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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This week it is all about your and my data being spurted all over the place by Government and corporates. It is a huge mess and will need real work from all to sort out!
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Australian Institute of Company Directors launches first steps towards cyber security regulation
11:01PM October 20, 2022
The Australian Institute of Company Directors has taken the first steps towards introducing regulation around cyber security, following recent hacking attacks on Medibank and Optus, along with the theft of millions of customers’ sensitive data.
More than a year after Telstra’s venture capital arm warned that company directors must step up to protect Australians against cyber attacks, the AICD has drafted five voluntary principles to help boards shore-up digital security.
The initiative comes as Medibank revealed that a group of hackers is demanding a ransom after claiming to have stolen 200GB of customer data, including health claims data and Medicare numbers.
The health insurer – Australia’s biggest with more than 3.9 million members – assured customers as late as Monday that there was no evidence their data had been stolen in last week’s attacks. It now expects the fallout to grow as investigation continues.
Cyber Security Minister Clare O’Neill warned of “irreparable harm”, following the theft of health records in Medibank’s breach, which she branded a “dog act”.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2022 09:27
Telco complaints decline but still remain high: ACMA
Telco complaints per 10,000 services decreased by 7.9% in 2021-2022, according to figures provided by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
The data showed telcos resolved complaints nearly five days faster on average compared to the previous financial year.
Complaints that required the intervention of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) declined by 33%.
ACMA also noted that 3% fewer complaints escalated to the TIO compared to 2020-2021.
While the downward trend shows improvement, complaints remain high at over one million per year, according to ACMA chair Nerida O’Loughlin.
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Plan to support digital capability in health workforce
Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
Digital health is transforming the way that many patients manage their health and experience health care, and it is driving change in the delivery of health services.
The Capability Action Plan (CAP) is designed to support Australia’s health workforce to continue to develop the skills they need in order to deliver the best care for Australians in an increasingly digital world. It sets out priority actions that are required across the workforce to respond to the needs of consumers now and in the future.
The CAP is a collaboration between the Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) in partnership with key stakeholders from across the health ecosystem.
Under the CAP, the Agency and AIDH will work together over the next two years to support healthcare workers to deliver virtual and connected care to Australians. This will be achieved by equipping them with the tools and capabilities they need to operate as effectively as possible in this rapidly evolving environment.
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https://www.miragenews.com/new-plan-to-deliver-digital-health-capability-875699/
17 Oct 2022 10:40 am AEDT
New plan to deliver digital health capability across health workforce to respond to needs of consumers now and
Australian Digital Health Agency
Australia’s health system faces many challenges, including an ageing population, increasing consumer expectations and continuing pressures on Australia’s health workforce.
In the face of these challenges, digital health is transforming the way that many patients manage their health and experience healthcare and driving a step change in the delivery of health services.
The Capability Action Plan (CAP) – designed to support Australia’s health workforce to continue to develop the skills they need to deliver the best care for Australians in an increasingly digital world -sets out priority actions that are required across the workforce to respond to the needs of consumers, now and in the future.
The CAP is a collaboration between the Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) in partnership with key stakeholders from across the health ecosystem. Under the CAP the Agency and AIDH will work together over the next two years to support healthcare workers to deliver virtual and connected care to Australians by equipping them with the tools and capabilities that they need to operate as effectively as possible in this rapidly evolving environment.
Agency CEO Amanda Cattermole said “across the health sector concerted action is required to build the capability of the workforce so that the benefits of digital health are realised for more patients in more settings. Workforce strategy development and planning requires consultation, including with professional colleges, universities and educators and employers in the public and private sectors. Coordination of effort is also vital, and the AIDH, with its strong existing knowledge, relationships and independence in this area, is well positioned to take on this role.”
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/australian-digital-health-agency-targets-tech-skills-586547
Australian Digital Health Agency targets tech skills
By Richard Chirgwin on Oct 17, 2022 12:20PM
But strategy doesn't address barriers such as system fragmentation.
Australia’s health workforce will become better trained in digital skills, under a strategy released today by the Australian Digital Health Agency.
The National Digital Health Capability Action Plan was put together in collaboration with the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
“Across the health sector, concerted action is required to build the capability of the workforce so that the benefits of digital health are realised for more patients in more settings," ADHA CEO Amanda Cattermole said in a statement.
