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From Dr. David G More BSc MB BS PhD FANZCA FCICM FACHI.
Brief Background.
I am a retired Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Specialist who has been in contact within the procurement and supply of scientific pcs in conjunction with advising on these platforms for over 25 years up until eventually the existing. Evidence of my revel in in Digital Health may neatly per chance just additionally be situated at my weblog (www.aushealthit.blogspot.com) which has over 5000 articles on the subject over the last 12 years.
Synopsis Of Submission.
After a evaluate of the Inquiry Terms of Reference and evaluate of what I have learned in regards to the My Health Record System and predecessor platforms (since initial making plans in 2009 / 2010) over the last eight years I have concluded that there's handiest one probable course, (if cancelling the complete program critically isn't probable my favored choice) and that is to cross the myHR to make a decision-in, to elevate the security of the formula, to delete all inactive rates and to revert the formula to a tremendously amount one unmarried affected person document containing perfect news to aid with emergency care. Deliberate decisions may neatly per chance just additionally be made, if required, to retain / or now no longer ancillary amenities reminiscent of immunisation registries and superior care directives.
It with ease makes no revel in to buy tens of millions of PBS and MBS documents in a copy secondary database or to think about the myHR will ever exchange the standard platforms utilized by GPs and Specialists.
The investment that was once to be made within the myHR may neatly per chance just additionally be more usefully be directed to the expansion of platforms utilized by practitioners and the interoperability of the ones platforms with each unmarried different and laboratory / imaging platforms.
It is assumed that all that is able to be planned by an externally facilitated Strategic Planning Process to create a roadmap that could neatly per chance just per chance be followed by the ADHA to arrive more scientific cash in, affected person safely and value for cash.
Terms Of Reference Specific Commentary
The My Health Record formula, with designated reference to:
the expected advantages of the My Health Record formula;
the verdict to shift from decide-in to make a decision-out;
privateness and safety, including things bearing on to:
the vulnerability of the formula to unauthorised entry,
the preparations for 3rd birthday social gathering entry by regulation enforcement, govt organizations, researchers and commercial pursuits, and
preparations to exclude 3rd birthday social gathering entry preparations to embody an extra birthday social gathering, including fitness or lifestyles insurers;
the Governments administration of the My Health Record formula roll-out, including:
the general public news merchandising campaign, and
the incidence of expert consent amongst customers;
measures which are mandatory to tackle network privateness things within the My Health Record formula;
how My Health Record compares to probability platforms of digitising fitness documents for the interval of the sphere; and
an extra things.
Each of these might be addressed in turn.
A. - The anticipated advantages of the My Health Record formula.
To reply to the term of reference straight one demands to pass judgement on the claims made by the ADHA for such advantages as reduced treatment blunders, elevated affected person safely, more intriguing care co-ordination and reduced repeat investigations and so on. prime to reduced healthcare charges and a more powerful first-price of care.
The challenge is that after six years of operation none of these advantages have been convincingly demonstrated. The declare is that once everybody has a document, with regards to decide-out implementation that the advantages will stream, nonetheless all over again there isn't a an important factors backing this announcement I have observed and I have seemed diligently.
A clear pointer to the loss of an important factors is that this yr the ADHA has started off to fund external organisations to are in the quest for and visible display unit advantages and so on. over the subsequent couple of years confirming that thus far any an important factors base for appreciate the myHR is intensely flimsy to non-existent.
That any Government challenge has consumed in a instruments greater than $2.0Billion with out rock-sturdy an important factors of major monetary or scientific cash in and proper detailed analysis is equally impressive and alarming.
B. - The choice to shift from decide-in to make a decision-out.
The PCEHR was once designed (2010-2012) from the outset (by Minister Nicola Roxon) to be namely decide-in with a high degree of non-public / affected person guard of the inside observe held within the formula to save lots of clear of and guard any claims that the PCEHR was once an stealth Australia Card or similar there being absolutely extensive concern that such a hyperlink can cause the formula to be deserted.
