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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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Thursday February 21 2019, @04:56PM (3 children)
One of my brothers (who passed away 15 years ago) had a chronic health problem and had a lanyard and little medallion stating his condition and who to contact. I'm not sure if he always wore it, but you don't need your data to be "in the cloud", although it seems most people think that's the only option.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday February 21 2019, @07:07PM (2 children)
Absolutely. And sometimes the medics and doctors look for them. But don't bet the farm on it. [emsworld.com] It would be far more effective to have a protocol that one checks a cloud resource.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday February 21 2019, @11:58PM (1 child)
So much of what I write is in context, and therefore I'm so often misunderstood. I was writing in these contexts:
1) yes, a universal health info database, universally accessible by the desired people (EMS, doctors, nurses, etc.) would be amazing, awesome, wonderful, etc.
2) many people strongly prefer, if not demand, that our data is private and only accessible to people we allow (doctors, nurses, EMS, etc.)
3) we (humankind) have not figured out how to make data available "online" and be absolutely secure.
Some people may not care at all, or to them it's more important to have the data available.
Some who are not okay with their data being in someone's database (which is being administered by lower simians) should be given the option of the lanyard tag.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @04:15AM
Are you saying that if we poured all of this data into a huge database then some scum at the lower end of the gene pool who has access would try to make a quick buck by selling it to whomever will pay?
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/04/indias-national-id-database-is-reportedly-accessible-for-less-than-10/ [techcrunch.com]
Scandal! Racist! Classist! AntiHuman! How dare you think such things. Turn yourself in for reconditioning immediately.