This release appeared late last week:
NEHTA Board welcomes the Australian Digital Health Agency and pays tribute to its outgoing CEO Mr Peter Fleming
Created on Thursday, 21 April 2016
The Chair of the Board of the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) Dr Steve Hambleton has welcomed the news that the disallowance period for the Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) had passed and looks forward to the next stage, the transition to the Agency.
"It is with much enthusiasm that I report that digital health is alive and well with confirmation that The Agency has the support of the Parliament and will be fully operational by 1 July 2016," Dr Hambleton said.
This announcement comes just three weeks after the Turnbull Government announced its support for the establishment of 'Health Care Homes' in General Practices that will rely on the My Health Record and digital communication as an enabler to provide personalised comprehensive care and enhance health system integration.
Dr Hambleton paid tribute on behalf of the Board to NEHTA's outgoing CEO Mr Peter Fleming whose stewardship has helped NEHTA deliver on the objectives set for it on its formation 11 years ago. Mr Fleming will pass on responsibility to a collaborative joint transition team for the final two months of the handover of NEHTA's operations to the Agency.
Mr Fleming, who has been NEHTA's CEO since 2008, said that he was proud to be at the helm of NEHTA as it had delivered the cornerstone eHealth foundations in accordance with its charter.
"This has made it possible to deliver the national My Health Record system to achieve the vision set by the Australian health ministers 15 years ago." Mr Fleming said.
He went on to say, "I am extremely proud of the many key employees and contractors to NEHTA that have been involved over the years, in designing and delivering the eHealth foundations that Australia now relies on. All of these dedicated people deserve to be proud of their achievements, which will provide health benefits to the current and future generations."
"NEHTA was tasked to 'develop the standards and provide and manage the development of infrastructure, software and systems required to support connectivity and interoperability of electronic health information systems across Australia' and it has achieved that," said Dr Hambleton.
This includes development and implementation of the key building blocks for a national eHealth system including standards and specifications; identity management; security and authentication; disease and medicines terminology; secure messaging; clinical safety assessment; conformance and compliance management; and procurement and supply chain solutions.
"These are the foundations of eHealth, and they are the envy of many of our international neighbours. There are very few countries in the world that have been able to transition to a uniform national 'eHealth rail gauge'." Dr Hambleton said.
NEHTA's work has also laid the foundations that will be progressed by the Agency to embrace the innovation agenda set by the Turnbull government.
"It is expected that there will be many more innovative ideas that will leverage those foundations and assist Australia to deliver better health outcomes and a much more engaged population," Dr Hambleton said.
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I have to disagree with this release. I believe NEHTA has performed very badly, delivered unwanted and unsuccessful systems as well as thousands of pages of unused and unusable specifications.
Given the $1 Billion or more spent on NEHTA it is hard to see any appreciable value that has been delivered.
There is no reason to take my word for this: On page 44 of the Royle Review of the PCEHR we read the following:
“Review Findings
The review has heard from multiple medical industry associations and software providers. A strong theme of constraints being imposed on the industry due to the centralist approach taken with the PCEHR, has been shared.
A perceived centralist approach, led by NEHTA and the Federal Department of Health has been identified as reducing confidence of the private sector to invest in product development and evolution, reducing the willingness to collaborate given multiple comments that information was often shared with NEHTA with little received in return.”
A perceived centralist approach, led by NEHTA and the Federal Department of Health has been identified as reducing confidence of the private sector to invest in product development and evolution, reducing the willingness to collaborate given multiple comments that information was often shared with NEHTA with little received in return.”
Enough said. NEHTA designed the unused PCEHR and was seen as having damaged the e-Health industry overall - rather than having been a force for good.
I , for one, and thrilled to see it go. We can only hope the ADHA turns out to be a lot better!
The press release attempts a hagiography of a virtually total failure. That the PR is funded by public money is really just hopeless. As a small consolation I now know the dreadful rubbish that was an un-consultative and self obsessed organisation that threatened to sue me for telling the truth are now out of a job. I sure won't miss it! It took 11 years but finally the stupid has been left to disappear!
Also good to see all those rubbish initiatives vanish - such as ehealthcentral. Just paid nonsense which still sits there as a monument to the hubis of NEHTA and DoH, and what you can get when you are spending government money. You guys need to get out more!
As my daughter would say to their demise, Yea!!!
Good riddance NEHTA and all the senior staff who determined its pathetic, confrontational and failed approach. I hope having been part of NEHTA will mean you spend much time thinking about how much better it could have been!
Of course the obvious issue going forward is just how different the new ADHA will be? Right now it is feeling eerily similar to the old NEHTA and to be a tooth less tiger being told just what to do by DoH. That certainly needs to change!
David.
Also good to see all those rubbish initiatives vanish - such as ehealthcentral. Just paid nonsense which still sits there as a monument to the hubis of NEHTA and DoH, and what you can get when you are spending government money. You guys need to get out more!
As my daughter would say to their demise, Yea!!!
Good riddance NEHTA and all the senior staff who determined its pathetic, confrontational and failed approach. I hope having been part of NEHTA will mean you spend much time thinking about how much better it could have been!
Of course the obvious issue going forward is just how different the new ADHA will be? Right now it is feeling eerily similar to the old NEHTA and to be a tooth less tiger being told just what to do by DoH. That certainly needs to change!
David.
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I Have Seen Some Spin In My Time But This Takes The Biscuit! NEHTA Was An Obstacle, to Not A Supporter of, Progress In Australian E-Health.
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