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The Australian government online medical health record system is failing due to the number of people trying to opt out. The MyHealthRecord was introduced to store patients health records online so multiple doctors can access them. Many privacy and IT security advocates have warned that this type of system can be compromised. For most people it does not provide a great benefit. A key criticism is that users can't delete data only a provider can mark data as being hidden, and data is never actually deleted. With the Australian government throwing millions at this system to try to make it relevant this opt out may put a nail in its coffin. The government plans to sell data from this system to third parties, a fact which has not endeared it to the public with the recent government data breaches and census fiasco. People in Australia are voting with their feet to not be a part of it before it evens starts which says a lot about how people in Australia value their privacy.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by MostCynical on Friday July 20 2018, @10:08PM (1 child)
when they first proposed this, it was a way to create a unique identifier across all hospitals and medical practices, which would verify identity, and send any "flags" relating to treatment (allergies, prescription drugs, etc)
That was around 1997.
No hosptial computer system at the time had anything but a simple medical record numbering system, and no public hosptial could afford to upgrade (and private hospitals wouldn't spend money for no reason)
Now, the system they built actually *stores* copies of information (discharge summaries, prescriptions, vaccination status, etc)
From an interchange to a huge honey pot in twenty years.
Worse, the Australian government used Singapore as a model. That may not be the best model. [channelnewsasia.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @09:53AM
This doesn't sound so bad actually. It could be good. Just store some keys. Each agency then uses the keys to make decisions. I can understand this. It might be very helpful, especially for 'doctor shopping'. The current system is just crap.