[LINK] The Australian COVID vaccination booking platform

[Stephen Loosley]

Regards the selection of the HealthEngine company ..

Jan writes,
> https://www.innovationaus.com/chequered-past-of-covid-partner-healthengine/

And Christian writes,
> https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/11/company-responsible-for-australian-vaccine-bookings-previously-fined-for-sharing-patient-data


Yes, the current government is such a class act.


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From: "Stephen Loosley"
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Subject:[LINK] The Australian COVID vaccination booking platform

 HealthEngine to build Australia's COVID vaccination booking platform

 By Asha Barbaschow | March 9, 2021 -- 03:24 GMT (14:24 AEDT) | Topic:
Innovation
 https://www.zdnet.com/article/healthengine-to-build-australias-covid-vaccination-booking-platform/

 HealthEngine has this Tuesday announced being selected by the federal
government to build its COVID-19 vaccination booking platform.

 The COVID-19 Vaccination Information and Booking Service will be
launched by the Department of Health in the coming weeks to support
the vaccination rollout.

 HealthEngine said Health's "end-to-end COVID-19 vaccination solution"
would allow patients to locate and book appointments with designated
vaccine clinics via a service finder based on the HealthDirect-run
National Health Services Directory (NHSD).

 The platform is touted by the Perth-based company as a standalone
booking option that will help clinics get online quickly for COVID
vaccinations, where they don't already have an online booking system.

 The booking platform will be available to approved health service
providers who are part of the national COVID-19 vaccine rollout
including GP clinics, pharmacies, and state-run vaccination clinics.

 It's being fast-tracked to meet challenging deadlines, HealthEngine
said.

 "Given the very tight timeframes involved and the complexity of such
a project, we are under no illusions about the challenge we have
signed up to. However, the opportunity to support a historic public
health effort involving millions of Australians by assisting the
federal government with a very important piece of national digital
health infrastructure, was one we simply couldn't pass up,"
HealthEngine CEO and founder Dr Marcus Tan said. ....

 Facing the Select Committee on COVID-19 on Tuesday, Secretary of the
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Phil Gaetjens said
despite the instances of people being given an overdose of the
vaccine, cold chain problems, residents in aged care waiting for their
inoculation, the states not fully understanding the Commonwealth's
vaccine strategy, and the Defence Force stepping in, rollout of the
vaccine to date has been "okay".

 "I would put those issues in the category of noise and I think above
that, there is a very strong signal that the vaccine is going out
okay," he said.

 "I think they are teething issues that can happen in any rollout of
the logistical proportions that this one is."

 According to Gaetjens, in the case of the overdosing, "no harm was
done".

 "In the whole scheme of things, issues like this will arise and I
think the more that people go on about small issues like this, that
affects confidence more than the actual impact of those small issues
themselves," he continued.

 Asked if he was happy with the vaccine rollout so far and if he was
confident the government had control of the problems that have arisen,
Gaetjens simply responded with, "Yes, I am".

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