Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.
General Comment
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Really a quiet week with few surprises other than the seemingly ceaseless evidence free propaganda from the ADHA
Does anyone know what a Digital Health Ecosystem Animation is? I suspect a PowerPoint animation!
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Misleading VPR reforms will restrict equitable access to health care
By Dr Margaret Faux* & Dr Silvia Pfeiffer**
Monday, 04 April, 2022
From July this year, Australia’s MBS telehealth system is going to change once again, and this comes after two years of constantly evolving rules and regulations regarding the delivery of healthcare services in this country. In a few short months, the controversial new voluntary patient registration (VPR) laws will come into effect.
According to the 10 Year Health Plan, MBS telehealth will not be available to a patient unless they’re registered with the GP practice. In application, the reforms will extend the “existing relationship rule” GPs currently experience with telehealth consultations and a number of other healthcare arrangements. Although the new laws are described as ‘voluntary’, patients will be unable to access a doctor or seek medical treatment via telehealth unless they’re registered with the practice.
This leaves patients with no other option but to register, leading to industry concerns about practical compulsion in Australia’s healthcare system.
Here, we explore why Australia’s misleading new VPR reforms will restrict equitable access to healthcare and how this will hinder our nation’s healthcare outcomes.
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Gov't funds free access to online parenting resources to support children's mental wellbeing
More than six in 10 Australian parents said they are not confident in spotting signs of social or emotional problems in their children.
By Adam Ang
April 06, 2022 12:02 AM
Australian parents and caregivers will soon have free access to online resources to support their children's mental health and wellbeing.
The Australian government's latest A$40.6 million investment under the Parenting Education and Support grant is funding access to Triple P – Positive Parenting Program. Developed locally, the programme has been used by families in over 30 countries for over 40 years.
Triple P, which has been proven to work across cultures, socio-economic groups and in many family structures, provides parents and caregivers with a range of strategies for supporting children’s healthy development.
Those strategies include ways to create the best environment for a child’s development; addressing child behaviours, promoting new skills, and helping emotional self-regulation; raising happier, more confident and capable children; and improving your relationship as a family.
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https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/changes-needed-to-save-general-practice%E2%80%94the-budget-didnt-help/13825550
The changes needed to save general practice—and the Budget didn’t help
On Health Report with Dr Norman Swan
Download The changes needed to save general practice—and the Budget didn’t help (10.81 MB)
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Doctors, nurses and other health professionals look after you in the community, to keep you as healthy as you can be. But despite Australia's relative good health, compared to other countries, there are problems with general practice. By international standards we are probably overproducing medical graduates, but not enough of them go into general practice and certainly not enough into rural and regional areas. Structural changes to improve and extend the provision of health care for the community means discussion with all stakeholders.
Guest:
Dr Steve Hambleton
Chief Clinical
Adviser
Australian Digital Health Agency
Host: Dr Norman Swan
Producer: Diane Dean
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UTIs are becoming more deadly, thanks to AMR — CSIRO
Wednesday, 06 April, 2022
The spread of drug-resistant bacteria in the community is increasing the risk of death for common infections such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) — which affect around one in two women and one in 20 men in their lifetime. This is according to a new study led by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO.
The collaborative research project, involving QUT and the University of Queensland, analysed data from 21,268 patients across 134 Queensland hospitals who acquired their infections in the community. It found patients were almost two and a half times more likely to die from community acquired drug-resistant UTIs caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and more than three times more likely to die from community acquired drug-resistant blood stream infections caused by Enterobacteriaceae than those with drug-sensitive infections.
CSIRO research scientist Dr Teresa Wozniak said the high prevalence of UTIs makes them a major contributor to antibiotic use in Australia. Our study found patients who contracted drug-resistant UTIs in the community were more than twice as likely to die from the infection in hospital compared to those without resistant bacteria, Dr Wozniak said.
“Without effective antibiotics, many standard medical procedures and life-saving surgeries will becoming increasingly life-threatening.
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ADHA - Software Developer Community
Announcement
Discontinuation of TLS 1.1 access to Verizon certificates-australia websites
NOTE
DATE CHANGE:
The upgrade will now take place on Saturday 25 June 2022.
