This appeared last week:
Council for Connected Care inaugural review report released
Friday, 02 August, 2024
The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has welcomed the inaugural annual report of the Council for Connected Care.
The council is a multi-stakeholder advisory group that provides strategic guidance and direction on how to improve health outcomes for Australians through a more interoperable digital health system.
ADHA CEO Amanda Cattermole PSM said, “The Council for Connected Care has been a catalyst for change and a champion for healthcare interoperability. It has brought together an outstanding group of leaders who share a common vision of a more connected and integrated healthcare system.
“All Australians expect a healthcare system where information is shared safely, securely and seamlessly with the right people at the right time to deliver the best clinical outcomes.”
The ADHA said that the Council for Connected Care Annual Review shows progress has been made in advancing the interoperability agenda, with collaboration and knowledge building resources shared centrally on the agency’s website, including:
- National Healthcare Identifiers Roadmap 2023–2028 to increase the adoption and use of healthcare identifiers in health and care settings.
- Digital Health Standards Catalogue, a comprehensive resource that provides a single point of access for relevant standards in digital health.
- Conformance framework to ensure digital health products and systems are operated in a manner that aligns with safety, security and interoperability standards.
- Draft procurement guidelines to provide guidance to healthcare organisations seeking to purchase digital health solutions and harmonise interoperability requirements in ICT procurement.
- Drafting national Health Information Exchange architecture in consultation with jurisdictions and key stakeholders.
- Supporting the adoption and
implementation of national interoperability standards, such as FHIR and
SNOMED CT, through education, training and testing resources.
Council Chairperson Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan said having a more connected healthcare system was an important pillar of consumer safety and puts Australians firmly at the centre of their care.
“It has been a privilege to work with senior leaders across the healthcare system, united by the common purpose of realising fully optimised and interoperable digital health records, which remain foundational to safe and high-quality care.”
The council was established in June 2023 as part of the Connecting Australian Healthcare – National Healthcare Interoperability Plan 2023–2028, which was auspiced by all governments to significantly reduce fragmentation and increase information sharing across the healthcare system.
Here is the link:
This is a new grouping for me so I had a look:
Council for Connected Care
Providing strategic advice on interoperability and supporting the implementation of the National Healthcare Interoperability Plan.
Contact us
Phone: 1300
901 001
8am - 5pm (AEST/AEDT) Monday - Friday
Email: help@digitalhealth.gov.au
Role of Council
The Council for Connected Care will:
- identify opportunities to accelerate interoperability in various parts of the health system and ways to harness these opportunities
- facilitate and support the implementation of the Connecting Australian Healthcare – National Healthcare Interoperability Plan 2023-2028
- promote and garner support for digital health initiatives that drive connected healthcare
- identify barriers to achieving interoperability and ways to overcome them.
Here is the link:
There are 33 members of the council, and they have held six meetings to date.
Here are the members:
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Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan (Chairperson) |
Chief Executive Officer |
Australian Commission on Safety & Quality in Health Care |
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Professor Peter Sprivulis (Deputy Chairperson) |
Chief Clinical Information Officer |
WA Health |
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Dr Jason Agostino |
Senior Medical Advisor |
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
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Mr Simon Bush |
Chief Executive Officer |
Australian Information Industry Association |
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Ms Annie Butler |
Federal Secretary |
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation |
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Ms Amanda Cattermole PSM |
Chief Executive Officer |
Australian Digital Health Agency |
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Professor Wendy Chapman |
Associate Dean of Digital Health and Informatics |
University of Melbourne |
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Mr Simon Cleverley |
Assistant Secretary |
Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care |
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Dr Elizabeth Deveny |
Chief Executive Officer |
Consumer Health Forum |
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Ms Kirsty Faichney |
Deputy Chief Executive Officer |
Services Australia |
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Mr Michael Frost |
Group Head, Primary Healthcare, Information Standards & Communications Group |
Australian Institute of Health & Welfare |
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Ms Mary Ann Baquero Geronimo |
Chief Executive Officer |
Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia |
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Dr David Hansen |
Chief Executive Officer |
Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO |
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Dr Rob Hosking |
Chair Expert Committee on Practice Technology and Management |
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
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Ms Emma Hossack |
Chief Executive Officer |
Medical Software Industry Association |
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Dr John Lambert |
Chief Clinical Information Officer |
NT Health |
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Mr Chris Leahy |
Chief Operating Officer |
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
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Ms Laurie Leigh |
Chief Executive Officer |
National Disability Services |
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Mr Keith McDonald |
Chief Executive Officer |
South Western Sydney, Primary Health Network |
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Ms Bettina McMahon |
Chief Executive Officer |
Healthdirect |
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Dr Danielle McMullen |
Vice President |
Australian Medical Association |
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Adjunct Associate Professor Steven Morris |
Chief Executive Officer |
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia |
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Ms Anja Nikolic |
Chief Executive Officer |
Australasian Institute of Digital Health |
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Ms Jackie O’Connor |
Policy Lead |
Allied Health Professions Association |
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Mr Peter O’Halloran |
Chief Digital Officer |
Australian Digital Health Agency |
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Dr Christopher Pearce |
Chair Digital Health Committee |
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine |
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Mr Michael Roff |
Chief Executive Officer |
Australian Private Hospitals Association |
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Mr Richard Skimin |
Corporate Member Representative |
Australian Patients Association |
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Adj. Professor Ruth Stewart |
National Rural Health Commissioner |
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Mr Tom Symondson |
Chief Executive Officer |
Aged & Community Care Providers Association |
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Ms Lisa Todd |
Economics, PBS and Data Director |
Pharmacy Guild of Australia |
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Mr Mark Upton |
Director, Strategy, Information Management and Governance Office |
Tasmanian Department of Health |
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Professor Trish Williams |
Digital Health Expert |
Flinders University |
We have a meeting on August 8 – so if you wish to raise a matter contact one of those listed above.
