of healthcare delivery across Australia with more functions becoming available to patients and healthcare professionals who use them.
Join the Australian Digital Health Agency in this webinar to learn more about the new management options available to patients who take multiple medicines which simplify their experience of using electronic prescriptions, such as the Active Script List (ASL).
With over 70,000 patients now registered for ASL, we’ll be joined by a Pharmacist guest speaker who will share their experience of starting the conversation about ASL with patients. We will discuss the positive impact ASL can have on the pharmacy’s workflow as well as the benefits for patients who take part in registering for this new service, gaining additional convenience and flexibility to access their medicines.
Any questions about electronic prescriptions are welcome and will be answered during the session.
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https://medicalrepublic.com.au/anyone-know-how-to-run-an-online-exam/58565
25 November 2021
Anyone know how to run an online exam?
By Senior Psychiatry Registrar
Another Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry exam fail, another delay in accrediting Australia’s next cohort of mental health specialists.
Eminent psychiatrists, such as National Association of Practising Psychiatrists president Dr Philip Morris and Dr Ted Cassidy, are calling for the trainees to be urgently passed retrospectively based on the 150 formative work-based assessments they have already completed up to this point.
Trainee psychiatrists are exhausted after repeatedly cancelling or deferring major life plans in order to sit these exams, which for many are the final hurdle before full accreditation. They are desperate to relax and return to the regular pressures of modern day pandemic life, while working long hours in our hospitals and often on the frontline.
To make clear the dire nature of the situation: since October 2019 only 207 Australian & New Zealand trainees have been able to sit the OSCE; of this group, only 25 candidates were from NSW, a state disproportionately impacted by the bungled exams. For comparison, in the period spanning from October 2017 to November 2019, a total of 682 Australian & New Zealand trainees were able to sit the OSCE.
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https://marketplace.service.gov.au/2/digital-marketplace/opportunities/17666
The Australian Digital Health Agency
Development and delivery of a digital health solution
Opportunity ID 17666
Deadline for asking questions Tuesday 14 December 2021 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Application closing date Thursday 16 December 2021 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Published Thursday 25 November 2021
Panel category Content and Publishing
Additional terms Comprehensive terms apply
Overview
This procurement requires solutions that quickly target and address barriers for vulnerable Australians, specifically multicultural communities, struggling to access information about the COVID-19 vaccine and to access a vaccination. The Agency requests suppliers provide quotes on feasibility documentation for the development and delivery of a digital health solution which can provide real-time responses to address multicultural communities’ specific needs. This functionality is intended to boost the dissemination of factual vaccine information within these communities and support participation in the vaccine rollout, including any necessary vaccine booster programs.
Estimated start date January 2022
Location of work Offsite
Working arrangements Meetings via Teams. Communications via email and Teams.
Length of contract 6-12 months
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Phone fraud: stolen accounts warning as scammers strike
4:00AM November 24, 2021
Australians’ phone accounts are increasingly being hacked by scammers who steal control of their numbers, personal information and bank details.
A new report by the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has examined the “devastating” impact the practice is having on consumers and warns that some mobile providers’ security processes are poor.
Hijacking phone accounts has enabled fraudsters to order new handsets and steal mobile numbers by transferring them to a new SIM card, which can then unlock more sensitive personal data usually protected by two-factor authentication.
“In many cases, the stolen mobile number was used to gain access to their bank account or other accounts such as email or MyGov,” the report says.
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Cybercrime needs more than just reporting to stop ransomware attacks
The government wants big businesses to report ransomware incidents, but should it also ban them from paying ransoms?
Cheng Lim and Bryony Evans
Nov 25, 2021 – 5.00am
Ransomware has been the cyber security threat of 2021, with almost daily reports of ransomware incidents affecting organisations, large and small. Security group CyberCX recently observed that the frequency of cyber extortion attacks against Australian and New Zealand organisations more than doubled from the first quarter to the second quarter of 2021.
The government’s recent Ransomware Action Plan is its first concrete action to address the scourge of ransomware by mandating ransomware incident reporting to government.
