Are We Seeing The Bipartisan Support For The myHR Begin To Fracture?

This appeared last week:  ‘This is a Government with a woeful track record on IT security and privacy.’Megan Haggan — 15/05/2018Catherine King, Shadow Minister for HealthCatherine King has challenged the Turnbull Government on whether it can roll out the My Health Record system without getting it wrongIt’s been heral ded as a “game changer” by the PSA’s Shane Jackson and “strategically very valuable” for pharmacy by the Guild’s David Quilty… but the Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare has suggested that the Government may not be able to implement the system with effective privacy controls in pl ace.This week the Health Minister, Greg Hunt, announced that Australians who want to opt out of having a My Health Record can do so between 16 July and 15 October 2018.Ms King says that Labor supports e-health: “Implemented by a competent Government, e-health could deliver tangible health care imp rovements and save the health system up to $7 billion a year through fewer diagnosis,... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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