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My Health Record
OK good folk of the forum, what do you think?
As people with a complex health issue, with multiple specialists, this is something that directly impacts us, and could benefit us greatly (memory issues anyone?!).
However there's privacy issues (any government department can access it without your knowledge), identity theft, insurance denial, employment issues etc.
I just asked my GP about it today and she is officially undecided. She said get back to me on that one, the practice is having a meeting about it tomorrow!
To opt out or not, that is the question. Would love to hear your thoughts.
As people with a complex health issue, with multiple specialists, this is something that directly impacts us, and could benefit us greatly (memory issues anyone?!).
However there's privacy issues (any government department can access it without your knowledge), identity theft, insurance denial, employment issues etc.
I just asked my GP about it today and she is officially undecided. She said get back to me on that one, the practice is having a meeting about it tomorrow!
To opt out or not, that is the question. Would love to hear your thoughts.
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- Interesting discussion. Seems to me an Australia Card (years ago an outcry against) by stealth. I know we have a huge foot print on line with banking, purchases, bills, browsing - nothing safe. I have opted out of this because I have a choice now and may not later. The tax office, banks, centrelink and other government agencies have enough info on me already. Not ready to give it all away yet. Tired of living in "Big Brother" land.; Even in opting out I had to prove who I was.. wonder what happens with that information.; sigh.
Now we wait for the other obvious major change required - to opt in rather than opt out.- I opted out. Im sure it will be easy to opt back in if needed or wanted in future. For now, due to lack of trust in the online world, Im out. It took 5 minutes.
Contrary to what many Australians may believe, MHR is not a clinically-reliable medical record, and was not designed to be. It is not up-to-date and comprehensive.
- @Romla I'm opting out my children.
- I think I’ll stay in for MDH and I as we are retirees but worried for my kids so will opt them out. Don’t want my details sold off however like in our recent byelection to be constantly hounded .
- I've opted out. For the moment. I'm not happy with many things about this system. Once I see some of those concerns addressed, I'll opt back in.
For me, at the moment, in an emergency situation the only drug that would be critical is my blood pressure meds. Someone will figure that out. Everything else could be suspended until I'm well enough to request them, or I'm totally screwed in which case it doesn't matter. That may change.
Between Medicare, Centrelink, the ATO, linked in, Facebook, Gmail, yahoo, Microsoft Office 365, Reckon1 and God knows who else, there are few secrets in my life, but as soon as I hear 'If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' I go all bolshie. - @Kattykit I'm just on the side of staying in. I do like the aspect of all doctors being clear on what the others are doing by being able to access my records. I have nothing to hide and as @SoldierCrab says, our lives are pretty much all online now. I will watch it like a hawk though. Any policy change and I'll be opting out quick smart.
- I am going to stay in, being single and poor as a church mouse on a dsp pension and being so unwell, I like the idea of any doctor being able to access my records when needed if I am away from home.