“Workforce strategy development and planning requires consultation, including with professional colleges, universities and educators and employers in the public and private sectors.
“Coordination of effort is also vital, and the AIDH, with its strong existing knowledge, relationships and independence in this area, is well positioned to take on this role.”
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Australia announces plan to build healthcare workforce's digital health capability
To be carried out over the next two years, the plan seeks to equip health workers with skills in delivering virtual care.
By Adam Ang
October 17, 2022 04:18 AM
The Australian Digital Health Agency is collaborating with the Australasian Institute of Digital Health to build the capability of the healthcare workforce in digital health.
The agency has released its Capability Action Plan, which sets out priority actions that are necessary to achieve this.
Over the next two years, the organisations will engage health workers to work towards "standard capability frameworks, guidelines, resources and tools identified through previous work, planning, and ongoing sector consultation to equip Australia’s health workforce for a connected, digitally-enabled future."
WHY IT MATTERS
The ADHA came up with the plan as it acknowledges digital health as the way to resolve mounting challenges posed by an ageing population, increasing consumer demands, and pressures on the health workforce.
It noted that a digitally capable health workforce will deliver an improved ability to diagnose, treat and manage health conditions; reduce clinical risk; and enhance patient flow and sharing of information throughout the health system, among other identified benefits.
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https://www.dayhospitalsaustralia.net.au/national-digital-health-capability-action-plan/
National Digital Health Capability Action Plan
20th October 2022
The National Digital Health Capability Action Plan (CAP) is a collaboration between the Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) and the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH) in partnership with key stakeholders from across the health ecosystem.
It has been developed to support Australia’s health workforce to continue to develop the skills they need to deliver the best care for Australians in an increasingly digital world. The CAP sets out priority actions that are required across the workforce to respond to the needs of consumers, now and in the future.
The CAP can be found at digitalhealth.gov.au/about-us/strategies-and-plans, is a two-year program of work that sets out capability frameworks, guidelines, resources and tools identified through previous work, planning, and ongoing sector consultation to equip Australia’s health workforce for a connected, digitally-enabled future.
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Online wine seller Vinomofo suffers major data breach
October 18, 2022 — 8.57am
Online wine seller Vinomofo has disclosed a major data breach in which an intruder accessed customers’ personal information including names, dates of birth, addresses and contact details.
In a statement posted online, Vinomofo said the intruder accessed a database on a testing platform that was not linked to its primary website. It nonetheless contained real customer information.
Online wine seller Vinomofo has suffered a major hack after real customer information was included on a test platform.
In emails to customers seen by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Vinomofo said it had secured its systems, engaged a cybersecurity firm to investigate and claimed the risk to customers from the exposure of their information was “low”.
“Vinomofo does not hold identity or financial data such as passports, drivers’ licences or credit cards/bank details,” it said in its online statement. “While the investigation established no passwords, identity documents or financial information were accessed, the database includes other information about customers and members.”
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https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/619681/Data-stolen-in-Pinnacle-attack-posted-online.htm
Data stolen in Pinnacle attack posted online
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
NEWS - eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth
Information stolen from Pinnacle Midlands Health Network's
IT platform, including individual screening and immunisation data, has been
uploaded to the dark web by cyber criminals.
The information and data relates to past and present patients and customers of
the Pinnacle group in the Waikato, Lakes, Taranaki and Tairāwhiti districts. It
also includes Primary Health Care Ltd practices from across Taranaki, Rotorua,
Taupō-Tūrangi, Thames-Coromandel and Waikato.
Pinnacle Health suffered a cyber-attack on Wednesday 28 September. A statement
from the Network says malicious actors accessed a third-party IT server, and
the affected IT was immediately taken offline and contained.
Justin Butcher, chief executive of Pinnacle Incorporated, says much of the
information and data that was stolen has since been made public.
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Roundup: Latrobe Regional Hospital turns to VR training and more briefs
Also, the New Zealand Ministry of Health reported an undercount of reported COVID-19 hospitalisations since the start of the pandemic.
By Adam Ang
October 21, 2022 01:19 AM
Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR
Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training.
"This partnership means we will be able to rapidly increase skill level, knowledge and familiarity with clinical procedures, and improve standards of care for patients," said Kylie Larkin, medical education officer at LRH.