Verizon Australia is a third party organisation who manages the issuance of both Medicare and NASH PKI certificates that are used by Healthcare Organisations to undertake electronic business with Services Australia.
Verizon have notified Services Australia that they must make an upgrade to the Transport Layer Security that’s used on their website www.certificates-australia.com.au from TLS1.1 to TLS1.2. As noted above, the upgrade will now take place on Saturday 25 June 2022.
Software vendors who are currently using TLS1.1 will need to upgrade to TLS1.2 to avoid any impact.
Who does this affect?
All systems that use NASH or Services Australia (Medicare) PKI certificates, that have also been hardcoded to use TLS 1.1, or are running on Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 or earlier.
These systems may experience issues with the following digital health services:
- The My Health Record B2B gateway
- The Healthcare Identifiers service
- Electronic Prescribing
- Secure Messaging
- Medicare-related services
- Any other use of the NASH or Services Australia (Medicare) PKI
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https://marketplace.service.gov.au/2/digital-marketplace/opportunities/20509
Australian Digital Health Agency
Digital Health Ecosystem Animation Project
Opportunity Type
Professional Services and Consulting (Seek proposals and quotes)
Opportunity ID 20509
Deadline for asking questions Friday 8 April 2022 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Application closing date Tuesday 12 April 2022 at 6pm (in Canberra)
Published Tuesday 5 April 2022
Panel category Marketing, Communications and Engagement
Overview
We need up to 10 individual animations using the digital health ecosystem architecture (currently in development) and extended as needs be. These animations will demonstrate interactions with the health ecosystem to solve specific problems impacting the healthcare system and how each project or solution will resolve it. Projects include (but are not limited to: 1. Health Information Gateway 2. Electronic referral solution for diagnostic imaging 3. Electronic referral solution for pathology (more information available on award of contract) 4. Interoperability 5. Aged Care (more information available on award of contract) 6. Pregnancy and child digital health 7. Provider Connect Australia 8. Cancer Screening Register integration to My Health Record We will also need at least one 60 second animation which brings the full picture of the infrastructure and problems together to demonstrate an overarching position on how the various components will work together. Refer attached Request for Quotation for further details.
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Alcidion Investor Update
From new partnerships, to extensions of agreements, we are
extremely pleased with the momentum of deals which have been finalised by our
team in recent weeks. For those who may have missed Alcidion news over the last
month, please find details of our most recent contract wins:
NHS Tayside signs five-year agreement to deploy Miya
Observations
Herefordshire & Worcestershire NHS Trust procures Miya Flow
Dartford and Gravesham expand upon existing Miya Precision
contract
First two renewals for Silverlink PCS solution signed
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust signs 5 year Miya Flow
contract
For further information, please contact:
Alcidion Investor Relations
P: +61 3 8060 6177
investor@alcidion.com
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Soon-to-rise digital hospital Weststate Private picks Rauland for nurse call system, bedside terminal
The fully digitised health facility in Queensland is slated to open in early 2023.
By Adam Ang
April 04, 2022 11:38 PM
Health IT provider Rauland Australia has been chosen to deliver its nurse call system and patient engagement solutions to the soon-to-open Weststate Private Hospital in Queensland.
The A$60.5 million fully digitised hospital will be equipped with Rauland's Concentric Care platform comprising the Responder Nurse Call with associated clinical workflow, Concierge Patient Engagement, and Master Clock solutions.
The Responder nurse call system, according to Rauland, enhances communication flow to increase accuracy and reduce response time, errors, and wasted effort. It gathers data seamlessly for convenient decision making. It also features fall reduction management to improve patient safety.
The Concierge platform provides access to entertainment, phone and internet services via the bedside HiMed Cockpit. It also enables access to the patient's care plan, test results, and medical records.
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Monday, 04 April 2022 12:22
Bendigo Hospital undergoes pressure injury prevention trials with ‘world first’ Lenexa Medical device
By Staff Writer
Bendigo Hospital in regional Victoria is trialing a “world first” medical device - the Medical Quality-of-Care Pressure Injury Management System - from Australian medtech company Lenexa Medical.
