Myhealth records app9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() That means the data should not be able to be linked to a particular individual.īut the national government has a bad record for successfully de-identifying health information. The government is also planning to allow access to your health information for research purposes by “de-identifying” your information. Even without a technical hack, that will make it almost impossible to keep your information secure in this system. MHR’s access-logging system does not track which individuals are accessing records, only institutions, which means you won’t be able to tell who has seen it. ![]() The default position is that numerous people will have access – doctors, pharmacists, physiotherapists, nurses, and unidentified staff of various organisations. It won’t just be your doctor who has access to this centralised digital record of your personal health information. They are a huge prize for hackers, fetching a high price on the Dark Web.Īfter the Medicare breach, we should be cautious about moving our health records online ![]() Health records are valuable as a means of identity theft due to the wealth of personal information they contain. Storing records digitally with online access greatly increases their accessibility for criminals, hackers and snoopers. We have witnessed a stream of health data breaches in Australia and overseas, and the incentives for these breaches are only increasing. If you read the very long (7,800 words) privacy policy for MHR, you’ll see that the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) itself states there are risks from the online transmission and storage of our personal information in this system. Notwithstanding this fundamental deficiency, the government is pushing ahead with an inherently risky scheme. A recent poll on the AMA’s doctors portal suggests 76% of respondents think the MHR will not improve patient outcomes while 12% think it will. Many doctors have in fact objected to the incompleteness and lack of utility of the MHR. In an emergency, an unreliable record is a distraction, not a help. ![]() If, for example, a doctor were treating a child in an emergency, the doctor could not rely on an MHR to know what medications the child has been prescribed up to that date. The My Health Record system contains an online summary of a patient’s key health information not a complete record of their clinical history. As the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) points out: It can’t be relied upon as a clinical recordĬontrary to what many Australians may believe, MHR is not a clinically-reliable medical record, and was not designed to be. The latest health data breach is one reason why I’ll be opting out of MyHealthRecordġ. UNSW Sydney and University of Canberra provide funding as members of The Conversation AU. Dr Arnold is a Vice-Chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation.ĭavid Vaile is affiliated with the Australian Privacy Foundation (chair), Internet Australia (policy ctee), NSW Law Society (privacy and data ctee), Association of Market and Social Research Organisations (privacy code compliance ctee) and AUSTRAC (privacy consultative ctee), none of which stands to benefit from this article. He has been the Australian representative on high-level OECD Health Data working parties. She is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Future of Finance Initiative in India, the Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation and the Australian Privacy Foundation.īruce Baer Arnold teaches health, consumer protection and privacy law. Katharine Kemp receives funding from The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation. Teacher of cyberspace law, and leader of the Data Protection and Surveillance stream of the Allens Hub for Technology Law and Innovation, UNSW Faculty of Law, UNSW Sydney Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW, and Co-Leader, 'Data as a Source of Market Power' Research Stream of The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW SydneyĪssistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra ![]()
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