Initial Press Responses To The Auditor General Report On The #MyHealthRecord.

The first we had was the AAP report.Agencies fail My Health privacy audit By Finbar O'MallonNovember 25, 2019 — 3.07pmMost of the emergency access requests made by third parties to Australians' digital health records were unjustified, the national auditor has found.The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) said government agencies overseeing Australians' digital health records didn't properly manage or consider the cyber security and privacy risks.The auditor made a number of recommendations to improve privacy and cyber security in its report released on Monday.   It recommended agencies develop shared privacy and security risks frameworks for the My Health Record system, pointing to the fact only 8.2 per cent of requests by third parties to get "emergency access" to a patients' records met guidelines.  The private health sector also reported the highest number of data breaches, with 40 per cent in 2018 due to malicious or criminal... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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