tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post6225828353418670536..comments2024-03-28T17:49:03.998+11:00Comments on Australian Health Information Technology: Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On The MyHR Debate And Related Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - Week 28.Dr David G More MB PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06902724829795199526noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-62953281957966926822019-02-03T14:38:35.563+11:002019-02-03T14:38:35.563+11:00@11.05 AM .... I decided that if doctors don't...@11.05 AM .... I decided that if doctors don't use the My Health Record then we probably won't see an increase in adverse events and medication mishaps in primary care, however, this won't stop them increasing in the hospitals. Of course, if Discharge Summaries are deficient or plain wrong, that will affect the GP. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-39709056610514185752019-02-03T11:05:42.721+11:002019-02-03T11:05:42.721+11:00Could we be witnessing the crest of a new wave of ...Could we be witnessing the crest of a new wave of unanticipated adverse events and medication mishaps? February 01, 2019 5:58 PM <br /><br />Not possible? Everything is going just fine? It's only a few teething problems which always happens with big system roll-outs - cast your mind back to the QLD Payroll system, SA ePAS and Royal Adelaide Hospital, VIC HealthSmart.<br /><br />A new wave ofAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-73614013464684317182019-02-01T19:18:03.649+11:002019-02-01T19:18:03.649+11:00Just news innovative ways criminals will take adva...Just news innovative ways criminals will take advantage of an over engineered mess. MyHR provides all the virtual patients to generate scripts for, and the electrol role will provide additional supporting information and the list goes on. Meanwhile honest people get stuck with red tape and excuses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-35273817461226625182019-02-01T18:01:28.013+11:002019-02-01T18:01:28.013+11:00I wonder what Dr Kerry Phelps MP and her medical c...I wonder what Dr Kerry Phelps MP and her medical colleagues think about that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-16837610474529029732019-02-01T17:58:00.332+11:002019-02-01T17:58:00.332+11:00@ 4:48 PM "In fact, having medication data al...@ 4:48 PM "In fact, having medication data all over the place will just confuse matters and increase costs, when doctors try to keep the data consistent."<br /><br />By "all over the place" I assume you mean in the GPs record, the specialists record, the hospital's record, the pharmacy's record, the dentist's record, the RACF record and the PBS record (which doesn&Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-55062558372877874942019-02-01T16:48:22.702+11:002019-02-01T16:48:22.702+11:00The myhr is a) optional (in the sense that a patie...The myhr is a) optional (in the sense that a patient can opt-out and/or hide documents) and b) not real time<br /><br />Maybe that's why Victoria and Tasmania have their own Real Time Prescription Monitoring solutions:<br /><br />https://www.painaustralia.org.au/media/newsletters/issue-73/real-time-monitoring-ahead<br /><br />and the Federal Government is trying to build a national system.<brBernard Robertson-Dunnhttp://www.problemsfirst.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-26500497678664571442019-02-01T13:39:05.173+11:002019-02-01T13:39:05.173+11:00Trevor, the medication errors claim by the ADHA ha...Trevor, the medication errors claim by the ADHA has received increasing prominence of late because all the other claims around the benefits of the My Health Record have fallen into a big black hole and proven too difficult for the ADHA to deliver. <br /><br />As the message about medication misadventure and adverse events has taken hold the ADHA has found it expedient to adopt it as the highest Dr Ian Colcloughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-1891227609999991792019-02-01T09:03:52.542+11:002019-02-01T09:03:52.542+11:00The current stream of propaganda - that medication...The current stream of propaganda - that medication errors will be prevented by MyHR - based on a very precise number (of something) needs a good look. Is the claim based on a theory of perfect knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics, or on the belief that all medication mishaps are collected, or both? I'd have thought that the increasing complexity of medication regimens together with increasing Trevor3130https://www.blogger.com/profile/08148555743063226957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-58429969857518864232019-01-30T08:09:42.904+11:002019-01-30T08:09:42.904+11:00Tim Kelsey opened the doors for Google Deepmind at...Tim Kelsey opened the doors for Google Deepmind at the NHS and look at how the NHS is unable to rein them in and control the agreement. Nothing Tim Kelsey has done here is any different than the implementation path that had care.data at it heart. It is clear to me the goal is not a life saving system built on standards and quality software (ADHA has demonstrated a clear disregard for both) but Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-4187410358915478502019-01-30T07:46:58.801+11:002019-01-30T07:46:58.801+11:00I'm smitten by Shoshana Zuboff's 'The ...I'm smitten by Shoshana Zuboff's 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' (600pp) so I hope someone from behavioural economics/psychology can help. It's my conclusion, so far, that the commercial imperative is implicit in all massive collections of personal data; that it's inevitable some consideration has been given within ADHA as to how our personal information (that we Trevor3130https://www.blogger.com/profile/08148555743063226957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23447705.post-69564331402025189392019-01-29T20:43:24.265+11:002019-01-29T20:43:24.265+11:00Not from a journalist, but an anonymous editoriali...Not from a journalist, but <a href="https://www.theage.com.au/national/there-are-real-benefits-to-be-had-from-the-my-health-record-20190128-p50u4q.html" rel="nofollow">an anonymous editorialist</a><br /><i>There are evident, potentially life-saving benefits to doctors and surgeons having access to information in an emergency, for example.</i><br />"Life-saving" always glistens, but someTrevor3130https://www.blogger.com/profile/08148555743063226957noreply@blogger.com