Is Anyone Thinking About The Privacy Implications Of All This Information Sharing On An Automatic And Routine Basis?

A couple of articles popped up this week that made me ask just what was going on. First we had this:28 June 2017NSW throws some serious money at digital healthPosted by Julie Lambert NSW will inject more than half a billion dollars in digital systems to bring patient health records, medications management and the sharing of pathology results into the 21st century.NSW treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the $536 million outlay over eight years reflected the position of e-health as the “most important revolution in healthcare”, adding the investment would lift efficiency.Specific spending items include $236 million for digital patient records, to ensure patient records are easy to read, instantly accessible and accurate, and to extend the state’s electronic medications manag ement (eMeds) program. The full roll-out of eMeds would bring a significant advance in medications management to assure patient safety, eHealth NSW CEO and CIO Zoran Bolevich told The Medical Republic.“We’ll move from...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 5, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs