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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:24AM (2 children)
It's not the government's fault. The fault lies squarely with the millennial consultants they hired to build the application in Ruby on Rails.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:57AM
RoR? Lol, get with it old man! React is the new standard and unicorn.js is probably a better target for chasing the latest most special creation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @09:59AM
Contractors. accenture. Need we say more.
Australia’s Department of Health and Ageing has selected Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to design and implement the country’s Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system. The initiative will span all Australia-based health systems and enable patients with a single record to manage care.
https://newsroom.accenture.com/subjects/client-winsnew-contracts/australia-accenture-to-build-personal-e-health-system.htm [accenture.com]
That's the original system. Australian Digital Health Agency still uses contractors.