It will also allow the predominantly training hospital to broaden its medical training offering, the officer added.
Additionally, the hospital has set up an online internal booking system to allow its staff to book training sessions at their most convenient time.
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https://www.innovationaus.com/medical-imaging-platform-wins-aiias-startup-of-the-year-iaward/
Medical imaging platform wins AIIA’s Startup of the Year iAward
James
Riley
Editorial Director
21 October 2022
A cloud-based medical imaging startup from Canberra has been named Startup of the Year at the Australian Information Industry Association’s annual iAwards program.
Aurabox was founded by chief executive Chaturica Athukorala and chief technology officer Christopher Skene in 2021 as a patient-centric diagnostic platform that gives doctors a single point of access to important patient information, including a complete medical imaging history.
The Startup of the Year award was one of ten categories announced as part of the 29th edition of the annual iAwards gala.
Other winners included a Government and Public Sector Solution of the Year award to the Women and Children’s Hospital in South Australia for its Child and Adolescent Virtual Urgent Care Service, while procurement outfit ProcurePro won technology Platform Solution of the Year.
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Friday, 14 October 2022 12:26
Medibank Group latest to feel icy hand of network attackers
By Sam Varghese
Medical insurer Medibank Group says it has isolated some customer-facing systems following the discovery of a breach of its systems.
The company provides private health insurance and health services to more than 3.9 million people in Australia.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the company said it had called in specialised security firms after detecting what it characterised as "unusual activity" on its network.
It said that at this stage there was no indication of any sensitive data having leaked.
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Medibank says no evidence customer data accessed in ransomware attack
By Colin Kruger
October 17, 2022 — 10.47am
Australia’s largest private health insurer Medibank Private said ongoing investigations have yet to produce evidence that its customer data had been accessed or removed from the network as a result of last week’s incident which had the characteristics of a ransomware attack.
Medibank said its investigations are continuing into the unusual activity, as its shares began trading for the first time since it reported the incident last Thursday.
“We took the necessary precautions to protect the data of our customers, people and other stakeholders, and we will continue to do so,” Medibank chief executive, David Koczkar, said.
The health insurer said that ongoing investigations “continue to show there remains no evidence customer data has been removed from its IT environment, after it detected unusual activity last week in part of its IT network.”
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/medibank-detected-ransomware-precursor-activity-586566
Medibank detected ransomware 'precursor' activity
By Kate Weber on Oct 17, 2022 3:47PM
Suspects a set of compromised credentials was used in attack.
Medibank has provided more details of a cyber incident last week, saying it detected precursor activity consistent with a ransomware attack.
CEO David Koczkar said no customer data was taken and that the insurer had since brought its customer-facing systems back online. It had taken some systems offline immediately after monitoring systems detected the “unusual activity”.
“We have contained the ransomware threat but remain vigilant and will take the necessary steps in the future to protect our operations and customer data," Koczkar said.
In a brief chronology of events, Medibank said it first detected “unusual activity” on its servers on Wednesday last week, leading its cyber security team to commence incident response, with the support of partners.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2022 06:58
Medibank says access to some systems restored after breach
By Sam Varghese
The Medibank Group, which announced on Thursday it had suffered a data breach, says it has now restored access to its ahm and international student policy systems.
In an update, the company said on Friday an investigation into the incident was still going on.
In its initial announcement, the company said it had isolated some customer-facing systems after it discovered a breach of its systems.
Medibank chief executive David Koczkar said: “We apologise for the disruption this incident caused some of our customers yesterday, but we have made good progress with our systems overnight.
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Cyberattackers demand ransom from Medibank
Ayesha de Kretser Senior Reporter
Updated Oct 19, 2022 – 5.20pm, first published at 5.18pm
Australia’s biggest health insurer Medibank says a group is now demanding a ransom for information hackers say they took from the company’s servers during a cyberattack last week.
Medibank chief executive David Koczkar has apologised to the company’s 3.8 million members just days after briefing analysts and stating that no customer information had been compromised or deleted from Medibank’s servers.
“Today Medibank has received messages from a group that wishes to negotiate with the company regarding their alleged removal of customer data,” the company said in a statement issued late on Wednesday.