It is very hard to tell just what this august membership has delivered for the Australian people.
Perhaps we could have an email – explaining in a page or so – the value that has been added and the difference that has been made? I would love to publish such a summary!
What do you think this Council will deliver other than attendance fees for the members?
David.
The use of “Agenda” in this context is similar to its emerging use in “Transformation” lately—it is a great way to avoid actually having to come up with a set of plans, outputs, and measurable results. This is ironic as these same people worship the “ if you can’t measure, you can’t manage it” philosophy. It would be good if they tackled the funding models rather than areas they have no real commitment to.
ReplyDeleteThe number of organisations claiming to improve healthcare by achieving better access to health data is ridiculous, especially when there has been no real or meaningful progress in decades
ReplyDeletehttps://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/centres-institutes/nossal-institute-for-global-health/research/navigating-health
It would be good if they tackled the funding models. @john - that would s a problem looking for a solution - wrong cohort of people for that
ReplyDeleteWe have really lost the plot, I somehow doubt that more than a handful of those people have any idea of what the barriers to interoperability actually are and none will have a deep understanding. The biggest barrier is groups like this who keep proclaiming plans, usually involving the latest trendy technology (That they know little about).
ReplyDeleteI have been enabling interoperability for 25 years and the problems are always the same, crappy, untested software and poor standards compliance by both sender and receiver which they simply refuse to fix and often don't know enough to appreciate their errors.
Add to this government $$ to badly implement the latest "fix" rather than make their software do what it currently does correctly. We have badly implemented PIT, V2, CDA, V3, FHIR, SOAP etc along with failed government PKI implementations despite obscene expenditure for no gain.
I have given up listening to these bodies, as trying to actually make things work on the ground, when they won't work out of the box, occupies my time in a useful way. The most amusing line is that if you don't co-operate we might replace you, That's a classic "Go on, make my day line" and I have heard it many times, but sadly the people saying it are clueless and don't know enough to appreciate that fact. A financial crash with a need to cut waste might be the only way this madness will end? The ADHA and this group could easily spend billions and achieve exactly the same as Healthconnect/NEHTA/ADHA etc which is nothing useful.
AI will fix it - just prompt the ice president of question engineering
ReplyDeleteI totally concur Andrew. It's a great travesty that the Ministers responsible today, like Mark Butler, Bill Shorten, and many others before them, contine to turn a blind eye and a tin ear to the situation in the misguided hope that maybe one day a solution will evolve.
ReplyDeleteInteroperability!? There's more of it, too much to cope with. See Bill Shorten out today spruiking Govt's TEx. https://theconversation.com/albanese-government-developing-proposal-for-new-digital-id-system-to-protect-personal-information-236603
ReplyDeleteLast week the Victorian health services discovered that amalgamation as a way to rationalistion was just too difficult. Maybe someone whispered to the Minister that the States control registries of prime identifying data - births, deaths, marriages, driver licenses, etc - and none of that (AFAIK) is filtered upward to national databanks and harmonised with GovID, passports, etc., let alone useful to move patient data between networks.
I'd like to know if ADHA has surveyed healthcare institutions to find out if they are using IHI in their information systems.
One can be 99.9% confident that the IHI is barely being used by anyone or any service provider.
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