Quote Of The Year

Timeless Quotes - Sadly The Late Paul Shetler - "Its not Your Health Record it's a Government Record Of Your Health Information"

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H. L. Mencken - "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - Week 37.

Note: I have excluded (or marked out) any commentary taking significant  funding from the Agency or the Department of Health on all this to avoid what amounts to paid propaganda. (e.g. CHF, RACGP, AMA, National Rural Health Alliance etc. where they were simply putting the ADHA line – viz. that the myHR is a wonderfully useful clinical development that will save huge numbers of lives at no risk to anyone – which is plainly untrue) (This signifies probable ADHA Propaganda)
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Note: I have also broadened this section to try to cover all the privacy and security compromising and impacting announcements in the week – along with the myHR. It never seems to stop! Sadly social media platforms get a large run this week.
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Why the internet needs new rules, and where to start

By Mark Zuckerberg
March 31, 2019 — 8.02am
Technology is a major part of our lives, and companies such as Facebook have immense responsibilities. Every day, we make decisions about what speech is harmful, what constitutes political advertising, and how to prevent sophisticated cyber attacks. These are important for keeping our community safe. But if we were starting from scratch, we wouldn't ask companies to make these judgements alone.
I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators. By updating the rules for the internet, we can preserve what's best about it - the freedom for people to express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things - while also protecting society from broader harms.
From what I've learned, I believe we need new regulation in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability.
First, harmful content. Facebook gives everyone a way to use their voice, and that creates real benefits - from sharing experiences to growing movements. As part of this, we have a responsibility to keep people safe on our services. That means deciding what counts as terrorist propaganda, hate speech and more. We continually review our policies with experts, but at our scale we'll always make mistakes and decisions that people disagree with.
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Clinical Messaging in Australia

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Grahame Grieve
The Australian Digital Health Agency is working hard on replacing faxing with secure messaging. Peter MacIsaac discusses one of the ancillary challenges this causes in Pulse IT today:
The second barrier to successful cross-transfer of messages is that the messages sent by almost all health services do not comply with Australian messaging or vocabulary standards.
Likewise the major clinical system vendors are not capable of processing a standard HL7 message, if one were to be delivered to them. Senders and receivers have each interpreted the international HL7 messaging standard independently of the agreed Australian standard and associated implementation guidelines.
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How to control the settings for secondary use of your My Health Record data

Now that over ninety per cent of Australians has a My Health Record, we need to start using it. That also means becoming familiar with the dashboard and settings. Most people are not aware that they can control who sees what information in their record.
For example, you have the option to switch off secondary use of data. Secondary use is when third parties use your health information for purposes not directly related to your care.
This includes public health policy development and research – but also many other purposes. If you want to know more, read my blog post about this topic.
When a new MyHR record is created, your data will automatically be shared for other purposes. If you do not want this, you need to click the ‘do not participate’ button.
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Data science, ethics, and the 'massive scumbags' problem

Discussions of ethics in data science and artificial intelligence are all well and good, but they won't go anywhere if the prime directive is making massive profits for venture capitalists.
By Stilgherrian for The Full Tilt | March 29, 2019 -- 04:54 GMT (15:54 AEDT) | Topic: Innovation
"You're OK with doing business with evil people, right?" One of Australia's leading venture capital advisers had asked me that question back when the first dotcom bubble was about to burst, in the year 2000 or 2001.
I was involved with a startup, and we were meeting to discuss what the business plan needed to look like. The basic requirement, we were told, was a growth chart that went up and to the right at an acceptable rate. Investors needed to see that they'd get the return they'd expect.
It didn't matter what the startup actually did. Investors assumed you knew your technology, so you could easily baffle them with the bovine stuff. Your startup could be curing cancer or drowning puppies, as long as that chart went up and to the right. Up, and to the right.
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Rules drafted on how to access data under Consumer Data Right