“This is a new development and Medibank understands this news will cause concerns for customers and the protection of their data remains our priority. Medibank is working urgently to establish if the claim is true, although based on our ongoing forensic investigation we are treating the matter seriously at this time.”
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/medibanks-alleged-attackers-threaten-data-release-extortion-586705
Medibank's alleged attackers threaten data release, extortion
By Richard Chirgwin on Oct 20, 2022 6:50AM
Insurer enters trading halt.
Medibank has entered a trading halt after being contacted by a group claiming to have copied customer data.
The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported it had heard from the alleged attackers, who were threatening to release patient data from a “200 gigabyte” haul.
The threats included selling the data, or releasing information like diagnoses about the most prominent people found in the database.
In an market disclosure late yesterday, the health insurer said it was “a new development” that will “cause concerns for customers”.
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‘Immense harm’: Federal police investigating threat to sell Australians’ health data
By Nick Bonyhady and Colin Kruger
October 20, 2022 — 8.45am
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has warned Australians are at risk of “immense harm” if the health information allegedly stolen by hackers from Medibank Private, which counts about 4 million customers, becomes public.
The Australian Federal Police have begun an investigation into the ransom demand that Medibank received on Wednesday. It was also obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and contains a threat from the hackers to first target 1000 high-profile Australians with their own data as a warning.
O’Neil said all cybersecurity breaches, which typically involve the theft of names or financial information, were very concerning but the Medibank breach appeared worse.
“What we have here is information that’s held by this organisation, which is healthcare information and that just on its own being made public can cause immense harm to Australians,” said O’Neil, who is also the minister for cybersecurity. “And that’s why we are so engaged with this and trying to help Medibank [with] understanding what’s happened so we can repair it.”
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Medibank hackers threaten to release stolen health data in ransom demand
By Nick Bonyhady and Colin Kruger
October 19, 2022 — 4.55pm
Hackers claiming to have stolen reams of data from Medibank Private have threatened to sell confidential customer information, including sensitive health conditions and credit card details, unless the insurer pays it a ransom.
In a message obtained by this masthead, the hacking group claims to have stolen 200 gigabytes of sensitive information from Medibank, and threatens to contact its 1000 most prominent customers with their own personal information as a warning shot. This masthead was unable to verify the authenticity of the claims but in a response to questions on Wednesday afternoon, Medibank acknowledged it had received a threat and was taking it seriously.
The message to Medibank, obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, makes a series of ultimatums in broken English.
“We offer to start negotiations in another case we will start realizing our ideas like 1. Selling your Database to third parties 2. But before this we will take 1k most media persons from your database (criteria is: most followers, politicians, actors, bloggers, LGBT activists, drug addictive people, etc) Also we’ve found people with very interesting diagnoses. And we’ll email them their information.”
Medibank, which has 3.9 million customers, first disclosed the hack last week and initially said there was no evidence any sensitive customer data had been accessed. The purported threat to release sensitive customer information, including health records, represents a significant escalation in the recent wave of cyberattacks against Australian companies.
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Medibank mystery: Was a user credential all that was needed for hack?
John Davidson Columnist
Oct 21, 2022 – 5.41pm
Medibank Private has strengthened its staff login procedures following the theft of up to 200 gigabytes of ultra-sensitive customer data in a breach earlier this month, a well-placed source said.
The login procedures, which were already protected by a system known as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), will now make even more use of MFA, the source told AFR Weekend.
Medibank, Australia’s largest private health insurance company, had reported that compromised user credentials were to blame for the cyber intrusion on October 12, which Medibank initially said resulted in no data theft.
On Thursday, however, Medibank informed the ASX that at least some customer data had been stolen, including “the location of where a customer received medical services, and codes relating to their diagnosis and procedures”.
MFA is widely used to add a second and often third layer of protection to usernames and passwords, which when used in isolation are vulnerable to all sorts of attacks, from brute-force attacks to re-use attacks that exploit passwords that a given user is known to have used in another context.
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https://wildhealth.net.au/digital-pills-are-watching-you/
20 October 2022
Digital pills are watching you
By Fran Molloy
They are the ultimate in invasive surveillance: capsules containing digital sensors.
Dubbed ‘smart pills’ or ‘digital therapeutics’, they can track whether you’ve taken your medication, photograph your digestive tract and even measure the gas mix in your intestines.
