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posted by martyb on Friday November 16 2018, @12:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the Honeypots'r'Us-dept dept.

When the Australian government originally announced that the online health care record system would change from "opt in" to "opt out", there was a backlash from the community over privacy and security concerns. After several months an opt out period was started where people could contact the government to declare that they do not want their medical data stored on the system. The surge in numbers to opt out initially caused long delays and system crashes as the Australian Digital Health Agency tried to keep up with demand to opt out. After the first few weeks the demand dropped, until last week where in the final days of the opt out period large numbers of people decided to opt out at the last minute. Due to concerns with system security and issues with last minute opt out requests the My Health Record opt out period has been extended to January 2019. So far, 1 in 25 people have decided to opt out of the online electronic health record system.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by MostCynical on Friday November 16 2018, @09:15AM (2 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Friday November 16 2018, @09:15AM (#762615) Journal

    When they won [accenture.com] - which includes five or ten years of support.

    And one relatively recent screw ups [smh.com.au]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @10:43AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @10:43AM (#763027)

    Accidenture won the WPIT contract [zdnet.com] last year to the great disgust of many onlookers.
    Have they ever delivered an IT project on time in budget?

    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday November 17 2018, @10:55AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday November 17 2018, @10:55AM (#763032) Journal

      I think they see a budget as more of a target, to be exceeded by at least 50%, than an upper limit.

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