The draft rules stipulate that data-holders must stand up a specialised service to take applications and administer data if approved.
By Asha McLean | March 29, 2019 -- 05:59 GMT (16:59 AEDT) | Topic: Security
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on Friday released a draft document detailing the rules that would guide the implementation of the nation's new Consumer Data Right (CDR).
The CDR will allow individuals to "own" their data by granting them open access to their banking, energy, phone, and internet transactions, as well as the right to control who can have it and who can use it.
The draft rules [PDF] laid out three ways to request CDR data: Product data requests, consumer data requests made by CDR consumers, and Consumer data requests made on behalf of CDR consumers.
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The battle to control artificial intelligence

One man holds the future of artificial intelligence in his hands. But is Google the right company to usher in the future of humanity?
Hal Hodson
Mar 29, 2019 — 9.54am
One afternoon in August 2010, in a conference hall perched on the edge of San Francisco Bay, a 34-year-old Londoner called Demis Hassabis took to the stage. Walking to the podium with the deliberate gait of a man trying to control his nerves, he pursed his lips into a brief smile and began to speak. “So today I’m going to be talking about different approaches to building …” He stalled, as though just realising he was stating his momentous ambition out loud. And then he said it: “AGI”.
AGI stands for artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical computer program that can perform intellectual tasks as well as, or better than, a human. AGI will be able to complete discrete tasks, such as recognising photos or translating languages, which are the single-minded focus of the multitude of artificial intelligences (AIS) that inhabit our phones and computers. But it will also add, subtract, play chess and speak French. It will also understand physics papers, compose novels, devise investment strategies and make delightful conversation with strangers. It will monitor nuclear reactions, manage electricity grids and traffic flow and effortlessly succeed at everything else. AGI will make today’s most advanced AIs look like pocket calculators.
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Babel fish, FHIR and general practitioners

March 28, 2019    
EMRs, the MHR, interoperability, the patient-centric imperative? Digital health has so far promised big and delivered little, especially at the coalface of health, general practice.
EMRs, the MHR, interoperability, the patient-centric imperative? Digital health has so far promised big and delivered little, especially at the coalface of health, general practice.
At last month’s launch of the Australian Digital Health Agency’s consultation on interoperability, the agency’s chief executive, Tim Kelsey, declared that Australia was now a world leader in digital health.
He listed the My Health Record (MHR) and the legislation that enabled it to occur as evidence of our rapid progress and leadership in patient empowerment. And having declared the MHR a success (so far, at least) he launched the next phase of the agency’s program to revolutionise Australian healthcare, a consultation phase on interoperability.
Interoperability is how all the parts of the healthcare system will talk to each other, and seamlessly and securely share vital patient data. It’s the healthcare system’s nirvana, if  anyone can actually crack it. Done well, it will certainly save lives and a lot of money.
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Digital health - a human imperative

NSW Jun 12 ADHA Propaganda
CEDA NSW/ACT is delighted to welcome Australian Digital Health Agency, Chief Executive Officer, Tim Kelsey to the 2019 Trustee program.

Speakers

Tim Kelsey, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency

Event overview

Guest speaker Tim Kelsey will provide CEDA Trustees with an update on:  
  • How the Australian National Digital Health Strategy is improving patient health outcomes through integration of digital health services;
  • The Strategy’s priorities such as wider health system interoperability; 
  • The benefits of My Health Record and how they are improving consumer use;
  • The Agency's work in improving the adoption, education, infrastructure and awareness of digital health in clinical and rural communities.
This briefing is by invitation only to CEDA Trustees. Trustees are senior leaders nominated by CEDA member organisations. At CEDA boardroom briefings Trustees hear from an informed, expert guest speaker in a private, small group setting. Invitations to boardroom briefings are a valued benefit of CEDA membership. Chatham House Rule applies.
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FOI documents reveal what GPs are getting out of My Health Record