With the excellence of Government the new Minister Dutton commissioned to Royle Review which situated that there was once a deserve to cross from decide-in to make a decision-out since it in a pretty countless manner would take a lengthy-term for substantial advantages to stream and that voluntary recruitment was once now no longer operating neatly satisfactory. There was once no precise an important factors backing the announcement suggesting the excellence.
A Privacy Impact Assessment (conducted by regulation producer Minter Ellison) of the transition to make a decision-out was once given to Government in 2015 and raised countless the things that experience now emerged within the general public dialogue in 2018. As a instruments as I can tell this report was once with ease left out and policy for youngsters, sufferers of pretty countless illnesses and domicile violence had been now no longer applied.
Essentially the work wished for a hoped for hassle-free transition from decide-in to make a decision-out was once now no longer accurately recognised, scoped, planned for, funded and applied, so even supposing the change may neatly per chance just or should not have been a moderate theory (being dependent so much in most cases on slump in preference to an important factors) the execution has thus a instruments been woeful.
C. - Privacy and safety, including things bearing on to:
C1. - The vulnerability of the formula to unauthorised entry.
ALL cyber net-connected platforms are liable to hacking and intrusion and there isn't a an important factors to chat about that the myHR is any pretty countless, containing since it does priceless non-public working out and being readily on hand with regards to the cyber net from masses of factors. The agree with in a pretty countless manner is with ease delusional.
C2. - The preparations for 3rd birthday social gathering entry by regulation enforcement, govt organizations, researchers and commercial pursuits.
My emotions on Secondary Use of myHR working out are situated desirable here where I made an entire submission:
It is attached on the backside of this submission.
C3. - Arrangements to exclude 3rd birthday social gathering entry preparations to embody an extra birthday social gathering, including fitness or lifestyles insurers.
I am adversarial to any working out entry for insurers that could neatly per chance just in any manner injury the pursuits of any affected person whose working out in held within the myHR. Disclosure of this news need to be on the full discretion of the working out matter / affected person.
D. - the Governments administration of the My Health Record formula roll-out, including
D1. the general public news merchandising campaign.
The public news need to have used a blend of regular and social media and may neatly per chance want, no underneath partly, be run turbo than the decide-out interval started off so the general public had been now no longer as startled as they had been by a the zero notice about what was once about to occur. It will be form to elucidate the complete merchandising campaign as an unmitigated fiasco which failed spectacularly to equally alert and clarify what was once going down.
D2. - the incidence of expert consent amongst customers.
Informal discussions with a choice of clinician colleagues have mentioned there has been little or no cut-thru within the network bearing on to the myHR and why folk are being fairly lots to have one except they're sufficiently digitally literate to make a decision out and are conscious about prospective things that could neatly per chance just come up if they do now no longer.
E. Measures which are mandatory to tackle network privateness things within the My Health Record formula.
Essentially what will be required if the plan to cross to make a decision out is endured with is recognition of the information of the 2015 Minter Ellison Privacy Impact Assessment and a a respected deal elevated public verbal exchange / practicing program.
F. How My Health Record compares to probability platforms of digitising fitness documents for the interval of the sphere.
No state with a population of 25 million folk has ever efficiently mounted a secondary countrywide digital document formula for all its electorate that has served to demands of equally clinicians and patients. The things related to having individual clinicians, laboratories and so forth feed working out to a central hub and then have it made usefully readily on hand to equally the affected individual and their fitness practitioner have now no longer and I agree with, is so much likely now no longer soluble, for motives of currency, accuracy, reliability and useability. The length of the population served in reality things which is why the more positive platforms are current in Scandinavia and Scotland and why there do now no longer appear like any detailed countrywide platforms within the uk, the u. s. and so forth.
KP Connect the pocket book computer formula operated by Kaiser Permanente to hitch carrier their 9 million patients can expense roughly $500,000 per fitness practitioner to match and up until eventually 2010 can expense $US6billion +.
