A Press Release From eHealth Privacy Australia - More Grist To The Mill

I was sent this today: ------ MEDIA RELEASE Medicare data breach and My Health Records: Inquiry is not enough. (For immediate release) While the government's announced inquiry into a problem with Medicare data access is to be applauded, fundamental questions remain. “A centralised eHealth database accessible over the Internet to over 100,000 legitimate access points, (#1) each of which has access to the entire database, is fundamentally indefensible,” said eHealth data consultant and eHealth Privacy Australia principal, Paul Power, as quoted in the media. (#2) Unless a public inquiry urgently investi gates the fundamental vulnerability of the proposed database of the My Health Records system and recommends appropriate changes, we will be no further forward with either safety or security. It is insufficient to recommend changes that will merely lead to an improvement in security. There is a need to understand what is technically possible and how that will allow... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - Category: Information Technology Authors: Source Type: blogs