This turned up by e-mail a few days ago – sadly no direct link I could see.
Upcoming ANDHealth Report – The Awakening Giant: The Rise of Australia's Evidence-Based Digital Health Sector
We are proud to announce the upcoming release of our new report – The Awakening Giant: The Rise of Australia’s Evidence-Based Digital Health Sector. Following on from our 2020 report, Sleeping Giant, The Awakening Giant tells the story of a fast-growing, emerging and innovation-driven sector with detailed insights from the industry.
Digital Health: The Sleeping Giant of Australia’s Health Technology Industry, published in July 2020, showcased the potential of the digital health sector to drive our economy and healthcare system into the future. Since then, Australia’s digital health industry has evolved, expanded and matured, which we have seen first-hand as the number of companies supported by ANDHealth has grown from 300 to more than 600. The Awakening Giant uses insights and data from our growing pipeline to demonstrate the rise of Australia's evidence-based digital health sector.
The Awakening Giant: The Rise of Australia’s Evidence-Based Digital Health Sector will be released on Wednesday 19 October 2022.
Read our Sleeping Giant 2020 Report
This roughly 40 page report can already be read at the link above and is a really great effort in dragging a lot of diverse activities together!
A mandatory read IMVHO. Thanks ANDHealth!
Comments welcome.
David.
From the exec summary
ReplyDelete"Publicly funded infrastructure and capabilities such as the Australian Digital Health Agency’s MyHealthRecord, the Digital Health CRC and substantial State-led initiatives have created the
necessary infrastructure upon which digital medicine and digital therapeutics companies can begin to build patient facing interventions to substantially improve patient care and outcomes."
Oh dear, another misinterpretation of reality. MyHealthRecord is not infrastructure, it's a crippled app.
It was supposed to be built upon infrastructure such as NASH and interoperability, neither of which have been delivered as promised.
It rather devalues the rest of the document, which uses "potential" over 30 times.
It's little more than a sales pitch aimed at boosting technology companies.
And I wonder if this is a veiled criticism of NEHTA/ADHA:
"What it also illustrates is that digital health is the sleeping giant of the Australian health technology sector, which, if awakened, will achieve the triple aim of economic growth through high-value STEM-based job creation, increased advanced manufacturing and clinical trials activity, and sovereign health system capability and resilience."
So much for the National Digital Health Strategy and the plan for action. Asleep at the wheel?
So what has MyHR or Digital Health, that sleeping giant, ever done for GPs?
ReplyDeleteNever mind medicine and healthcare, which are difficult, how about something simpler - paperwork and admin?
Seems not.
You’re not imagining it: GP admin burden is growing
https://medicalrepublic.com.au/youre-not-imagining-it-gp-admin-burden-is-growing/78544
Is Digital Health really making healthcare better? For patients and healthcare providers?
Seems not.
Interesting paper David thanks for posting, the detail is right for the level it is intended to be and the audience intended.
ReplyDeleteI do agree some of the language is a bit toss and distracts.
The commentator who states MyHR was to be built on infrastructure like NASH and interoperability - interoperability is not an infrastructure- it is an outcome from which infrastructures play a role. It’s similar to people thinking cloud is a technology
"interoperability is not an infrastructure - it is an outcome from which infrastructures play a role" could you translate that into English please?
ReplyDeleteInteroperability may or may not be viewed as infrastructure, but the facts still remains that interoperability has not been achieved and MyHR is definitely not infrastructure.
October 07, 2022 10:04 AM Interoperability not being infrastructure seems pretty plainly explained. Unless you are using infrastructure in a broad sense - as it not a IT capability. If you are then it could be a good conversation.
ReplyDeleteMy take would be all spin and no substance. Anyone wanting to build on top of My Health Record is clearly clueless and the impression I get is a argument for government funding. If you are so confident please fund it yourself. The list of sponsors suggests they are just angling for government handouts, which usually seem to be consumed with no published results.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago $60M was allocated to projects and I remember a division getting $3M without any history of past IT projects and they were never heard of again. Its a racket to extract taxpayers $ with the main investment in glossy PDFs and pandering the the health department with no substance! Business as usual.
I completely agree with you Andrew. It's such a pity David seems to be very impressed, perhaps he needs to rethink his position. I mean it seems ANDHEALTH has cranked up its "support" from 300 to 600 companies!! Hullo!! Is this the measure of 'goodness' he has used. I mean really, if David is impressed then the government will be super impressed and open the money tap accordingly.
ReplyDeleteHang on people!
ReplyDeleteMy point with this was that "I" was not aware all this activity was underway with such a wide range of things happening. Others may know all about it - but I didn't!
I do not agree with all the points made or how things are being done - but at least some are giving it a go - more than I knew!
David.
I think is reflects the brand damage done to many of the organisations by inderviduals over the years as they bounce around them in small packs.
ReplyDelete