Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
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#2The Australian government is paying doctors to upload patient records to a centralised government controlled database.
The Australia government is incentivising doctors to sell client data to the government.
What part of this is ok in any sense?
Re: Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
#3The Australian government is paying doctors to upload patient records to a centralised government controlled database. The Australia government is incentivising doctors to sell client data to the government . What part of this is ok in any sense?
how is that compatible with doctor patient confidentiality?
Re: Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
#4Anyone know who is the contractor running this fiasco?
Re: Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
#5It works now, opted-out, got email confirmation.
https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/for-you-your-family/opt-ou...
Re: Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
#6The Australian government is paying doctors to upload patient records to a centralised government controlled database. The Australia government is incentivising doctors to sell client data to the government . What part of this is ok in any sense?
how is that compatible with doctor patient confidentiality?
Who protects doctors from attacks, when they get attacked because they value patient confidentiality over conformity to such governmental programs and maybe peer pressure?
Re: Australia's new e-health platform crashes as people rush to opt-out
#7The Australian government is paying doctors to upload patient records to a centralised government controlled database. The Australia government is incentivising doctors to sell client data to the government . What part of this is ok in any sense?
It seems overall okay if you accept the premises that
A) A centralized health record system can do substantial good by improving effectiveness and transparency of healthcare processes, and enabling medical progress through data re-use.
B) Doctors won't lift a finger to do extra work if they have no selfish incentive for doing so.
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#8Anyone know who is the contractor running this fiasco?
Accenture, AFAIK.
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#10As part of my work, I've had to read a fair amount of the legislation and reports coming out in this sector and also the "Consumer Data Rights" legislation (similar to the UK's open banking scheme.
What I found was a massive difference in policy coming out from the same government but in two seperate streams of work.
A) Consumer Data Right (legislation being built into Australia Privacy Act) focusing on banking, energy and then telecommunications: The user has complete control of their data. If a consumer asks a business to delete, they must do so (except for information that is legally required).
B) MyHealthRecords: The government has complete control of your data. You cannot delete your account or your data.
I'll add sources if I can, but its in the legislation.