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Wednesday, November 03, 2021
The ADHA Has Opened Its Kimono In A Very Unexpected Way. I Guess They Thought No One Would Notice!
I noticed this last week:
Workforce Strategy
Australian Digital Health Workforce Strategy 2021-2026
460 staff (248 female, 212 male). Of the 460 staff it seems 290 are permanent and 170 are temp and that by June 2022 nearly all will be permanent totalling 420!?
165 (36%) staff are in Digital Strategy. What does that mean? Surely that doesn’t mean they are all involved in developing strategies! Maybe they are involved in implementing ‘THE’ Digital Strategy!
I wonder how ADHA's workforce strategy fits in with initiatives like this:
Digital health project hopes to improve hospital decision-making https://www.hospitalhealth.com.au/content/technology/news/digital-health-project-hopes-to-improve-hospital-decision-making-740752390
It looks to me as though the Digital Health CRC (DHCRC) and NSW are completely ignoring the ADHA. Not a surprise really.
Interesting how the CRC brands itself: https://www.digitalhealthcrc.com/
"Smart. Connected. Transformative
Digital Health CRC is Australia’s leading organisation for digital health innovation and commercialisation
Why we exist
We exist to connect the ecosystem of industry, government, providers, consumers, academia and research to solve the most pressing healthcare challenges.
Focused on a sustainable impact on health outcomes and increased efficiencies, we identify, co-invest and support projects, accelerating the implementation of digital health technologies, underpinned by research-driven evidence."
The ADHA gets a mention as a "participant" along with 20 other Government agencies, 17 Academic institutions and 26 Industry bodies.
CRC is just an interface for Government and the research county, they do interesting work, like NEHTA much of it will be buried as it flies in the face of some thinking and agenda. The more interesting one to watch is Healthdirect which is forming up as a haven for ADHA drop-outs. All jobs for the mates type thing. Wonder what sort of transparency and process goes on around renemration and selection?
Combined CRC and Health Direct do pretty much what half of Nehta did, except combined they are twice the size and far more expensive.
Agree, Health Direct does appear to e transitioning a number of old ADHA fiefdoms. I am sure the tactic is to keep things separated- far easier to control.
what you seem to be saying that Digital Health in Australia is about as useful as this government's plan for climate change? Just keep saying Technology! Technology! Technology! Technology! and hope a miracle happens.
The government has three options:
1 Show leadership and do something really useful 2 Do nothing and hope for the best 3 Do something totally useless, get in everyone's way and make things worse
It's full steam ahead with #3 in both cases. In Digital Health it's MyHR, in climate change it's carbon capture and storage.
What a load of rubbish.
ReplyDeleteWho delivers healthcare in Australia?
The states (hospitals) and the private sector (GPs, healthcare specialists and path labs.)
None of these are even mentioned. never mind acknowledged as key stakeholders.
Oh, and neither are patients.
The states are doing far more than the ADHA could ever do in terms of connecting healthcare, and they are doing it without the ADHA.
Yet they say "Our vision as an Agency is to create a healthier future for Australians through connected healthcare".
As Richard Feynman said: "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."
It looks to me as though they are well and truly fooling themselves.
460 staff (248 female, 212 male). Of the 460 staff it seems 290 are permanent and 170 are temp and that by June 2022 nearly all will be permanent totalling 420!?
ReplyDelete165 (36%) staff are in Digital Strategy. What does that mean? Surely that doesn’t mean they are all involved in developing strategies! Maybe they are involved in implementing ‘THE’ Digital Strategy!
Probably one to hold the lightbulb and 459 to turn the building
ReplyDelete7:48pm – Best comment ever
ReplyDeleteAgree , well played 7:48pm
ReplyDeleteI wonder how ADHA's workforce strategy fits in with initiatives like this:
ReplyDeleteDigital health project hopes to improve hospital decision-making
https://www.hospitalhealth.com.au/content/technology/news/digital-health-project-hopes-to-improve-hospital-decision-making-740752390
It looks to me as though the Digital Health CRC (DHCRC) and NSW are completely ignoring the ADHA. Not a surprise really.
Interesting how the CRC brands itself:
https://www.digitalhealthcrc.com/
"Smart. Connected. Transformative
Digital Health CRC is Australia’s leading organisation for digital health innovation and commercialisation
Why we exist
We exist to connect the ecosystem of industry, government, providers, consumers, academia and research to solve the most pressing healthcare challenges.
Focused on a sustainable impact on health outcomes and increased efficiencies, we identify, co-invest and support projects, accelerating the implementation of digital health technologies, underpinned by research-driven evidence."
The ADHA gets a mention as a "participant" along with 20 other Government agencies, 17 Academic institutions and 26 Industry bodies.
CRC is just an interface for Government and the research county, they do interesting work, like NEHTA much of it will be buried as it flies in the face of some thinking and agenda. The more interesting one to watch is Healthdirect which is forming up as a haven for ADHA drop-outs. All jobs for the mates type thing. Wonder what sort of transparency and process goes on around renemration and selection?
ReplyDeleteCombined CRC and Health Direct do pretty much what half of Nehta did, except combined they are twice the size and far more expensive.
Agree, Health Direct does appear to e transitioning a number of old ADHA fiefdoms. I am sure the tactic is to keep things separated- far easier to control.
ReplyDeletewhat you seem to be saying that Digital Health in Australia is about as useful as this government's plan for climate change? Just keep saying Technology! Technology! Technology! Technology! and hope a miracle happens.
ReplyDeleteThe government has three options:
1 Show leadership and do something really useful
2 Do nothing and hope for the best
3 Do something totally useless, get in everyone's way and make things worse
It's full steam ahead with #3 in both cases. In Digital Health it's MyHR, in climate change it's carbon capture and storage.