Market researchers have tipped smart pill technology will spawn a global industry worth USD $7.5 billion by 2030.
That’s a brave prediction, particularly after lead player Proteus Digital, which investors valued at $1.5 billion in 2019 after nearly 20 years developing smart pill technology, was subject to a last-minute $15 million fire-sale to Otsuka Pharmaceuticals in 2020 after filing for bankruptcy.
Research and patent-filing around smart pills continues, however; a European study published in August assessing the global patent landscape for “digital pills with ingestible sensors” named Australia in the top five smart-pill patent holders worldwide, along with US, Canada, China and the European Patent Office.
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https://wildhealth.net.au/puzzle-app-may-pick-first-signs-of-dementia/
20 October 2022
Puzzle app may pick first signs of dementia
Picture this: you’re going travelling, and you’ve booked a tour. Maybe to Europe, or South America – the destination isn’t important.
What’s important is what happens when you meet your tour group.
You are introduced to four travel companions. You get a name, a face, and a fact. You are then asked to immediately recall elements of the interaction.
You are then asked to watch a mindfulness video to take your mind off things. And after that, you need to once again relay information about the group.
It sounds simple, but this situation can reveal important information about cognitive processes.
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ADHA - Software Developer Community
Announcement
My Health Record FHIR Gateway v2.2 Released
The Australian Digital Health Agency has updated the My Health Record FHIR Gateway specification.
Scope
This release updates the API specification, data mapping and error mapping to incorporate changes required to introduce a new API call service to retrieve XML based My Health Record views. The following end product and product component documents have been updated:
- My Health Record FHIR Gateway v2.2 (end product bundle)
- My Health Record FHIR Gateway – API Specification v2.2
- My Health Record FHIR Gateway – Data Mapping v2.2
- My Health Record FHIR Gateway – Error Mapping v2.2
Who does this affect?
New and existing software developers of mobile applications that will integrate with My Health Record.
More information
For a more detailed description of the changes, please refer to the My Health Record FHIR Gateway – Release Notes v2.2.
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https://medicalrepublic.com.au/telehealth-restriction-paused-for-covid-patients/79347
18 October 2022
Telehealth restriction paused for covid patients
By Holly Payne
The exemption to the existing relationship rule became uncertain when mandatory isolation orders were dropped.
Covid-positive patients will continue to be exempt from the 12-month existing relationship rule even when not required to isolate – until the end of the year, that is.
The measure allows people with an active covid infection to access MBS-funded telehealth even if they haven’t seen the provider face-to-face in the previous year.
Medicare’s existing relationship rule always made an exception for people in mandatory isolation or quarantine due to covid.
The problem came when states and territories ended the five-day isolation mandate last week and people simply ceased to be in mandatory isolation or quarantine due to covid.
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https://www.ama.com.au/media/ama-secures-telehealth-covid-patients
AMA secures telehealth for COVID patients
Published 18 October 2022
The Australian Medical Association welcomes the federal government's decision to extend telehealth access for patients with COVID, following talks with AMA last week.
When states and territories dropped public health orders last week requiring covid positive patients to self-isolate, many patients with COVID would have been unable to access MBS-funded telehealth services from a GP unless they had attended a face-to-face visit in the last 12 months.
While the AMA fully supports the provision of telehealth through a patient's usual GP or practice, it is important that rules do not prevent patients from accessing care when they have COVID and need to stay at home.
AMA Vice President Dr Danielle McMullen said the decision by the government to exempt COVID-19 positive patients from Medicare’s ‘established relationship rule’ was a sensible one that will support patients who are self-isolating and ensure they do not need to visit a general practice.
“This helps limit the spread of COVID in the community and ensures vulnerable patients are not exposed to the virus,” Dr McMullen said.
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Woolworths subsidiary MyDeal leaks 2.2 million customers' details
By Staff Writer on Oct 15, 2022 6:59AM
CRM accessed via compromised user account.
Woolworths subsidiary, online marketplace MyDeal, said 2.2 million customer records had leaked from its CRM system.
MyDeal said a compromised user credential was used to access the CRM system, and affected customers are being notified.
No other Woolworths system was involved in the breach.
Compromised customer data includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers and delivery addresses, along with dates of birth if customers had to prove their age to purchase alcohol.
