This appeared a few days ago.Health records ‘vulnerable to hacking’, expert warnsSue Dunlevy, National Health Reporter, News Corp Australia NetworkJuly 3, 2017 10:00pmEXCLUSIVETHE health records of every single Australian, including the Prime Minister, will be vulnerable to a hacking attack from next year, an IT expert has warned.The private health information of every Australian will be put into a centralised data base when the government automatically creates a digital My Health Record for everyone in 2018 unless they opt out.The record will reveal whether people have had an abortion, a sexually transmitted disease, a mental illness and other potentially sensitive health information.Paul Power, who heads Power Associates, a company that has been doing IT consultant work for medical practices for 17 years, says the system is extremely vulnerable to hacking because it centralises information and has so many access points in hospitals and doctors’ surgeries.“A centralised eHealth...
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