This appeared last week:
Annual Report 2016-17: New momentum for digital health in Australia
Tuesday 14 November, 2017
The first Annual Report of the Australian Digital Health Agency has been tabled in Parliament � it highlights a new partnership between governments, clinical and consumer leaders, industry and the research community to put real momentum behind bringing the benefits of digital health services to all Australians.
Significant progress has been made in the last year, the report says: Australia has a new National Digital Health Strategy endorsed by all health ministers; My Health Record is on track for national expansion in 2018; and new initiatives to enable secure paperless communications between clinicians have been launched.
Agency Chair Jim Birch AM said that the Agency is tasked with improving health outcomes for all Australians through the use of digital health technologies.
�Technology is already transforming our ability to predict, diagnose, and treat disease. But there is much more we can do to realise its full potential for the health of every Australian: giving consumers more control of their health and care, connecting and empowering healthcare providers and promoting Australia�s global leadership in digital health and innovation,� Mr Birch said.
In its first year the Agency has built a new organisation, connected hospitals and health services to My Health Record, improved the user experience for the 5.3 million registered Australians, and grown the volume of clinical document sharing with 14 million prescription and dispense records now uploaded.
Agency CEO Tim Kelsey said: �The Agency is here to serve the patients and citizens of this country � and would like to thank all our partners in the community � leaders in patient and consumer services, in clinical practice, industry and research, as well as the governments of Australia - for their continuing commitment and collaboration to ensure that everybody has access to the benefits of digitally empowered health services.
�Digital information is the bedrock of high quality healthcare and our shared goal is to ensure that all Australians benefit from the increasing number of digital health services,� Mr Kelsey said.
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Media contact
David Cooper, Senior Media Manager
Mobile: 0428 772 421 Email: media@digitalhealth.gov.au
David Cooper, Senior Media Manager
Mobile: 0428 772 421 Email: media@digitalhealth.gov.au
About the Australian Digital Health Agency
The Agency is tasked with improving health outcomes for all Australians through the delivery of digital healthcare systems and the national digital health strategy for Australia. The Agency was established on 1 July 2016 by the Australian Government as a statutory authority in the form of a corporate Commonwealth entity, and reports to all Australian governments through the COAG Health Council.
www.digitalhealth.gov.au
The Agency is tasked with improving health outcomes for all Australians through the delivery of digital healthcare systems and the national digital health strategy for Australia. The Agency was established on 1 July 2016 by the Australian Government as a statutory authority in the form of a corporate Commonwealth entity, and reports to all Australian governments through the COAG Health Council.
www.digitalhealth.gov.au
Here is the link:
In the best NEHTA tradition there are a zillion happy smiling Digital Health Users and a lot of positive reporting.
Fun Facts:
1. As of 30 June, 2017 there were 247 employees (Temp and Permanent).
2. Agency Funding 2016-17. The Agency is jointly funded by the Commonwealth ($120.892 million) and the states and territories ($32.25 million) reflecting the commitment at all levels of government to the delivery of digital health reform. Note is seems the States are paying a lot less than they were under NEHTA! with the Commonwealth paying more.
3. Registrations:
In 2016-17 the Agency, as System Operator, registered 1,120,817 people for a My Health Record. There were a total of 20,151 cancelled registrations during the year.
In 2016-17 the System Operator registered an additional 1,320 healthcare provider organisations. 89 registrations were cancelled or suspended.
4.Usage:
A total of 664,278 people accessed their My Health Record via the consumer portal in 2016-17.
A total of 2,217 unique healthcare provider organisations, via their clinical information systems, viewed records in the My Health Record system during 2016-17.
A total of 4,538 unique healthcare provider organisations uploaded records to the My Health Record system during 2016-17.
A total of 218,776,890 documents were uploaded to the My Health Record system in 2016-17.
5. Breaches:
35 data breach notifications were reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as required under Section 75 of the My Health Records Act 2012 (concerning potential data security or integrity breaches). Twenty-nine of these were reported by the Chief Executive Medicare as a registered repository operator under Section 38 of the Act.
6. Complaints:
In 2016-17 a total of 64 complaints were made in relation to the My Health Record system and, as of as of 24 July 2017, one remained open.
7. I could not find a single issue that was seen as a problem and all seems to be going fine.
A small reward is offered for anyone who can find a self-critical comment in the report. Maybe next year?
David.
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