“For 1.2 million customers involved in the breach only their email addresses were exposed," Woolworths said in its data breach notification.
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Sunday, 16 October 2022 06:46
Woolworths subsidiary MyDeal suffers data breach, 2.2m users affected
By Sam Varghese
In a statement issued on Friday, Woolworths said 2.2 million customers were affected, adding that it had begun to contact regulatory authorities and government agencies.
The MyDeal site is hosted by Amazon in the US, according to Internet services company Netcraft, and appears to use ASP.NET, technology sold by Microsoft.
As per Microsoft's own site, "ASP.NET is a free, cross-platform, open source framework for building Web apps and services with .NET and C#."
Of itself, MyDeal says: "MyDeal is a leading Australian online retail marketplace that provides customers with quality products from a curated selection of trusted retailers. "Since 2011, we’ve brought Australian shoppers the biggest brands, the best deals, discounts and sales on an extensive range of home and lifestyle products."
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Woolworths data of online unit's 2.2 million users breached
By Staff Writer on Oct 17, 2022 10:58AM
Woolworths majority-owned online retailer MyDeal identified that a "compromised user credential" was used to access its systems that exposed the data of nearly 2.2 million users.
The news comes just weeks after Australia's second-largest mobile phone operator Optus suffered a breach that compromised the data of up to 10 million customers - one of the biggest such incidents - triggering an overhaul of the country's consumer privacy rules.
The latest cyber attack follows two other instances since Optus - a "small breach" at Australia's largest telecommunications firm Telstra and health insurer Medibank Private detecting unusual activity on its network.
Sean Senvirtne, CEO at MyDeal said, “We apologise for the considerable concern that this will cause our affected customers. We have acted quickly to identify and mitigate unauthorised access and have increased the monitoring of networks.
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Australia to restore video telehealth subsidy for rural mental health
The MBS item was previously cut, forcing some people to give up treatment and some psychiatrists to cease providing service.
By Adam Ang
October 19, 2022 01:37 AM
The Australian government is restoring its subsidy for bulk-billed video telehealth psychiatry consultations through a A$47.7 million ($30 million) investment in the October budget.
Starting this November, people living in rural and regional areas and other eligible patients can once again access free video consultations for mental health.
This comes as the latest funding will restore 50% fee loading to bulk billed Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) psychiatry services delivered by video telehealth.
WHY IT MATTERS
Rural and regional Australia posts higher rates of mental health-related hospitalisation and suicide than urban areas. Many indigenous people living there also experience higher rates of psychiatric morbidities, such as depression and post-traumatic disorders. And yet, these areas have a shortage of health services of all kinds, especially psychiatric care.
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https://www.seek.com.au/job/58883690?type=standout
Partnerships Lead
Australian Digital Health Agency
Sydney NSW
Government - Federal (Government & Defence)
$101,757 to $114,800 (including superannuation)
Full time
18 October, 2022
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 Policy, Programs and Engagement Division is seeking a highly motivated Partnerships Lead who will assist in the delivery of strategic outcomes, coordinating program and project management, whilst working across a diverse range of stakeholders to identify and deliver mutually beneficial initiatives aligned to the National Digital Health Strategy. Stakeholders may include clinical and consumer peak organisations, industry, primary health networks and government.
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https://www.seek.com.au/job/58893391?type=standout
HR Business Partner
Australian Digital Health Agency
Canberra ACT
Consulting & Generalist HR (Human Resources & Recruitment)
$101,757 - $114,800 TRP incl superannuation
Full time
20 Oct, 2022
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 Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) has an exciting opportunity for you to be an integral member of our HRBP team working with customers across the employee lifecycle. You will drive positive solutions and work on projects and strategies that build the maturity of the People and Capability Branch and our leaders. You will play a key role supporting and guiding leaders, supervisors, and employees across a range of HR matters including performance management, recruitment, employment conditions, workplace behaviour, workplace health and safety and employee development. Reporting directly to the Manager HR Business Partners, the position will work under limited direction. This is a permanent full-time position based within either the Canberra, Brisbane, or Sydney office locations.