Internal report suggests (some) doctors have found (some) clinical benefit
29th March 2019
Only one in two GPs using My Health Record think its clinical value justifies the time and effort involved in maintaining the system, the government’s own internal research has found.
Documents released under freedom of information laws suggest the Australian Digital Health Agency was aware it had a serious perception issue among its GP users in the months before the system went opt-out last year.
The agency commissioned two surveys of GPs, non-GP specialists, pharmacists and nurses in April and then again in August last year.
GPs — whose role in uploading and curating shared health summaries is seen as central to the system — were the least likely to recommend My Health Record to colleagues or request it for their own care.
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My Health Record best place for Advance Care Directives

ADHA Propaganda
With National Advance Care Planning Week occurring 1-5 April, medical leaders are reminding Australians to make sure their future health care preferences are uploaded to My Health Record, where they can be easily accessed when needed.
“National Advance Care Planning Week reminds us all of the importance of making your loved ones aware of your wishes in regards to health treatment, for a time in future where you may no longer be able to express your preferences. When you are sick, the burdens and stresses of decision-making may fall on those you love,” said says Adelaide GP, Dr Chris Moy, Chair of the Ethics and Medico-legal Committee of the Australian Medical Association and ambassador for National Advance Care Planning Week.
“Having conversations beforehand, documenting your wishes, and knowing where this information is stored and available can help ease this burden. My Health Record is equipped to store your advance care plan, allowing it to be accessed by your health care team at a place and a time in the future when it is needed. All Australians now have the opportunity to use this tool to ensure that they obtain health treatment in line with their preferences.”
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Regulate facial recognition: tech boss

Microsoft president Brad Smith has called for a global conversation on facial recognition, urging countries to regulate before democratic freedoms are impacted.
Luke Costin
Australian Associated Press March 29, 20193:32am
Microsoft's president has urged Australia and other countries to regulate facial recognition before democratic freedoms are impacted.
Brad Smith said a global conversation was needed to discuss issues such as bias and discrimination, commercial privacy and a potential impact on democratic freedoms if facial recognition is misused and abused.
At the moment, market leaders such as Microsoft and NEC are making the decisions on where to draw the line on each issue.
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My Health Record

Your My Health Record is a secure online summary of your health information. The Australian Digital Health Agency runs the My Health Record system. We oversee the privacy aspects of My Health Records.
List of results
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My Health Record: Innovation in delivering customer service

28 Mar 19
Author:Ash Natesh ADHA Propaganda 
All levels of Government in Australia are looking to improve outcomes for their customers by improving service design and delivery and increase user centricity.
A critical component to increasing customer centricity for improved outcomes is to integrate services. Integration helps deliver more streamlined and efficient services, improving overall customer satisfaction and restoring public trust in Government institutions. This means that all stakeholders for public services will need to collaborate and communicate wherever possible to coordinate services and information for better integration.
The team at Criterion Conferences spoke to Garth McDonald (General Manager Technology, Delivery & Projects) from Australian Digital Health Agency who gave us an insight on the implementation process of the My Health Record.
“The My Health Record has been operating for the past 6 years. It is about scaling and making it ready for the 23 million people.” – Garth McDonald said.
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NSW govt looks to develop AI ethics policy

By Justin Hendry on Mar 28, 2019 11:52AM

Consults on privacy, tech maturity.

The NSW government has begun considering what an ethics policy framework might look like for artificial intelligence in a bid to drive agencies to adopt the technology.
With the ethical considerations of AI increasingly top of mind for tech firms and customers alike, the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation’s digital arm is working to better understand the role for the technology in the public service.
It comes as agencies across the state increasingly look to explore the application of AI and machine learning in their day-to-day operations to improve efficiency.
Work on the framework began in late February with consultations with leading AI experts from across industry, academia and the non-profit sector.
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ANZ cautious on client data

