ZDNet Does A Much Better Than Average Job Of Explaining The #myHealthRecord Data Breaches.

This appeared last week:My Health Record had 42 data breaches in 2017-18 but no 'malicious' attacks: ADHAHighest category of breaches was due to attempted Medicare fraud, the Australian Digital Health Agency has said in its 2017-18 annual report.By Chris Duckett | December 31, 2018 -- 02:49 GMT (13:49 AEDT) | Topic: Security Australia's troubled My Health Record recorded 42 data breaches between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018, the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has said in its 2017-18 annual report [PDF]. Three of the breaches were reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and involved one breach of unauthorised access due to an incorrect Parental Authorised Representative being assigned to a child, and two breaches due to suspected Medicare fraud that resulted in the potential fraudster seeing records without authority. ADHA also said 17 breaches were found from the Department of Human Services identifying intertwined records where two or more... 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