G. Any Other Matters.
The subjects I wish to tackle underneath this heading are:
1. The probability that a full digital fitness document for every unmarried of the population should not be a moderate theory and that it is likewise preferable handiest to have a small emergency care abstract to aid emergency care with more detailed documents being help by the affected individual and / or their practitioner.
2. The horrible depth of the inside observe awarded to Governments of equally political stripes in a neighborhood as perplexing as countrywide Digital Health. Most news has did now no longer recognise that Digital Health platforms, to work acceptably, deserve to be focussed on the demands of the two the affected individual OR the clinician. Their formula demands are pretty countless and cannot be served efficiently by the same formula. See booklet citation beneath.
three. The deserve to evidently face the probability that the My Health Record program will now no longer supply what is preferred and to begin out all over again with a methodology to change into aware about what may neatly per chance just doubtless be a respected suggestion> This demands to ignore the stress related to the monstrous sunk can expense of what has gone turbo than.
four. The reality that the My Health Record program, by presenting such a in depth footprint on a small e-fitness marketplace has had a unsafe influence on innovation and initiative on this domain where highest actors on this sector have been compelled to serve a barely horrible theory (the PCEHR and then the myHR) for monetary survival. This has been a tremendously unsafe distortion.
5. Any Digital Health System need to, of necessity, be supported strongly by the Clinical network to succeed. Polls of clinicians conducted just this present day educate that GPs are, by and in depth, fed up within the formula and are all the time now no longer supportive of the myHR with out profound and a instruments achieving growth. Attempting to sturdy-arm the occupation will with ease now no longer work!
What Is Needed If A (Wrong) Decision Is Taken To Persist With the myHR.
If, for some motives why it is made up our minds to stick to the myHR System (which I do now no longer advise) the subsequent is an expansion of the stairs are required to per chance make the formula barely acceptable.
1. Making the default safety settings such that you (the inside observe proprietor) ought to consent to any sharing of news in preference to having to namely block sharing.
2. Making the concept that of status consent be recognised for the nonsense it is within the sharing of non-public fitness news, and require educate consent on all occasions.
three. Making the general consent mannequin of the myHR merely decide-in with the technologies to confine / delete all the document as neatly since the technologies to down load and conserve the document in a gear readable form.
four. Making on the market a bodily MBS item amount to make it rewarding for the GP to curate the document with the affected individual to ensure that accuracy and currency of the working out held within the formula.
5. Allowing the prospective for the affected individual to print out a abstract of their myHR to carry in their wallet to aid ought to they fall ailing or be injured.
6. Full military grade encryption of the working out-base to ensure that breaches of the formula lead to minimum working out loss in conjunction with two component individualised authentication with perfect audit trail to ensure that it is intensely laborious to flee with nameless penetration of the formula.
7. Specific measures to harden the security of the GP and Pharmacy endpoints to entry the formula with all different entry obtained rid of in addition in secured emergency rooms. Uploads of news would however be permitted by Pathology, Radiology and so on. nonetheless allied fitness, podiatrists and the like will be excluded. This signifies that just identified pharmacists and docs can entry the formula and no individual else additionally the affected individual who also requires two component ID.
8. Careful evaluate of the scenarios bearing on to minors, estranged partners to ensure that biggest consumer safety and privateness.
9. Make it unlawful to discriminate in direction of somebody on the groundwork of even once they've had been given had been given a MHR
10. Law to make it unlawful to discriminate in direction of somebody on the groundwork of even once they provide entry to their MHR
eleven. Law to make processes to apply working out for analysis have ethics committee approval and explicit affected person consent
12. Data cannot be used for commercial reach; it may neatly per chance just highest likely handiest be used for public legit with explicit consent from patients
13. Emergency entry codes can handiest be used for direct care of the affected individual (now no longer for 'public safety' motives)
14. No govt branch to have entry to MHR. Only police for investigation of an precise crime (now no longer for prevention) with a court docket order
15. Make it unlawful for any myHR working out to be sold by somebody and no secondary use for commercial functions.
sixteen. Clarify how non-English speakers, the ones with intellectual disabilities (eg dementia), the ones with out legit pocket book computer skillability can decide-out and/or distinction settings within the MHR.
