Here We Go Again With The Government Expanding What It Can Use Our Health Data For.

I have to say I am really getting sick of this!This appeared last week:Government prepares to match Medicare, Centrelink data to combat fraudNew data-matching initiative follows on heels of controversial ‘robodebt’ programRohan Pearce (Computerworld) 29 July, 2019 10:48 The Department of Human Services is preparing to launch a new program that will combine data from Centrelink and Medicare in an effort to unearth discrepancies between records held at the two agencies. Protocols for the program s tate that it will seek to find differences in the recording of “life events” for individuals that have records with Medicare and Centrelink. “Where expected life events have not occurred this may highlight high-risk identities and the need for further analysis to determine possible fraudulent behaviour and/or record correctness,” the document states. Senior lecturer in administrative law at La Trobe, Darren Donovan, was the first to note the publication of the new protocol. Human Services’... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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