Privacy debate has helped My Health Record: Digital Health Agency's Tim Kelsey
The head of the Australian Digital Health Agency says weeks of controversy around a national medical record database has actually helped the system, through increasing community awareness.
More than 20,000 people left the My Health Record system at the start of a three-month opt-out period, amid weeks of criticism from digital security and privacy advocates and warnings cloud-based records would be hacked.
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