James Eyers Senior Reporter
Mar 27, 2019 — 5.44pm
ANZ is treading carefully on open banking and remains worried that customer privacy will be breached if data recipients can pry into sensitive areas of spending, such as on health services.
“We are concerned about consumer privacy,” ANZ chief data officer Emma Gray said during a session at The Australian Financial Review Banking & Wealth Summit on the open banking regime, which is due to start in July.
Privacy protections and rules governing consumer consent are still being worked out for open banking, under which banks will share customer data with other institutions.
Drew McRae, policy officer at the Financial Rights Legal Centre, said the regime would make it easier for banks to introduce "risk-based pricing", which could increase the cost of credit for lower-income customers.
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A third of consumers would sell their private data to a total stranger

MELBOURNE, Australia, March 28,2019/PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Reckless data is leaving consumers exposed to more than they bargained for, according to new research
from Kaspersky Lab ( https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/privacy-report-2019/). Despite outrage and worry
around high profile data sharing scandals, including when Facebook gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to
delete users' private messages
( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/facebook-shared-user-data-private-messages-netflix-spotify-amazon-microsoft-sony)
, over half of internet users (56%) feel that complete privacy in the modern digital world is impossible. 

Recent cases such as tweets posted by Kevin Hart ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46479017)
, show how the data you willingly share online could damage your reputations and career. For the 'person on
 the street', it is also becoming more common for employers and potential employers to scour social media
 platforms, such as LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook, to check that staff and candidates are reputable. 
Figures from Career Builder suggest that 57% of employers have found content on social media that caused 
them not to hire a candidate, and a third (34%) have reprimanded or fired an existing employee due to online 
content.
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Australians' trust in banks' data-handling low: study

Australians have the lowest level of trust in the ability of their banking institutions to handle personal data securely, a survey of the Asia-Pacific by Unisys Corporation has found. The survey was taken ahead of the arrival of new services for implementing Open Banking.
The survey, 2019 Asia Pacific Banking Insights: Trusting in the Banking Experience, looked at the attitudes of customers in five Asia-Pacific countries/regions.
The online survey canvassed views from a nationally representative sample of more than 1000 aged 18+ in each of Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the Philippines and Taiwan – there were 5291 respondents in all.
Only 16% of Australians said their banks were the institution they would trust most with their data. Among these, those aged 18 to 24 had a higher level of trust (27%) but that dropped rapidly with age, and it was only half that level for those aged 35 and above.
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Facebook bans white nationalism on its platforms

By Staff Writer on Mar 28, 2019 6:33AM

In effort to tackle hate speech.

Facebook on Wednesday banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on its social media platforms, bolstering its efforts to tackle hate speech.
The policy will be enforced next week, the social media giant said in a blog post.
Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc's YouTube are under pressure to remove white supremacist and neo-Nazi content from their platforms.
In response, Facebook has beefed up its content monitoring teams and has taken down event pages that were used to promote and organise rallies by White supremacy groups.
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Health data security fears rife in Australia: SOTI

Wednesday, 27 March, 2019
Australians are increasingly concerned about the security of their health records and personal information, a new SOTI survey shows.
The research, which surveyed 501 people, suggests that the main concern for Australians around health information safety is not knowing who has access to their private information (61.68%), followed by security/data breaches (47.11%) and misuse of information (45.91%).
People are not even sure of who is responsible for the safety of their health information, with 61.68% believing the government is responsible, 61.08% believing individual health providers are responsible and 39.32% believing they themselves are responsible for the information.
“There is clearly a lot of confusion amongst Australians when it comes to the security of personal health information,” said Michael Dyson, Managing Director Australia and New Zealand, SOTI.
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ASD head details Australia’s ‘offensive cyber’ operations

Australian Signals Directorate head Mike Burgess has revealed unprecedented detail about the agency’s offensive operations
Rohan Pearce (Computerworld) 27 March, 2019 13:25
For the first time, the Australian Signals Directorate has revealed details of its “offensive cyber” operations.
In a major speech today the ASD’s director-general, Mike Burgess, outlined details of the agency’s participation in Australian Defence Force (ADF) operations against Daesh in the Middle East.
Burgess’ speech is a remarkable moment in the evolution of the ASD and follows an address by the director-general in October that the ASD head described as a coming “out of the shadows” moment by the agency.
Earlier this month the ASD for the first time revealed details of how it decides whether to withhold details of a security vulnerability its employees have discovered.
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Data leaders tapped by govt for advice

By Matt Johnston on Mar 27, 2019 12:40PM

National Data Advisory Council established.

Members of the first National Data Advisory Council have been appointed to guide the national data commissioner on issues including ethical data usage, technical best practice and “social licence building”.
Nine high-profile ethics and data experts were announced by minister for Human Services and Digital Transformation Michael Keenan ahead of the council’s first meeting in Sydney today.
The formation of the council was announced last May, along with the creation of a National Data Commissioner role, as a key recommendation of the Productivity Commission’s 2017 review of Australia’s data sharing and release arrangements.
Keenan said the council represents a range of views present in discussions around data management, including those of privacy advocates, industry, the government and researchers.
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Apple enters the digital newsroom

  • 12:00AM March 27, 2019
Apple has opened the lid on a brand new kit of services in its bid to overcome the inertia in the smartphone market.
Its new ­iPhones might come with all the bells and whistles but they are not selling all that well, and for Apple subscription services are a valuable hedge in a tough market.
Whether it’s games, movies, television or news, Apple is now banking on the billion-plus devices it has in the market globally to sell subscriptions.
Apple’s new strategic direction is built on the volume of devices in the market. This is the infrastructure through which Apple hopes to become the ultimate middleman.
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European Parliament passes new copyright rules

New copyright rules have been passed by the European Parliament in Brussels overnight, making Internet publishers liable for content that is uploaded by users.
Chief among the online companies that will be hit by these rules are Google, YouTube and Facebook.
Members voted for the directive by 348 votes to 274, with 36 abstentions, marking the end of a legislative process that started in 2016.
A statement from the European Union said member states would now have to approve the Parliament's decision. Once the text was approved, it would then be published in the official journal and member states would be given two years for implementation.
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Shergold sees a ‘gulf between rhetoric and reality’ of innovation and digital government

By Stephen Easton • 26/03/2019
Key points:
  • Advice: under-promise and over-deliver; senior public servants often do the opposite.
  • Key example: the advanced chatbot promised to NDIS participants, still not delivered.
  • View: the eventual aim of public sector innovation and digital government should be deliberative democracy.
Senior public servants fuel cynicism among citizens and staff if their ambitious rhetoric about innovative new approaches does not achieve the promised outcomes, warns government administration guru Peter Shergold. 
Delegates at the Public Sector Innovation Show in Canberra got a morning reality-check from the former head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and former APS commissioner, who warned that much of what they would hear could easily be dismissed as “managerialese” and mindless cliches.
“Certainly I think that many innovations in public policy design, public policy delivery, do not meet the expectations that we ourselves create … [and] that the expectations often disappoint, that they don’t meet the ideas that we espouse,” he said.
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Want more engagement in your research study? Offer $50 on Facebook

For better or worse, social media definitely helps with recruitment
Antony Scholefield
27th March 2019
The good and evil aspects of Facebook are frequently debated, but the social media platform has been a clear boon for researchers — offering a cheap way of getting recruitment forms in front of 15 million Australians.
Or so you’d expect.
Writing in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, Australian researchers describe the issues they encountered recruiting subjects for a study on how parents balanced the demands of work and family.
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Facebook censured by government for failure to act on livestreaming concerns

By Fergus Hunter and Jennifer Duke
March 26, 2019 — 6.47pm
Global social media behemoth Facebook has been reprimanded by Morrison government ministers for failing to properly address concerns about its platforms in a heated meeting convened in the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attack.
Several sources familiar with the discussions at the Brisbane summit said Facebook — which was last week used to livestream the mass murder of Muslim worshippers in New Zealand — was the focus of government criticism over its technologies and lack of willingness to make major changes.
Following the meeting with social media companies and internet service providers, ministers described companies' commitments as unsatisfactory and unlikely to deter the government from pursuing a legislative crackdown.
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Google launches global council to advise on AI, tech ethics

By Paresh Dave on Mar 27, 2019 6:45AM

Sets its sights on facial recognition.

