This Discussion On The Legal Challenges Surrounding the #myHealthRecord Needs Wider Dissemination.

This appeared last week:10 December 2018My Health Record: legal challengesBianca Phillips David VaileIssue 48 / 10 December 2018 THIS article is the second in a series on “the making of the digital health revolution”. It outlines some of the legal challenges under the Australian Government’s My Health Record scheme – the privacy of patients and clinicians, the ownership of records, and approaches to law making in fields of emerging technology.Privacy of the p atientWhile there are issues that affect all who have a My Health Record, certain patients are particularly vulnerable to privacy breaches under this scheme. The risk to some patients, including children, people with disabilities, the elderly, those experiencing family abuse, and the parties to a cu stody dispute, is that their records may be accessible by unauthorised relatives or carers, and such breaches may go undetected and unreported.Another privacy consideration is the effect of the “opt-out” model, which was adopted after... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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