It Is About Time We Saw Just How Much The ADHA Has Cleaned Up Its Game.

This appeared last week:

Govt’s $1.3 billion manufacturing grants shortlisted for audit

Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

11 April 2022

The administration of $1.3 billion in grants from the Coalition’s flagship manufacturing program could come under the audit office’s microscope after being listed as a potential investigation next year, alongside several government technology projects.

Other programs shortlisted on the ANAO’s work program include the $450 million Digital ID scheme, the Tax Office’s business register modernisation, and the panel arrangements that help consultants land lucrative government contracts, as have areas of privacy and data protections in government digital services, cybersecurity, and digital health.

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Stakeholders have been asked to provide feedback on the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) draft work program by 19 April.

The Australian Digital Health Agency’s “delivery of a safe, secure and reliable digital health system” also faces an audit after a challenging roll out of its major patient record system My Health Record, which was controversially swapped to opt out.

The audit office has already investigated the roll out in 2019 and made several recommendations. A second audit would examine the progress of the agency’s response as part of a wider probe on a the Australian Digital Health Agency’s “management of controls contributing to the delivery of a safe, secure and reliable digital health system”.

Management of cybersecurity, privacy protection in digital service delivery, and the management of customer information and data have also been added to the draft work program.

Here is the link:

https://www.innovationaus.com/govts-1-3-billion-manufacturing-grants-shortlisted-for-audit-office-probe/

I have to say it looks to me that this new audit may be able to poke about widely and really ask just how well the ADHA is doing with its core function of “contributing to the delivery of a safe, secure and reliable digital health system”.

Time will tell I guess but it would also be fun to see how close the ADHA is addressing the findings of the 2019 Audit.

Stand by!

David.