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Tuesday it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
The council, which is slated to publish a report at the end of 2019, includes technology experts, digital ethicists, and people with public policy backgrounds, Kent Walker, Google's senior vice president for global affairs, said at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference.
The group is meant to provide recommendations for Google and other companies and researchers working in areas such as facial recognition software, a form of automation that has prompted concerns about racial bias and other limitations.
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$15m blowout: ‘Labor and IT don’t mix’

After previously denying any issues with a $50 million IT project, Treasurer Jackie Trad has now revealed a massive cost blowout.
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  • 26 March 2019 11:47

Patient Perceptions of Data Security in the Healthcare Sector

With the recent roll out of the My Health Record system by the Australian Government, and an increase in mobility within the healthcare sector, the issue of data security is under more scrutiny than ever before.
With the recent roll out of the My Health Record system by the Australian Government, and an increase in mobility within the healthcare sector, the issue of data security is under more scrutiny than ever before. According to a recent survey conducted by SOTI Inc., the world’s most trusted provider of mobile and IoT management solutions, Australians are increasingly concerned about the security of their health records and who is responsible for the safety of their personal information.
Main concerns of the public
According to the SOTI survey, the main concern for Australians around health information safety is not knowing who has access to their private information (61.68%), followed by security/data breaches (47.11%) and misuse of information (45.91%).
People are not even sure of who is responsible for the safety of their health information, with 61.68% believing the government is responsible, 61.08% believing individual health providers are responsible and 39.32% believing they themselves are responsible for the information.
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Cloud computing in Australia

Market overview
Kinds of transaction
What kinds of cloud computing transactions take place in your jurisdiction?
In Australia, many kinds of cloud computing transactions take place, but the market is primarily composed of four service models and four deployment models. The four service models are:
  • software-as-a-service (SaaS), providing software services hosted from the cloud;
  • platform-as-a-service (PaaS), providing an environment for the development and hosting of applications;
  • business processing-as-a-service (BPaaS), delivering business process outsourcing services that are sourced from the cloud; and
  • infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), offering data centre capacity, processing resources and storage.
Within each of the service models, there are four main deployment models:
  • the private cloud - for exclusive use by a single organisation;
  • the community cloud - for exclusive use by a specific community of users from organisations that have shared concerns;
  • the public cloud - for open use by the general public and owned by an organisation selling cloud computing; and
  • the hybrid cloud - composed of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures.
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Older people are more digitally savvy, but aged care providers need to keep up

March 26, 2019 5.34am AEDT
Moving into aged care can affect a person’s ability to remain connected to their local community, but most aged care facilities don’t provide access to digital devices. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

Author

  1. Dr Wendy Wrapson
Senior Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology
Older adults are more digitally connected than ever, even though their uptake of internet-based technologies remains lower than for younger age groups.
Today’s senior citizens are likely to spend their spare time tweeting about their social lives and Facetiming their grand kids. This is good news because research shows that social interactions benefit us.
The drive to join the digital community is no doubt influenced by social media becoming an important platform for news and information, sharing experiences and connecting with friends and family. Nevertheless, age-related gaps in digital engagement (“the digital divide”) still exist.
As our research shows, people who live in aged care environments are at risk of being excluded from the digital world.
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Encouraging the digital participation of older Australians through mentoring

1 Mar 2019
The purpose of this research was to:
  • Identify the type of resources and support that family members, friends and peers need to teach new digital skills to older Australians over 70 years.
  • Identify the level of support that family members, friends and peers may need to be confident in providing ‘digital’ support to loved ones aged 70 years and over.
  • Obtain constructive feedback on the type of content and resources embedded in a new ‘Be Connected’ website.
Qualitative methodology was used to address these objectives. Two online forums were conducted with 90 participants, aged 30 to 59, who were family friends, relatives or peers of someone aged 70+. Participants in each online forum were presented with discussion topics over five days. This report summarises responses from the forums and provides some extra background and conclusions.