The device, which is being developed in Australia, is a fabric-based sensor which assists clinicians by providing targeted real time monitoring for patient position to enable personalised pressure injury prevention.
“Pressure injuries (PIs) are mostly preventable, however they remain a devastating complication for patients in hospital and aged care settings, particularly where a person is immobile for a prolonged period,” notes Lenexa.
“When a pressure injury advances to a deep wound, it can become life threatening or even fatal. This global issue has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and, according to the most recent research published in The International Journal of Nursing Studies, is costing the health system billions of dollars each year.
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https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/601115/Dispatch-from-Digital-Health-Conference-2022.htm
Dispatch from Digital Health Conference 2022
Sunday, 3 April 2022
NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth
This is a brief summary of three
presentations from the HiNZ Digital Health Conference 2022. If you are
registered for the conference, you can watch presentations on-demand
until May 31.
ePrescribing reduces errors at Counties Manukau Health
The implementation of ePrescribing at Counties Manukau Health greatly reduced
procedural prescribing errors in surgical and medical wards.
Dhairesh Patel, eMedicines management lead pharmacist at CMDHB, presented on
the impact of ePrescribing on Adverse Drug Events and prescribing error rates,
at the Digital Health Conference.
The DHB implemented MedChart for inpatient electronic prescribing starting in
2018 in the Spinal Unit and finishing phase four in long-stay mental health in
2021. More than 3000 beds are now live with the system.
Patel said an evaluation of the implementation showed a reduction in total
prescribing errors per admission in both medical and surgical wards.
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https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/601111/Waitemata-patients-book-outpatient-appointments-online.htm
Waitematā patients book outpatient appointments online
Sunday, 3 April 2022
NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth
Waitematā DHB has introduced an
online service for cardiology patients to book and manage their clinic
appointments and is rolling it out across the DHB this year.
The new system, delivered by Aceso and built on Pinga by Sorsix, allows patient
to book, reschedule and cancel their outpatient appointments online and
Waitematā is the first DHB to use it in New Zealand.
The DHB is already offering the service for cardiology clinics and is planning
a staged wider roll-out between April and December 2022 across most outpatient
clinics.
Dale Bramley, Waitematā DHB chief executive, says the solution is an example
of the organisation realising its ‘better, best, brilliant’ organisational
value.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/senate-inquiry-calls-for-gov-to-wind-up-covidsafe-app-578473
Senate inquiry calls for gov to wind up COVIDSafe app
By Justin Hendry on Apr 8, 2022 6:40AM
"Cease any further expenditure".
The federal government should cease all funding from its troubled COVIDSafe contact tracing app, a Labor-led senate committee has found.
The finding is contained in the final report from a senate inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic, which has also called for greater data sharing between governments.
The report [pdf], released on Thursday afternoon, said COVIDSafe had been “roundly criticised for its high cost and significant limitations as a practical measure for contact tracing”.
It cites reports the app was not used by state governments during the Delta outbreak last year, and a study showing it detected only 17 contacts not identified through other means in NSW during 2020.
The committee said the government had also failed to provide an update on how many additional contacts had been identified and suggested it was a state government responsibility.
Other concerns raised during the inquiry went to the app’s “reliance on Bluetooth... as an effective proxy for close contacts” and “parameters that fail to account for Covid-19 variants”.
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Senate committee calls for funding of failed COVIDSafe app to be dropped
From May to November 2020, the COVIDSafe app chipped in 0.1% of all close contact detections in New South Wales.
Written by Campbell Kwan, Journalist
on April 7, 2022 | Topic: Government: AU
Australia's COVIDSafe app, which was initially likened to digital sunscreen by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, has been slammed by the Senate committee tasked with reviewing the federal government's pandemic response.
"By not recognising the app's faults, or seeking to fix the app, the government has continued to oversee an application which is not fit for its intended purpose, has cost millions of dollars, and offered limited public value," the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 said in its final report.
The entire committee, except for one Coalition member, supported this view.
