I am thrilled to share with you that Liz Keen, the Director of Clinical Governance at the Australian Digital Health Agency has extended an invitation to their online Digital Clinical Governance Summit in Feb 2023.
This is an important area that we, in New Zealand, are not nationally coordinated across despite having some great exemplar work going on in the regions. The learnings we can gain from this summit will support our work as we continue in partnership to progress safe and effective digital health development.
Thanks for the nudge Ruth! It never made it into my calendar, but I actually do have the space to attend today. Looks like an excellent program.
It would be of high value for anyone in @clinicians who is interested in anything governance - if you can make to any of it today it would be well worth it. Registration is free and low-obligation.
BTW I realise now that the time displayed in this event Topic above was Aus time (not NZ) so have fixed that. Also, have put the virtual event link up in Becky’s orginal post. Here it is again:
Anyone attending this please join this group: @C3.0-attendees
I have set up a chat room (#c3-0-nz-chat) / note taking space (#general:c-3-0) here in the eHealth Forum for us so we can virtually pass NZ related messages back and forth.
I took some notes and most particularly for Louise’s talk on 7 things we could be doing better. The DHAs CEO was also very good and spoke v well at the start and finish. Much of what was discussed was concerning the outcomes of good and poor digital clinical governance. Which is why Louise’s resonated becuase she spoke to areas of focus or mechanisms that governance needs to create and mature.
Her 7 points were:
Greater attention needed on privacy and security i.e. pregnancy tracker app fine print states info will be handed over to the police if required.
Inaccurate/unreliable digital health systems providing in accurate information to clinicians. i.e. automation bias/lack of reconciliation.
Failure to enage patients and stakeholders i.e. Fitbit sued re HR monitoring misguiding consumers
Lack of training of staff to use and implement digital tech/systems i.e. the why as well as the what needs to be communicated.
Inadequate monitoring and review processes in place across systems…unintended harm needs to be avoided re. updates/changes etc.
Bias - we need to ensure that our systems are culturally relevant and do not cause harm/death by their automation
Financial investment and legal consequences - i.e. start ups need to embed CG, health agencies need to own and discuss corporate clinical governance (appetite for risk), and the legal consequences of consumer harm need to be evident i.e. DNA fraud needs to be accountable to consumers not just the financial fraud.
It was a good conference, they are maturing their frameworks and socialising the issues across all stakeholders i.e. agencies, private, public and NGO.
We need to ensure that the new CCIO embeds themselves and this work at the forefront of what they do. The Digital Clinical Governance framework my team wrote is a working blue print for them to start with. It was completed in partnership with HQSC, Te Aka Whai Ora and many others, including with the DHA’s consultation.
Next time. Highlights for me was trying our ‘Zui’ and having a virtual coffee with Nathan . I particularly enjoyed listening to Anne Snowden and found this link useful
I agree totally, @Ruth_Large even if you did call me a sceptic. It would be great if we could get a copy of Anne Swnowden’s presentation. That would be worth sharing wider across our community.
. I particularly enjoyed listening to Anne Snowden and found this link useful