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https://www.chnact.org.au/for-health-professionals/digital-health-2/nash-sha-2-certificates/
NASH SHA-2 Certificates
For Health Professionals Digital Health
NASH SHA-2 Certificates have been made available as of March 2022, via Health Provider Online Services (HPOS). In order to meet the Australian Government Cyber Security requirements, all health provider organisations must transition to NASH SHA-2 by 31 December, 2022. You will also require an updated NASH Certificate in order to continue to utilise digital health services, such as electronic referrals, electronic prescriptions, and My Health Record.
To find out which type of NASH Certificate you currently hold, your Organisation Maintenance Manager (OMO) must log in to their individual PRODA, and proceed as follows:
- Click Go to service button on the HPOS tile, then click My Programs.
- Select Healthcare Identifiers and My Health Record tile
- Click Healthcare Identifiers – Manage existing records.
- Select My
Organisations and then the Certificates tab
You will be able to see your current NASH Certificate details. If you have a NASH SHA-1 Certificate, follow this guide to revoke your SHA-1 and upgrade to SHA-2.
If your system is not yet compatible with the SHA-2 Certificate, you must complete and submit your plans to upgrade to SHA-2 once your system has been made compatible. Once you have submitted this, you can be issued an interim SHA-1 renewal certificate. To view the register of SHA-2 ready software and check if your software is compatible, click here.
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Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:32
Massive leak of Microsoft customer data claimed to be biggest B2B spill
By Sam Varghese
Threat intelligence firm SOCRadar says it has detected that sensitive data from 65,000 entities has been made public because of a misconfigured Microsoft endpoint. It has dubbed the leak BlueBleed, adding that this data was only the first part of the leak.
The total amount of data was from more than 150,000 companies in 123 different countries, SOCRadar said in a post.
British security guru Kevin Beaumont tweeted about the leak, saying: "Microsoft have had some sort of breach due to a misconfigured system, which has exposed customer data."
He linked to a post from the Microsoft Security Research Centre which said researchers from SOCRadar had informed the company on 24 September of the misconfigured endpoint.
And Beaumont added that according to Microsoft support, regulators had not been notified.
In its post, SOCRadar said the data exposed included proof-of-execution and statement-of-work documents, user information, product orders/offers, project details, personally identifiable information data and documents that may contain intellectual property.
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Thursday, 20 October 2022 09:26
Public warned as scammers exploit Optus data breach
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has warned the public to be more vigilant as scammers are taking advantage of the recent Optus data breach.
In a statement, the regulatory body said it is receiving reports that scammers are sending email cams using Optus’ branding.
The emails would mislead the user, saying their personal information has been compromised in the data breach. It would then lure users to click on a link to update their personal information.
The ACMA noted there is no indication these scam messages are using data from the Optus breach.
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New partnership to improve controlled medication management
Friday, 14 October, 2022
Healthcare software company Modeus has been selected as the successful partner for the Electronic Medication Registers and Compatible Remote Locking Devices tender issued by Health Support Services, the shared service provider for the WA health system, Government of Western Australia.
Modeus will roll out its HS8 Controlled Medication Register application, initially to King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, then across the WA health system, which includes 80 hospitals and facilities across WA Health.
HS8 integrates with many hospital systems including iPharmacy, Patient Administration Systems (PAS) and Active Directory removing duplication and making workflows quicker and more accurate. The system allows hospitals to transition from manual paper-based controlled drug registers to an intelligent platform that decreases the time spent on controlled drug record keeping.
Nurses and pharmacists can reinvest this time into patient care. HS8 has safety features to prevent medication errors as well as closed loop governance and security to ensure the movement of controlled medications are tracked and accounted for.
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Tuesday, 18 October 2022 14:16
Diet tracking system to inform public health in Malaysia: Monash University
By Staff Writer
Monash University has launched a new project designed to help to capture food consumption data with an aim to inform and enhance public health and nutrition policy in Malaysia.
Intake24 is an open-source online tool used for recording dietary intake information and the system was originally developed in the UK for Food Standards Scotland by human-computer interaction expert Professor Patrick Olivier and nutrition researcher Dr Emma Foster from Monash University.
Accordig to Monash University, traditional ways of dietary data collection for research relies on pen and paper based methods followed by interviewer-led surveys, and these methods are resource intensive in terms of time, costs and burden on the participants.
