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Privacy debate has helped My Health Record: Digital Health Agency's Tim Kelsey

Tom McIlroy
Tom McIlroyCanberra Bureau Chief

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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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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com

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