This appeared last week:
Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record
No ‘shoebox of PDFs’: My Health Record in good shape, says former ADHA CDO
By Peter Gearin
Thursday July 11, 2024
Steven Issa stepped down as chief digital officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) two years ago, but any criticism of My Health Record still stings.
“I genuinely believe in it,” Issa told The Mandarin following his presentation at the Qualtrics X4 conference in Sydney. “For families like mine — and those who are frequent fliers in the healthcare system — I can’t tell you how much of a benefit it can be.”
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Really you wonder why, after more than a decade, there is still a belief that the myHR can be a nationally useful system that should continue to be supported and funded!
It is clear the time has come to stop wasting money on what is obviously a failed idea – or at least a failed implementation of an apparently unworkable idea.
Surely we need to stop it before we all go blind!
David.
This is what can happen when there is an over reliance on technology that is not properly architected and protected.
ReplyDelete"Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling After the Great IT Meltdown
Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools—and face the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days—after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update.
https://www.wired.com/story/hospitals-crowdstrike-microsoft-it-outage-meltdown/"
This site tells you about the problem, how trivial it was (a bad.sys file) and how to fix it.
In the past, the business cases has had cost efficiency as one of, if not the only highest priority. Hence connectivity, centralisation and standardisation.
If the highest priority is systems that are resilient and have the capability to run locally and disconnected from telecommunications and external power then the whole structure of the system changes and what has been built is incapable of being migrated to the new architecture.
And becomes much more expensive.
So what are government's priorities? The safety of its citizens? Or to spend as little money as possible and hope for the best?