17. All working out entry logged so the affected individual can see it (including police entry).
18. All working out entry logged to somebody in preference to an organisation.
19. Make default environment maximal restriction (in preference to the minimum privateness environment it now has) - working out cannot be shared by default that it may neatly per chance just highest likely handiest ever be shared with regards to affirmative consent
20. Pause within the rollout simultaneously a public enquiry is held in to the privateness, working out safety implications of MHR.
Note: A number of these factors had been kindly mentioned by Dr Thomas Rechnitzer of the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Other than addressing the privateness and things of safety cited above there deserve to be major scientific software program and affected person safety modification and evaluate to optimise the scientific software program and working out first-price and so forth in conjunction with evaluate of the gorgeous countless work-processes that encompass the formula.
This work requires formal revel in from a choice of unbiased Health Informatics consultants with reasonably countless differing technologies sets and will be highest satisfying conducted independently by a worldwide consulting producer.
Given the can expense in practitioners time to curate the monstrous number of fitness documents (assume 1-2 hours a week for forty,000 practitioners at $a hundred per hour = Close to $1B each yr) we also want a troublesome-nosed can expense-cash in / magnitude for cash prognosis. The myHR is going to have a absolutely extensive ongoing can expense and we deserve to grasp there are all the time no more intriguing instruments to arrive fairly lots as legit if no more intriguing conclude effect.
Also wished is a formal Architectural Review to glance at which of the odds as there are a choice of probability non-centralised possibilities reminiscent of associated regional fitness news exchanges with operating parameters comparable to the above, direct on-line entry to beefed up GP platforms or pretty countless shapes of card dependent so much in most cases platforms which is likewise inexpensive and larger.
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Recommended Book:
The committee may neatly per chance just very usefully evaluate this booklet which makes a tremendously monstrous number of functional factors and guarantees fairly refreshing background:
Title The Digitalization of Healthcare: Electronic Records and the Disruption of Moral Orders
Publisher Oxford University Press, 2017
ISBN 0191804061, 9780191804069
Useful Background Links:
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Appendix 1.
November sixteen, 2017
Final Submission - Secondary Use Of MyHR Data.
Background to Submission Author.
Dr. David G More MB, PhD, FACHI, the writer of this submission, is a registered medical practitioner with an over 20 yr background in Digital Health implementation and use.
Short Summary.
Overall I would just settle on to be designated that a designated thing Framework the Consultation comes up with we now have sturdy public accountability as to who is doing what with whose working out and that it is conducted underneath moral supervision - assuming that we come to a choice we comply with proceed with Secondary Use - which I save sceptical of - given the context of reduced public have self belief of associations and different negative aspects. If Secondary Use is to proceed I also offer what I agree with is a clever and pragmatic method to implementation.
Background To Submission.
On behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Health HealthConsult has been tasked with assisting to expand a Framework for the Secondary Use of My Health Record Data
Conceptually this framework is to enable use of the working out on this formula (which is identified scientific and administrative working out) of the functions of extraction, prognosis and reporting on any demeanour of working out developments held within the document for fitness related functions and for the general public legit.
Apparently namely excluded is find of the working out exclusively for commercial or administrative purposed nonetheless combined use is it appears to be like that permitted.
An event of combined use is highest likely the use by a for-cash in drug agency of the working out to comfort in looking folk for a scientific trial as just this present day cited on RNs AM.
It appears to me that all folks that experience a myHR ought to in the end be introduced a guess to make a decision-out and any Secondary Use even supposing preserving their myHR in that case preferred.
Issues That Will Need To Be Addressed In The Final Framework.
Individual Consent
There is a regular privateness principle that implies the private news ought to, repeatedly, handiest be used, by somebody, for the functions it was once accrued. As a instruments since the myHR is in contact that is able to chat about the inside observe held within the formula is for use for the objective of supplying or supporting the employees fitness care. Clearly utilizing this identical news for analysis, administration and so on. is unrelated to the direct care of the individual and so forth critically isn't what the working out was once given to the myHR for.