But while mandatory ransomware incident notifications may enhance the government’s knowledge of the ransomware threat and better support victims of attacks, does it go far enough to help address the problem? We think it is unlikely that a ransomware incident reporting obligation would in itself serve to discourage cyber criminals from continuing ransomware attacks.
Mandatory ransomware notification will impose another set of cyber security reporting obligations on businesses, in addition to the notifiable data breach reporting obligations under the Privacy Act, the cyber security incident reporting obligations under CPS 234 (for financial institutions) and the proposed cyber security reporting obligations for Critical Infrastructure and Systems of National Significance under the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020.
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Digital health accelerator appoints international advisory committee
Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
ANDHealth has appointed its inaugural International Investment Advisory Committee (IIAC), which will provide critical insights and frontline industry experience to the MRFF funded ANDHealth Digital Health Accelerator Fund and associated ANDHealth+ program.
The IIAC comprises internationally recognised investors, clinicians, founders and executives with proven track records in identification and growth within the evidence-based digital health sector.
The committee will be chaired by globally recognised digital health leader Lisa Suennen. Named 2018 Rock Health Digital Health Evangelist of the Year, Suennen has spent more than 30 years in operating and investing roles at the intersection of technology and health, and has been actively engaged with ANDHealth for many years. She heads the Manatt Phelps & Phillips Digital and Technology Practice, and is also a Managing Partner of the Manatt Venture Fund.
Suennen will be supported by: Bronwyn Le Grice, CEO & Managing Director of ANDHealth; Anand Iyer, Chief Strategy Officer, WellDoc; Andrew Murphy, Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, Robotify Labs & Partner, Erisbeg Fund; Aenor Sawyer, Director, University of California Space Health; Director, UCSF Skeletal Health Service; Bill Lucia, Executive Partner, Consonance Capital and HEP Fund (former Chairman and CEO of HMS, acquired by Gainwell 2021 US$3.4B); Drew Schiller, CEO, Validic; Katherine (Kate) Merton, Principal, Hicks Cohen, former SVP Digital Care Delivery, Anthem Inc; and Ken Cahill, CEO, Silvercloud (acquired by Amwell 2021 US$320m).
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SNOMED CT-AU and Australian Medicines Terminology November 2021 Release
Published 22 November 2021
The National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS) is pleased to announce that the November combined release of SNOMED CT®-AU and the Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT) is now available to registered users from the NCTS website.
Important Information
SNOMED CT-AU Change Reports, CSV
Two new custom CSV files are now available. They contain the concept changes (deltas) between the latest SNOMED CT-AU release and the one prior in an easy to use human readable format for the non-technical user.
Licensees can access these files from the Other section of the NCTS website’s Access tab, after logging in. Please contact the NCTS should you require further information.
Document Library update
The following resource has been added to the Document Library:
Please refer to the NCTS Document Library Release Note v2.29 in Recent Updates for further details.
Events
SNOMED CT Expo 2021
This year the conference was held as a virtual event on October 28-29. All Expo content is now available on-demand until the end of January 2022 to registered attendees. New registrations are still welcome. Not registered? Click here.
For
further information and to register for this free event, visit:
https://www.snomed.org/news-and-events/events/snomedct-expo
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https://hnc.org.au/events/my-health-record-demo-bp-xhp-x4-2/
My Health Record – a practical demonstration (Best Practice)
ADHA Propaganda
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
- ensure appropriate security and access governance mechanisms are in place.
Run via GoTo webinar platform, these sessions will afford an opportunity for participants to raise questions directly with the instructor and to discuss other issues encountered in using My Health Record.
For more information on this or for follow up My Health Record support for your practice please contact education@digitalhealth.gov.au.
This education is CPD accredited by AAPM, RACGP, ACRRM and NAATSIHWP.
RSVP Here by Mon 22 November, 05:00 pm
Venue: Webinar
Date/Time: Mon 22 Nov 2021, 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm AEDT
Event Organiser: Australian Digital Health Agency
Email: Click here
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