This finding was made as a study conducted by the committee, which concluded in February, found the use of COVIDSafe in New South Wales between May and November 2020 detected only 17 additional close contacts that had not already been identified through conventional contact tracing methods.
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https://www.seek.com.au/job/56561901?type=standout
Digital Health Educator
Overview
The successful candidate will have knowledge of Electronic Prescribing, My
Health Record and Secure Messaging or demonstrated ability to rapidly acquire
this knowledge.
Requirements:
- Previous experience in working with health clinicians and understanding of use of clinical information systems.
- Previous experience in delivering change management within the health sector.
- Lead education and change management activities for the adoption of My Health Record; providing regular digital health priority ‘train the trainer’ education, training and updates for primary healthcare sectors, jurisdictional and Indigenous Health delivery partners.
- Create, manage and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to drive the use of key digital health technologies including, My Health Record, Electronic Prescribing, Medicines Safety and Secure Messaging.
- Aid and support to stakeholders to resolve technical and useability issues; escalating relevant problems to help centre or software providers
- Coordinate internal resources and external providers in the development of online resources; taking responsibility for the implementation, testing, evaluation, and on-going maintenance of allocated online resources; including version control and currency of documents and information.
- Lead user testing cycle and ensure compatibility with mobile devices, tablets, and PCs.
- Lead education and change management activities for the adoption of My Health Record; providing regular digital health priority ‘train the trainer’ education, training and updates for primary healthcare sectors, jurisdictional and Indigenous Health delivery partners.
- Work collaboratively with content writers, external providers, and Clinical Reference Leads to ensure digital health education resources are fit for purpose and meet quality standards.
- Manage all stages of online resource development projects including the development of timelines, engaging relevant staff, key stakeholders and third-party providers as required, review and analysis of proposed content and development of project briefs for approval
- Create, manage and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to drive the use of key digital health technologies including, My Health Record, Electronic Prescribing, Medicines Safety and Secure Messaging.
- Represent the Agency; providing support to stakeholders and end-users through complex change; gathering their requirements and training needs; listening to their concerns, negotiating, and providing advice on training.
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https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/careers/project-officer-25042022
Project Officer
APS5
($90,901 - $98,303)
Digital
Strategy Division > Administration
Brisbane,
Canberra, Sydney
Closing - 25 Apr 2022
Division Overview
Digital
Strategy – responsible for national digital health design and strategy,
underpinned by strong clinical
governance and digital health standards.
Primary Purpose of Position
The APS5 Project Officer is accountable under limited direction to perform moderately complex to complex work that assists, supports, and enables project activities across identified work areas within the Agency. They will organise their workflow and making independent decisions relating to an area of responsibility within a project including the interpretation and application of the Agency’s project management policies, framework and procedures.
The APS5 Project Officer will have considerable stakeholder management and will be responsible for working with key internal and external stakeholders to understand, negotiate and resolve moderately complex to complex arising within a project.
Essential Requirements
Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance at a level designated by the Agency on request. Ability to obtain and maintain national police check. Australian Citizenship is a condition of eligibility.
Qualifications
Tertiary Qualifications in health or project management are desirable.
Download the Position Description (PDF, 223.32 KB)
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https://www.seek.com.au/job/56570355?type=standout
Project Officer
Australian Digital Health Agency
Sydney CBD, Inner West & Eastern Suburbs
Government - Federal
$90,000 - $99,999 Full time
About the Agency
The Australian Digital Health Agency is responsible for national digital health services and systems, with a focus on engagement, innovation and clinical quality and safety. Our focus is on putting data and technology safely to work for patients, consumers and the healthcare professionals who look after them.
About the Role
The APS5 Project Offer is accountable under limited direction to perform moderately complex to complex work that assists, supports and enables project activities across identified work areas within the Agency. Working closely with key external and internal stakeholder to understand, negotiate and resolve project outcomes. The Project Officer will be required to:
- Work with other Project team members, stakeholders to understand project vision, relevant goals and how they relate to project delivery; applying a well-developed understanding of the Agency’s project management framework, methodologies and activities required to assist and support the Agency’s project and reporting requirements.