Data Quality
The working out held within the myHR is in huge section held in quite historic regular working out-bases in documents where the is intensely little first-price guard and where it is held in documents that makes it very problematic to doubtless search or use the working out. This has been brazenly acknowledged by the ADHA.
History Of Government Attempts To Misuse Health Data.
It was once public opinion within the uk that resulted within the cancellation of the so frequently called care.working out program and in Australia working out releases have been withdrawn after difficulty with the 1st-price of anonymization had been learned. At the very least this stuff ought to bring on over the end care and caution with utilizing the working out or potentially have some precise consultants oversee what Government does.
If There Is Any Social License For Unannounced Use Of Personal Health Data Held In The myHR
It may neatly per chance just additionally be, now no longer unreasonably, argued that except folk are merely expert and awarded consent for working out use that use of their working out is a violation of the social agreement between the individual and the Government and that it is this sort of retrospective distinction of the specs that is a contributor to the existing loss of have self belief is govt as starkly revealed in my refreshing ballot .
----- Dated 12 November, 2017:
Do You Trust Government To Keep Safe And Not Abuse Private Information You Share With It?
Yes four% (four)
No ninety 5% (90 9)
I Am Not Sure One Way Or The Other 1% (1)
Total votes:104
There Is Internal Government Awareness Of Complexity In, and Risks Of, Allowing Access To The Data
Discussions with the ADHA have now no longer handiest showed major working out first-price and accessibility things nonetheless also substantial things with safely presenting any form of individual working out entry or downloading.
Proposal For Ethical Use Of Data Held In The myHR If It Is To Proceed.
Given that it is serious that fitness working out be accurately used (where ethically probable) for the money in of everybody I suggest the subsequent method to secondary use of the working out held within the myHR formula.
The strategy also we could in linkage to different appropriate working out resources.
1. All use of the working out be thus of a written publicly on the market proposal. This may neatly per chance just additionally be constructed with the analytic entity. (A probability for this entity is in most cases a unit of the Australian Institute Of Health And Welfare)
2. The secondary use proposal is formally reviewed by an unbiased since it'll be qualified and diverse specialist ethics committee, and handiest proceeds if permitted. The particulars of the Ethics Committee discussion need to be publicly published. There need to be a seen set of regulations constructed to clarify what, and what now no longer, constitutes moral use.
three. All working out prognosis and reporting achieved in residing at a small group or sole target entity specialist in facing working out extraction, linkage and prognosis. NO uncooked working out leaves the analytic entity.
four. Researchers are encouraged to work with the entity consultants to conduct prognosis and reporting nonetheless no working out doubtless leaves the Government controlled repositories.
5. All abstract analyze ensuing from the analysis / analytics is made publicly on the market on a committed net-net page which also has the analysis proposal and ethic committee remarks.
6. The supervising analytic entity need to be inside Government and publicly loyal.
This strategy guarantees biggest transparency, absolutely extensive assurance of proper use of the inside observe, low-priced working out entry and high safety. There is likewise complete public self belief in what is achieved being achieved thus of mandated transparency and disclosure. Additionally since no working out is doubtless published, in addition in abstract report form, the deserve to consent is obviated.
The disadvantages is likewise that results may neatly per chance just take a little bit time and may neatly per chance just additionally be more dear than with ease handing the working out over for use (and prospective misuse).
I am confident to provide more particulars as is likewise functional to glance at the proposal.
It need to be neatly-recognised that this submission depends so much in most cases on the conclusion that the myHR Program proceeds as speedily meant by the ADHA.
To be clear, overall I do now no longer see Secondary Use of myHR working out as the two inevitable or constructive, primarily given the indeniable reality that highest of the working out is held and may neatly per chance just additionally be used in different places inside Government, is more readily on hand there, and use of the ones resources avoids countless the privateness things related to the myHR.
David More sixteen/eleven/2017.
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David.
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