It is really amazing what rubbish continue to get fed to us by
ADHA.
These 2 little gems appeared recently!
23 June 2023
ADHA announces ‘coalition of the willing’
Government Interoperability
By Wendy
John
The Council for Connected Care has been launched to
accelerate healthcare data sharing.
A consortium of 25 health leaders has been assembled by Canberra with the
imperative to finally make healthcare data sharing a reality.
The new Council for Connected Care was established by the Australian Digital
Health Agency and has been tasked with accelerating interoperability.
Peter O’Halloran, chief digital officer of the ADHA, said he was excited
about the creation of the Council, which would have a strategic voice and help
accelerate implementation of the national interoperability plan.
“We’ve got all those people, some of the best and brightest in healthcare –
academics, clinicians, consumers, policy and technical people – all in one room
together to ensure that what we’re doing will meet the needs of healthcare
consumers and clinicians,” he said.
The Council is chaired by Mr Rob Heferen, chief executive of the Australian
Institute of Health, and is supported by a dedicated secretariat. Members
represent key players in the healthcare sector including First Nations
healthcare, consumers, digital health and peak bodies.
There is one representative from the medical software industry and currently no members who own
or run digital health platforms.
However, Mr O’Halloran said a range of members had significant commercial
expertise, including those providing services in the health and aged care
sectors. He added that the Council was a strategic representation of the
healthcare sector and that a series of task-specific working groups would be
established at an operational level.
Mr O’Halloran told TMR that
the Council was a missing piece of the puzzle of establishing interoperability
in Australia.
“Now we’ve got the coalition of the willing who want to actually help us
progress [interoperability] and progress it quickly. We have the national
interoperability plan, there are 44 actions. The Council gives us the ability
to get traction quickly, move forward quickly,” he said.
Here is the link to the full article:
https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/adha-announces-coalition-of-the-willing/93909
And here is another interesting one.
25 May 2023
Digital health reform: Government can’t do it alone
By Wendy
John
Digital health heavyweights connect with industry to outline
MHR strategy.
The Federal Budget may have promised almost $1.1bn for reforms in digital
health but using that money wisely and usefully will take comprehensive input
from the industry, say experts.
Budget measures include $325.7m to run the Australian Digital Health Agency
(ADHA), which is separate to extra buckets for e-prescribing ($111.8m), My
Health Record ($429m over two years), modernising healthcare delivery ($69.7m),
and intergovernmental agreement ($126.8m).
But money isn’t the only key to success, said Daniel McCabe, the Department
of Health and Aged Care’s first assistant secretary in digital health, speaking
at last week’s Medical Software Industry Association event.
“The government doesn’t have all the intellectual property or wherewithal to
make this happen,” he said.
“It needs a lot of work with industry to move the plan forward. We realise
now we need to bring on all healthcare providers including nurse practitioners.
We are trying to put the patient back in the centre of the healthcare agenda.”
Some of that patient-centred goal would be created collaboratively with
industry, while some would be mandated, he said.
Mr McCabe said the CSIRO would present an interoperability adoption strategy
and roadmap in 2025.
Amanda Cattermole, chief executive at the ADHA, said the budget enabled the
ADHA to do its part as a steward of the national health infrastructure,
“providing some, but not all” of the digital health services patients required.
“The most exciting part is the policy environment the ADHA is now working
in,” she said.
“Government support has moved digital health from the ‘nice to have’ into
the absolute cornerstone. This an historic moment for the agency.”
Panelist Graham Grieve, the creator of fast health interoperability
resources (FHIR) interoperability standards, was asked about what concerned him
most about Australia’s digital health infrastructures.
He said that the rest of the world was designing systems that were
“genuinely patient centred since they do not have something like the My Health
Record (MHR)”.
“Given the ADHA’s significant operational stake in MHR, can it lead, and be
trusted to lead, a system redesign that isn’t jaundiced by being tied to MHR?
This is something that we’ll all need to pay close attention to,” he said.
Ben Cardillo, CEO of Capstone, said while it was encouraging to hear
government and ADHA leaders state their commitment to consultation, a
commercial lens was critical.
“Australia has a complex, multi-tiered health system. The department and
ADHA’s challenge will be to develop a compelling business case to convince the
myriad of different stakeholder groups to adopt new systems and processes based
on common, national standards. Not a trivial task,” he said.
David Rowlands, head of Digital Health Leadership Australia, revealed the
development process for an Australian FHIR management framework. The framework
would include a community process to develop interoperability standards and a
governance structure. Mr Rowlands has been engaged by the CSIRO to develop a
minimum viable plan by June 2023.
Here is the link to the full article:
https://www.healthservicesdaily.com.au/digital-health-reform-government-cant-do-it-alone/1048
One tiny question. Has anyone thought a Digital Health
Future in Australia WITHOUT the MyHealthRecord might be best?
David.