Greg Twyford wrote:
On the other hand Ross Davey's E-mail last week, quoted below, made it
clear that Medicare is reducing support to developers regarding the
use of these keys, apparently outside submitting claims.
They can't have it both ways.
We think that Medicare Australia will classify 'referrals' as MA core
business as this is associated with regulations on claiming.
This needs to be clarified, but if they do see it that way we would
expect that they would support applications use of PKI for digitally
signing referrals.At least we hope so.
Ross
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Ross Davey
CEO
ArgusConnect Pty Ltd
Ph: 03 5335 2220
Mob: 0417 548608
Web: www.argusconnect.com.au
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Ross Davey wrote:
Government Drops the Ball on Healthcare e-security
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Since the moving of Medicare Australia away from the health
portfolio into the Human Services portfolio, we have been told that
support for development, deployment and technical support for use of
PKI in the health sector has been dropped for any applications other
than those that support Medicare-related business.
I am told that Medicare Australia no longer will invest resources in
supporting the use of their PKI infrastructure for strictly
healthcare-related applications. Medicare will simply concentrate on
use of PKI for Medicare ‘core business’; which is interpreted to
mean insurance-related applications.
This leaves initiatives that have adopted HeSA PKI for security in
clinical areas out in the cold and largely unsupported both
technically and strategically.
HeSA, the organisation that established an infrastructure for
deploying PKI certificates, certificate tokens and also negotiated
and oversaw the Certification Authorities and registration process,
has been absorbed back into Medicare Australia and told to focus on
‘core business’.
There are quite a number of initiatives around Australia that have
adopted HeSA’s PKI technology in healthcare environments on the
understanding that this would be the anointed mechanism for
encrypting health data and for applying digital signing. They now
find that unless the application is related to Medicare claiming,
their initiatives are receiving minimal support, they cant get
answers to important and urgent technical matters, and they cant be
assured that the infrastructure will continue to be provided.
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Ross Davey
CEO
ArgusConnect Pty Ltd
Ph: 03 5335 2220
Mob: 0417 548608
Web: www.argusconnect.com.au
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Greg
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