I noticed these two ads just a day or so apart. First we had this:
Current ATM View - RFT_DH4303
Digital Health Expert Advisors
Email Address:
RFQ_TResponses@digitalhealth.gov.au
ATM ID: RFT_DH4303
Agency: Australian Digital Health Agency
Category: 85100000 - Comprehensive health services
Close Date & Time:
19-Sep-2022 2:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
Publish Date: 23-Aug-2022
ATM Type: Request for Tender
Description:
The Digital Health Expert Advisors panel are drawn from healthcare providers and administrators with digital health subject matter expertise from across the health sector. They are selected based on their current healthcare experience and their ability to apply their digital health expertise to the Agency’s products and services. Their strategic contribution is valuable to senior executives as well as program areas.
Panel members represent the Agency within the general community and in various local and national committees and promotional activities. The panel is a positive representation of engagement between the Agency and the healthcare provider community, advocating for the Agency, and the products and services we provide.
Other Instructions:
Please refer to the position description for the Digital Health Expert Advisor.
Conditions for Participation:
The Agency’s standard requirements are located within 10.3 of the RFT.
Timeframe for Delivery:
The resultant contract (if any) is expected to commence on Friday, 1 December 2022 and conclude at the end of your stated contract.
The resultant contract (if any) may also include two 12-month option to extend the resultant contract, with the written agreement of both parties before the resultant contract expires, at the discretion of the Agency.
Address for Lodgement:
AusTender Website (www.tenders.gov.au)
Here is the link for more details:
https://www.tenders.gov.au/Atm/Show/c75b229e-e5c1-4fbb-8484-f39316be4f07
And then this
Call for Expressions of Interest to be part of the AIDH Expert Advisory Groups
Aug 23, 2022 | Advocacy, Community of Practice, Expert Advisory Group, Shifting the Dial
Director of Leadership & Policy
As the Institute embarks on its new strategy to shift the dial on our nation’s transition to a digital health future, we’re asking for the support and involvement of our Fellows and members.
The first step in delivering Shifting the Dial is the establishment of our Expert Advisory Groups.
Expert Advisory Groups – or ‘EAGs’, will be the driving force behind the further development, continual refinement, and the delivery of the Shifting the Dial strategy.
The strategy has intentionally been kept high-level to allow AIDH Fellows and members – the pioneers and leaders within the digital health sector – shape its development and have genuine input into how we influence the future direction of Australia’s healthcare system.
How the Expert Advisory Groups will work
As the new mechanism for engaging expert Fellows and members in the Institute’s leadership and advocacy strategy, EAGs will serve as links between Fellows, experts, and the Institute, advising the CEO, and the Director Leadership and Policy on Shifting the Dial’s focus areas and priorities, and how to execute them.
Consistent with the pillars of Shifting the Dial, the three EAGs are:
- The Expert Advisory Group on Changing the business models of healthcare
- The Expert Advisory Group on Advancing the digital health workforce
- The Expert Advisory Group on Building trust and confidence in health and data
Changing the business models of healthcare
Governments and health professionals across the globe – from private industry to local communities – are assembling the critical mass to transform the way that we do healthcare. It’s time Australia joined them.
The EAG on changing the business models of healthcare will be charged with prompting, provoking, and leading the public discourse on change for a sustainable healthcare system, including system harmonisation and accessibility, consumer centricity and engagement, and even the possible need for a re-evaluation of healthcare delivery and funding models at their very foundational levels.
Advancing the digital health workforce
The healthcare workforce is the lifeblood of our healthcare system – and our healthcare system, is becoming increasingly digital.
Recognising that one day the ‘digital health workforce’ will just be ‘the healthcare workforce’, this EAG will tackle the vital need to increase digital skills and competencies amongst health workers, encourage digital health maturity, and address the ever important need to attract and retain more technology and data professionals into healthcare – professionals without whom Australia cannot tackle the immediate, medium, and long-term challenges troubling our healthcare system today.
Building trust and confidence in health and data
Ensuring the rights of consumers to their data is known and advocated for as a paradigm shift, and so is ensuring that that data is used to connect care, improve patient safety, and enhance the consumer experience.
This EAG will work on challenging the mindset of traditional system design to build trust between the consumer, the clinician, and the system as a necessary precursor for the strategic capture and use of data to inform care at the individual and population level – and as an asset in informing policy analysts and decision makers on the future directions of the health system.
Official call for Expressions of Interest
Expressions of interest are now open and will close at midnight on Sunday 4 September 2022.
Candidates can express their interest here.
Together, we can ensure that the digital health sector has a voice at the table, and that the expertise of our Fellows and members is duly heard and considered now and into the future.
Together, we can shift the dial on Australia’s transition to its digital health future.
Here is the link:
Fascinating that the hunt seems to
be on for Digital Health talent! Looks like you are all in demand!
David.
.... one day the 'digital health workforce' will just be the 'healthcare workforce' ...
ReplyDeleteDavid, how would you interpret this? Does it include doctors, nurses and allied health? What precisely are they trying too say?
It’s just marketing fluff I would not get to caught up in the little white lines. The intent is good, there need to be an improvement in what is termed “digital literacy”. An ability to get a level of understanding can only help with the design and adoption of digital technologies in healthcare which then help organisations get value for the investments made.
ReplyDeleteIt does not solve the biggest issue facing healthcare but it does help.
Agree Rachel. Good to see activity in this area. Wonder if they ever ask themselves why so many distance themselves from these organisations? At a star and private health IT there are shortages but in par with other IT sectors. The focus needs to be on product implementation. What ADHA ADIh and other do is interesting but not the relevant.
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