Professor Olivier, Director of Monash University’s Action Lab, said Intake24 is a technology-based alternative to capture food consumption data from participants, and the web-based dietary recall tool includes a comprehensive food list which is linked to food composition data and food portion size images.
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Thursday, 20 October 2022 09:32
Telstra and Aussie Broadband top Ookla's Q3 Internet Performance Report
Telstra is the fastest mobile operator in Australia with a median download speed of 95.83Mbps while Aussie Broadband is the fastest for fixed broadband recording a speed of 67.40Mbps, according to Ookla's Q3 Internet Performance Report.
Mobile report
Telstra led with median download speeds at 95.83Mbps. Optus and Vodafone
followed with download speeds of 86.92Mbps and 66.40Mbps respectively.
For multi-server latency results, Optus registered the lowest median multi-server latency at 35 ms. Second and both tied are Telstra and Vodafone at 37 ms.
However, when Ookla measured each operator's consistency and performance, it declared there was no statistical winner during Q3 2022.
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Thursday, 20 October 2022 07:58
Labor to provide $2.4b to NBN Co for 1.5m fibre upgrades
By Sam Varghese
The Federal Government says it will provide a US$2.4 billion equity investment over four years to the NBN Co so that an additional 1.5 million premises can be upgraded from copper connections to fibre by 2025. The money will be formally announced in its budget update on 25 October.
A joint statement from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland on Thursday — sent to bigger media organisations on Wednesday night — said the investment would benefit more than 660,000 premises in regional areas.
Two years ago, the NBN Co announced it would spend $3.5 billion to ensure that about 75% of the homes on the NBN could be upgraded, bringing the total on full-fibre to about eight million. The Labor announcement on Thursday means that total would move closer to 10 million.
Just a day prior to that announcement, $700 million was promised for business fibre zones in metropolitan areas and the regions, and $300 million to improve regional Internet services.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-to-receive-24-billion-to-extend-fttn-overbuild-586702
NBN Co to receive $2.4 billion to extend FTTN overbuild
By Ry Crozier on Oct 20, 2022 6:50AM
As government keeps its pre-election promise.
The government has kept its pre-election pledge to back NBN Co with another $2.4 billion so that the network builder can replace more copper-based services with fibre.
NBN Co last night “welcomed the government’s commitment to invest $2.4 billion to roll out more fibre to communities across Australia.”
Labor said in November last year that it would fund an extra 1.5 million homes and businesses in the fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) footprint to be upgraded to fibre-to-the-premises. (FTTP).
The FTTN overbuild program started under the previous government, with Labor pledging to extend it so that a deeper overbuild was possible.
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https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-to-use-nokia-cpe-in-750m-fixed-wireless-upgrade-586637
NBN Co to use Nokia CPE in $750m fixed wireless upgrade
By Ry Crozier on Oct 18, 2022 8:07PM
Comprising outdoor and indoor units.
NBN Co is set to use Nokia customer premises equipment as part of the $750 million expansion and upgrade of its fixed wireless network.
The vendor said late Tuesday that it has been selected by NBN Co to supply 5G fixed wireless access mmWave customer premises equipment (CPE) under the program.
The CPE “supports high frequency mmWave bands, which are capable of gigabit speeds for premises within a 7km radius of a radio base station,” Nokia said, claiming that as a “world-first”.
NBN Co will use both cmWave and mmWave spectrum for the expansion of the fixed wireless network, which will be offered to 120,000 users that were previously in the satellite footprint.
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James Webb Space Telescope sends picture of Pillars of Creation
AFP
4:43PM October 20, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the iconic Pillars of Creation, huge structures of gas and dust teeming with stars, NASA said on Wednesday, and the image is as majestic as one could hope.
The twinkling of thousands of stars illuminates the telescope’s first shot of the gigantic gold, copper and brown columns standing in the midst of the cosmos.
At the ends of several pillars are bright red, lava-like spots. “These are ejections from stars that are still forming,” only a few hundred thousand years old, NASA said.
These “young stars periodically shoot out supersonic jets that collide with clouds of material, like these thick pillars”, the US space agency added.
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Enjoy!
David.
WOW, it's quite overwhelming. The National Digital Health Capability Action Plan was put together in collaboration with the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and the ADHA.
ReplyDeleteIt should keep a lot of people busily occupied doing all sorts of important things for many years to come