- Assist and support an Agency’s project activities to ensure that they are compliant with the assurance and governance processes for policy, security, clinical safety, and design; monitoring progress, gathering information to produce monthly project status reports and other key projects documentation.
- Coordinate and provide assistance to project managers and project team leaders to develop and maintain project risk and issue registers; identifying and reporting variances and issues; providing assistance and coordination for risk mitigation, response and treatment actions.
- Contribute and provide support to monitor, track and report on the status of project deliverables to ensure schedules, cost and quality metrics are in line with approved project plans. Participate in the implementation of work plans and the setting of tasks and priorities to progress project outcomes, changes and enhancements; ensuring resource availability and allocation is identified.
- Work with project delivery teams to track progress and compliance against the requirements contained in detailed program, project, governance, communication and reporting plans.
- Maintain awareness of the mid and longer-term project outcomes; supporting the adjustment of work priorities for any changes directed by the project manager that are made to be in line with changes to Agency priorities.
- Work independently or under limited guidance in relation to their area of responsibility within a project; ensuring established Agency project priorities, framework and methodologies to deliver quality outcomes ensuring project tools, templates and processes are adhered to. Make decisions; taking direction from project managers on issues that concern a variety of project activities that affect own work area and may affect the project.
- Identify problems or issues to make decisions that involve moderately complex to complex activities with area of responsibility; selecting the appropriate course of action.
- Tertiary Qualifications in health or project management are desirable.
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https://www.seek.com.au/job/56582675?type=standard
Health Educator - Indigenous Affirmative
empire group
Brisbane
Education & Training
We are currently partnering with a Federal Government agency
to recruit an Indigenous Health Educator for a 12 + 12 + 12 Month Contract -
This role can be based in any state!
The Role
You'll be working within the Training, Learning and Development division and
will be responsible for leading the education and change management activities
for the adoption of My Health Record within the Australian Digital Health
Agency.
- Lead education and change management activities for the adoption of My Health Record
- providing regular digital health priority 'train the trainer' education, training and updates for primary healthcare sectors, jurisdictional and Indigenous Health delivery partners
- Provide assistance and support to stakeholders to resolve technical and useability issue
- Drive and support locally tailored approaches to external provider education and adoption activities ensuring Agency-led projects and new product releases are coordinated and supported
- Coordinate internal resources and external providers in the development of online resources
- Responsible for the implementation, testing, evaluation and on-going maintenance of allocated online resources
- Manage all stages of online resource development projects including the development of timelines, engaging relevant staff, key stakeholders and third-party providers as required
- Create, manage and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to drive the use of key digital health technologies including, My Health Record, Electronic Prescribing, Medicines Safety and Secure Messaging
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ADHA Resources For Providers
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/healthcare-providers
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Thursday, 07 April 2022 09:00
Telstra turns on SMS scam filter to block millions of unwanted messages
Telstra has switched on a brand-new SMS scam filter to better protect its customers from scam text messages, blocking them at a network level before they reach devices.
Outgoing Telstra CEO Andy Penn made the announcement today, stating "we know the number of scam text messages on our network is on the rise - in 2021 we had more than 11,000 reports of malicious texts to Android devices compared to 50 reports in 2020."
Penn says this is why the company has turned on a feature to find and block SMS scam messages with suspicious links as they travel across the network, and stop as many as possible from reaching mobile devices while at the same time protecting legitimate messages such as commercial messages from banks, governments, emergency alerts, and even Telstra messages like MessageBank notifications.
Telstra has trialled the tech for three months across 2,500 employees and says it was successful in detecting and blocking hundreds of scam SMS messages each and every day.
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Friday, 08 April 2022 11:08
NBN urges Queensland and New South Wales customers to sign for flood relief funding
NBN encourages Queensland and New South Wales customers who have been affected by the recent floods to sign up and leverage the company’s flood relief funding.
The past months saw communities in Queensland and New South Wales hit by floods. As such, homes and businesses that have experienced outages on the NBN network may now request financial relief directly through their phone and internet provider.
NBN’s flood relief funding worth $6 million will be available to providers and to their customers.
Phone and internet providers who experienced disruption for more than 24 hours can apply.
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David.
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