Another Uninformed Commentary Regarding The myHR Appears In The Mainstream Press.

This appeared during last week:We can gain a lot by sharing our sensitive health dataSam Crosby Published: March 29, 2017 - 12:00AM Years back, I worked with a group of people who had contracted Hepatitis C. The experience of one woman stayed with me. Julie looked every inch your average working mum. Hep C was a hangover of a past life she was desperate to escape. But when she confided her positive status to a co-worker, word spread throughout her office. She found herself shunned by one group of fearful colleagues, and pitied by another.Julie's story stuck with me, because it was such a striking example of how sensitive medical data is. Its unauthorised release wrecked her work life.It's this sensitivity that has meant the benefits of e-health have eluded our nation for a decade.We know that fully digitising and unifying our personal medical data would dramatically improve our health and save billions each year. Yet our decision makers are jumpy... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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