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Publication Details
Copyright: Commonwealth of Australia 2019
Language: English
Published year only: 2019
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Paving the way for interoperability in Australian healthcare

Hafizah Osman | 25 Mar 2019
Clinical and non-clinical staff of today spend too much time on things that do not interoperate, according to Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) President Dr Harry Nespolon. 
“Let me give you what a normal day in general practice is like without interoperability. I see a patient, who has been to the hospital the night before, first thing in the morning. The patient tells me that the hospital advised him to get some ‘stuff’ done. I check my inbox, but there isn’t a discharge summary,” he said, at a recent Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) event.  
“If I am lucky enough to have a discharge summary, there may be just some vague instructions to contact a particular department, which may not know of this patient’s needs. This wastes my non-clinical time, which sometimes even results in achieving nothing. 
“So much time is spent ringing up other departments, scanning, faxing, moving paper from one side of the room to the other, etc. It’s very inefficient and I rather have my clinical and non-clinical staff talking to patients instead of waiting on machines to do things. As a practice owner, I can’t wait for this to be right,” he said. 
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Building Trust through the Data Sharing Principles

News
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
To date, the Office of the National Data Commissioner has held over forty roundtables to discuss the government’s data reforms. The roundtables have been an extremely valuable process – we have heard from researchers, businesses and citizens. Participants have come with different perspectives, backgrounds and concerns. This diversity has made the consultation particularly interesting, but hasn’t prevented common themes from emerging. Two key messages from the roundtables are: people understand that data can be used to improve lives and people are worried that information about them can fall into the wrong hands.
We have heard concerns about malicious hacking of data and inappropriate information being made publicly available. In this short piece we will try to address the second concern by showing that data can still be made useful without publishing it online.
Making data public online is an excellent way to unlock its potential – anyone can use it and recombine it with their own information. This can be a boon to researchers, business and the government, but the flip-slide of these benefits is the risk that anyone can misuse the data by attempting to identify individuals.
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Mental Health Professionals - Privacy and legislation underpinning the use of My Health Record

When: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Wednesday, 27th March 2019
Where: Online
Organiser: Australian Digital Health Agency  ADHA Propaganda
This interactive part 3 of a 3 part webinar series for mental health professionals will provide an overview of privacy and legislation requirements of the My Health Record. After attending this webinar, you will be able to:
  • Recognise Australian privacy law, requirements and how they apply in the context of My Health Record.
  • Outline MyHR legislation underpinning the use of MyHR in practice
  • Identify professional and ethical obligations, and best practice guidelines, as they relate to My Health Record and patient consent.
  • Explain to your patients/ clients how they can protect their privacy and control access to their My Health Record
  • Understand the role of representatives and how they may engage with the patient’s My Health Record
Webinar: Mental Health Professionals - Privacy and legislation underpinning the use of My Health Record
  • Date & Time: 1 - 2pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 27th March 2019
  • Where: Online (join via your computer - register beforehand)
Please note, individuals who registered to attend the webinar will be sent a copy of the presentation slides and a recording of the webinar after the event. 
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PDF Download: My Health Record helps you help your patient: A Mental Health Case study

A PDF document for the webinar, My Health Record helps you help your patient: A Mental Health Case study, by the Australian Digital health Agency on the 14 March, 2019 is now available for download.
To download the PDF document please click on the link below.

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My Health Record helps you help your patient: a Mental Health Case Study webinar
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