I Really Do Wonder Just What The Purpose Of All This Was. It’s Hardly Advanced The State Of The Art In Digital Health.

This appeared a little while ago.
Medical Journal Of Australia. Volume 210 Issue 6 Supplement
31 March 2019

Expanding the evidence base in digital health

Coordinating editors:
Meredith Makeham and Angela Ryan

Sharing information safely and securely: the foundation of a modern health care system

Meredith AB Makeham and Angela Ryan
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S3-S4 Open Access

Australia's digital health journey

Steven J Hambleton and John Aloizos AM
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S5-S6 Open Access

Towards routine use of national electronic health records in Australian emergency departments

Paul Miles, Andrew Hugman, Angela Ryan, Fiona Landgren and Grace Liong
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S7-S9 Open Access

Digital health benefits evaluation frameworks: building the evidence to support Australia's National Digital Health Strategy

Janice S Biggs, Andrea Willcocks, Mitchell Burger and Meredith AB Makeham
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S9-S11 Open Access

Gathering data for decisions: best practice use of primary care electronic records for research

Rachel Canaway, Douglas IR Boyle, Jo‐Anne E Manski‐Nankervis, Jessica Bell, Jane S Hocking, Ken Clarke, Malcolm Clark, Jane M Gunn and Jon D Emery
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S12-S16 Open Access

Attitudes of health professionals to using routinely collected clinical data for performance feedback and personalised professional development

Tim Shaw, Anna Janssen, Roslyn Crampton, Fenton O'Leary, Philip Hoyle, Aaron Jones, Amith Shetty, Naren Gunja, Angus G Ritchie, Heiko Spallek, Annette Solman, Judy Kay, Meredith AB Makeham and Paul Harnett
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S17-S21 Open Access

Nudging hospitals towards evidence‐based decision support for medication management

Johanna I Westbrook and Melissa T Baysari
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S22-S24 Open Access

Consumer‐directed technologies to improve medication management and safety

Andre Q Andrade and Elizabeth E Roughead
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S24-S27 Open Access

App utility and adoption in a tertiary children's hospital

Cheryl McCullagh, Melanie Keep, Anna Janssen, Hiran Selvadurai and Tim Shaw
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S27-S29 Open Access

Preparing Australia for genomic medicine: data, computing and digital health

David P Hansen, Marcel E Dinger, Oliver Hofmann, Natalie Thorne and Tiffany F Boughtwood
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S30-S32 Open Access

My Health Record implementation in private specialist practice

Jillian Tomlinson
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S32-S34 Open Access

Using My Health Record in a private obstetrics and gynaecology clinic

Elizabeth Jackson
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S35-S36 Open Access

Telehealth a game changer: closing the gap in remote Aboriginal communities

Marianne St Clair, David P Murtagh, John Kelly and Jeff Cook
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S36-S37 Open Access

Artificial intelligence and the clinical world: a view from the front line

Christopher Pearce, Adam McLeod, Natalie Rinehart, Robin Whyte, Elizabeth Deveny and Marianne Shearer
Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6 Suppl): S38-S40 Open Access
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I have to say it is well worth downloading and reading these papers only so see how little there is in terms of concrete outcomes – rather than suggestions that with further work potential may be realised of outcomes demonstrated.

The focus on the myHR in so many of the articles belies the virtually total lack of evidence so far that it is a genuinely useful clinical system. As for comparing its utility with other approaches – this does not seem to have occurred to anyone!

You have to wonder just who paid for all this and how much it cost for what I see as very little new news.

I really love the irony in the fact that the earlier and demonstrably working shared record system in the Northern Territory (the myehr system - https://nt.gov.au/wellbeing/hospitals-health-services/my-ehealth-record ) was closed down to be replaced by the unproven myHR!

Each of these papers says it was commissioned and peer reviewed. I wonder who the reviewers? Years ago I used to review papers for HISA but they lost interest when if kept describing most of the abstracts as “gunna” abstracts. (The authors were going to undertake a study and we were being alerted in advance!) .

It seems, with a couple of exceptions, not much has changed – or am I too hard?

David.
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