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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday February 21 2019, @11:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-you-have-nothing-to-hide dept.

Last year the Australian government decided to follow in the ill fated footsteps of other countries and change the electronic online health system from opt out to opt in causing many people to make the effort to out out. When you see millions of Australians getting off of their collective arses for something like this you know it is serious. More serious perhaps than the Sunday football. Then the pollies extended the opt out period a couple of times. To give everyone a chance to vote with their feet. Now that the final final final opt out period has ended the numbers are in.
Around 10 percent of the population of Australia opted out of the ehealth record system. Those who are left will now have a record created for them and data automatically loaded into it from government systems.

I am so shocked. Australians. Doing something. Shocked, I tell you, shocked. And alarmed.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 21 2019, @01:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 21 2019, @01:28PM (#804489)

    So some fraction of the population don't want an abusive ex working in the medical field with "root" access to their records to know their records and current address, some fraction likely believe "the system" is likely to lose their record of being allergic to WTF-ium and thus kill them unlike the old system where at least they know the low risks, etc.

    Yeah .... the old system, where they ask if you are allergic to something but you have trouble responding because you are in coma kind of a system? So then they just chance it because low probability? That system?