Privacy experts say that people should opt out now or give a good consideration of not leaving your personal health record with the Australian government for the next 3 months until the end of 15th October 2018, while advocates claims that leaving your health data with government is much safer and there are many benefits for doing that.
From Last Monday the 16th July 2018, Australians who did not inform government will be automatically registered online with My Health Record unless they opt out or choose not to let's their personal health data be kept online at my health record website.
Australian Privacy Foundation Committee Chair, Dr. Bernard Robertson-Dunn said that people should opt out now or they can decide during this three months till mid October 2018 whether they will let's the Australian government keep their personal health record online or they choose not to allow this.
Dr. Robertson-Dunn said that 'The government doesn't own it. it is the custodian of the data. But the government has complete control over it. That means that, if you want to delete the data, the government won't. They might hide it but they will not delete it.'
But Professor Meredith Makeham from the Digital Health Alliance disagree with that idea, claiming 'it offers people with ranges of benefits particularly around safer and better health outcomes.'
Professor Makeham said that ' there is no complacency here. We constantly surveil and threat test the system and it operates a defence-level standards.'
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt also added that he has confident in this system, and it is a world leading system which maintain medical information any nation would have as 6 million Australians has register for the last 6 years without any breach.
In additional to that, the National Rural Health Alliance chief executive Mark Diamond also sum that rural and regional areas will benefits from this medical data made available online for doctors in case of 'life-threatening situations'.
People are encouraged to check My Health Record Website for more information whether to participate or opting out by 15th October 2018.#
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