I Am Not Sure We Have Got Much From The Previous Holders Of This Job
This popped up last week. Chief Digital Officer - Digital Health SES2 ($289,317 - $353,895) Digital Strategy Division> Senior Executive Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney Closing - 23 Nov 2022 Division Overview   Digital strategy – responsible for national digital health design and strategy, underpinned by strong clinical governance and digital health standards. There could not be a more compelling (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 26 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----I have to say the first article calls into question just how the Feds have been procuring IT and what implications there are for Federal Digital Health – a worry!Otherwise a few other good ones as well!-----https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/government-tech-policy/audit-office-releases-scathing-report-on-dta-s-ignoring-of-p...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 26, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 19 September, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Other than ads for mHHealthRecord training in obscure regional spots from the ADHA there seems little happening much at all.Is there any critical news I have missed?-----https://www.itnews.com.au/news/adha-starts-turning-cyber-security-strategy-into-reality-585047ADHA starts turning cyber security strategy into realityByRichard Ch...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 29 August, 2022.
The objective is to create a new era of digital health in Australia with strong governance. This means open and collaborative processes for the agreement, development, testing, publishing and maintenance of digital health standards.“Digital health standards are critical to the safe, secure and seamless movement of consumer health information between different healthcare providers,” she said.-----https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/adha-ties-hl7-nationwide-fhir-adoptionADHA ties up with HL7 for nationwide FHIR adoptionThis comes as the agency enforces the government ' s plan to fully connect the country ' s health...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 23, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

There Seems To Be A Lot Of News And Reviews In The Telehealth Space This Week.
Here are a few I have noticed. First – we have a couple of review articles… Telehealth: call for formal clinical governance framework Jeetendra Mathur Georgia Zammit Grant Phelps Issue 34 / 31 August 2020 TELEHEALTH can be defined as providing health care, including preventive, diagnostic and treatment services, by using informati on and communication technologies such as videoconferencing, electronic messaging and telephone calls (hereand here). In recent years, with the increasing use of technology in health care, the provision of health care services has seen a transition away from traditional face-to-face consultat...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 10, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The rAIdiologist will see you now
This article originally appeared on South Manchester Radiology here. (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Artificial Intelligence Health Tech Health Technology AI Clinical Decision Support image detection Radiology Rizwan Malik Source Type: blogs

HISA Checks Up On Health Informatics In Australia. Interesting.
This appeared last week:Clinical Informatics in Australia: A temperature checkOct 30, 2017 | Clinical informatics, Digital healthClinical governance emerged as a key priority in our recent survey of the HISA Clinical Informatics Community of Practice. More than half of the respondents said clinical governance for implementing systems or process changes was a priority for the coming year. The survey was a temperature check on the state of clinical informatics and organised by HISA for the Community of Practice.Nearly half of the 150 members of the Community of Practice responded (48.7%)Around 80% were mid to late-car...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - November 10, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Here Is The Sort Of Boundary The ADHA Strategic Planning Process Needs To Address.
Just coincidentally we had some interesting related releases last week.First we had from ADHA the following pair.National Medicines Safety Program Established Created on Thursday, 19 January 2017 The Australian Digital Health Agency is pleased to announce the establishment of a new national Medicines Safety Program.The Agency ’s Executive General Manager Clinical and Consumer Engagement and Clinical Governance, and Chief Clinical Information Officer Dr Monica Trujillo said the program will work with consumers and healthcare providers to explore how digital health can improve the safety and quality of medicines usage in A...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 23, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs

Taking revalidation forward: improving the process of relicensing for doctors: Sir Keith Pearson's review of medical revalidation
This report details the findings of a review of the medical revalidation process so far. The review gathered feedback from a wide range of individuals and finds that revalidation has delivered benefits in terms of clinical governance and driving changes in doctors' practice. The review highlights concerns around the added workload of revalidation and makes recommendations for better ways to support doctors who are undergoing the revalidation process. The GMC have responded to the recommendations in the review in their formal response document. ReportResponsePress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 15, 2017 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

What can I do? May Wong answered the question.
The most common question I get--worldwide--after I give a talk or seminar on creating a learning organization to improve clinical processes in hospitals is:  "I really like what you are saying, but what can I do if those above me in the organization have not adopted the philosophy you espouse."  I respond by saying, "Start small, and just try to get something fixed in your area, working with other like-minded people. Maybe the ideas will spread organically. Maybe they won't, but at least you will have made things better for some."Well, May Wong from Sydney didn't need my advice.  My buddy Sarah Dalton at the...
Source: Not running a hospital - March 9, 2016 Category: Hospital Management Source Type: blogs

Mental Health Care Game-Changers: Technology and Social Networks
Jen Hyatt The world of health care breeds innovative thinkers, radicals, people who see and act to ‘make things better.’ So why is health care so often not a place of change, but a place of stasis? Change can be disorientating, and large systems can suffer from barriers to innovations that are hard to break through. And while, with resolve and vision, these can be tackled it is much harder to bring about change that requires a shift in power. This sort of change tends to create fear, often legitimate, that something will have to be lost or given up to enable a change to become embedded. But, by using technology and soc...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - October 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care DW UK Innovation Mental Health Technology Source Type: blogs

Tech Will Transform the Doctor-Patient Relationship
This article was originally published in the Health Service Journal — Jen Hyatt is founder and chief executive of Big White Wall and  a Disruptive Woman to Watch in 2014.  (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care)
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 21, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy HIT/Health Gaming Innovation Source Type: blogs