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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: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 21 2019, @08:52PM (2 children)
Your fault, really.
If you really wanted to live, either you shouldn't have developed allergy to antibiotics or tattooed 'Alergic to... ' on your chest instead of that 'Do not resuscitate, mate, I mean it!'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @12:07AM (1 child)
I know it's probably an unpopular opinion, but I agree with this one. I opted out of MyHR not once, but twice! The first opt-out was "undone" when the date was extended. Don't know if that's just my particular case or it was systemic. If systemic it could explain why the numbers were only 10%.
Back to the pots I'm replying. Medicalert is a thing, so is a giant tattoo that says "allergies: penicillin" but a lot of people are reluctant to get either. The bracelets/chains are expensive and a lot of people believe tattoos are only for thugs and trouble makers (my mother fits into the category who believe the latter and won't pay for the former, despite an allergy so severe she can't even visit me for a week after I have been prescribed penicillin because it causes her throat to tighten). It is her fault if she is carted into emergency without any ID and dies as a result.
Up to the GP. In the scenario where you're beaten unconscious, robbed of all ID and carried into the E.R by strangers, there is no scenario where having a global health record helps anyway. If the E.R. staff don't know who you are how can they look you up? Sure, they could add biometrics to the record, but they are currently flawed as method of accurately identifying a specific individual from a sufficiently large set. Chances are good they'd end up with an incorrect file open anyway.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday February 23 2019, @05:57AM
Say... what?
Fuck! If true, then I'll have to do something: I opted-out first time but never crossed my mind to check.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford