What worries you most about the government's personally
controlled e-health record (PCEHR) plan? Is it the cost of
implementation? Is it the fact that there's not a lot of incentive for
doctors to take it up? Or is it the fact that if not implemented
properly, it could be a privacy nightmare?
With doctors for parents, I know what would be concerning them the most.
Doctors can be fanatical about privacy, and with good reason.
At the end of December, a report by Lawyers Minter Ellison and Salinger
Privacy was released by the Department of Health and Ageing into the
privacy implications of the legislation enabling the government's PCEHR plan,
which hopes to provide every consenting Australian with an electronic
medical record by 2012. The Department of Health and Ageing has also provided its responses to the recommendations in the report...
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