Overview of Digital Health and My Health Record - Webinar, 23 August 2018

In this webinar, we discuss among other topics how My Health Record currently and could in the future interact with the rest of the Ausrtralian health system, the safety and quality impacts of digital health, and what else is happening in digital health.

Panellists

Garth McDonald, General Manager of Service Delivery, ADHA
Dr Christine Slade, Consumer Advocate
Dr Ian Hickie, Co-Director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney

Q&A

3:50 - To kick off, I'd like to ask each of our panelists to give a brief overview of how they see the My Health Record and the implications
5:50 - Many people will be saying, "What is the difference between health and digital health?" What's your view on that?
6:45 - Will the term digital health still be used in 5 years?
7:20 - Ian, whats your view on integrated care and MHR?
9:45 - This all sounds ideal, Garth, but is it practical or possible with a national, highly technological regulated system like we have in health?
11:00 - How would you describe the state of health data in Australia at the moment?
15:45 - What can we learn from digital health systems overseas?
19:40 - We say we're empowering the patient, but will a lot of the people seeing the amount of data that the system can collect and be held by providers or whatever will be nervous about this, do you think, or not?
21:00 - Does something like MHR help integrated, coordinated, patient centred care?
24:00 - Could we get to a state with My Health Record where we can tap our card when we go to see the doctor or whatever and that's going to immediately tell the doctor the latest
28:30 - This person seems to be raising the question that maybe the clinician may not record everything the patient wants even where it may be wanted. To what extent can the patient say "No, I want you to put that down."?
32:50 - What can you tell us about the impact and influence of My Health Record in mental health care?
34:15 - What sort of safeguards do you have in the system to protect confidentiality where it needs to be particularly in the small sensitive and complex area of mental health for instance?
35:45 - Christine, what's your sense of the evolution, particularly the confidentiality safeguards? Do you have a feeling that for your experience things are evolving, or likely to evolve?
39:40 - How would you enhance My Health Record?
41:20 - Is there an issue with the type of digital care we want and how Medicare funds doctors?
44:15 - Are there concerns that all the new health and wellness apps are loading too much onto the patient, and is this a wider concern with digital health?
46:25 - Does digital health raise new, fresh, different challenges in terms of safety and quality?
49:20 - Is there a tension between making MHR useful for patients, and making MHR useful for providers?
50:15 - What about the 'uberisation' of health care? As we move faster, does the risk increase?
54:00 - We had a question, how will the quality of data inputs be ensured?
57:30 - Final points