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posted by martyb on Thursday January 31 2019, @01:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the Honeypots-R-Us-dept dept.

After the Australian senate forced an extension to the MyHealthRecord opt out hundreds of thousands of Australians have contacted the digital health agency to opt out of the new controversial online health database. With one day left privacy advocates are advising everyday people to opt out of having an online health record created before one is automatically created for them and their existing Medicare data is sucked in.

It's an expensive honeypot waiting to be pilfered.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @02:19AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @02:19AM (#794344)

    I've worked at a hospital, all I had to do to reset a log-in to get access is call the number printed on every mousepad and know the name of an employee.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:19AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:19AM (#794483)

    The original idea for the system was pretty good. The system wouldn't store data or records, just references.
    So, you go to a doctor, and they write you a script. You get a physical copy if you want, or similar. The actual script instructions are stored in your online record as the doctor's ID hash, the medicine ID hash, and the instructions to make the script in encrypted form. At a pharmacy, you identify yourself which provides the key to your record. The pharmacy retrieves the script info, and gets the drugs with the correct label. You get your drugs, the system records the script as being used, and the government discount if any is correctly calculated.
    This would mean an end to doctor shopping.
    A reduction in script interpretation.
    Increased trust in the system.
    A reduced cost to administrate and run the system due to reduced fraud.
    A clearer picture of a person's history of medicine dispensed.

    It's all good. I would sign up to this kind of system, and I am against online databases of information. Why? It would only store hashes of values. If someone stole the whole database it would be next to useless.

    But no, they came along and improved it.
    Doctors can store results in it. Any medical facility can upload data to it. The patient who owns the record can't delete from it.
    It's next to useless now.

    It might be useful if you have cancer, are dying, and want the test results - and don't care that the actual scans etc are not uploaded - then fine it might be useful