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My Health Record

November 2023

Health Minister Mark Butler.

Healius slammed over withheld patient data

Health Minister Mark Butler says test results have been withheld from the My Health Record digital platform since mid-September.

  • Tom McIlroy

February 2023

February 23, 2023

Letter: Super weapon can help fight inflation

Interest rates, superannuation and tax reform; Peter Dutton and the Voice; migration rate; health data, safeguard mechanism; Russia-Ukraine war.

A reasonable concern about adding to carbon emissions shouldn’t be interpreted as a wish to stop all mining.

Letters: Hostility to mining, or to coal?

All mining isn’t coal mining; fossil fuel ban; uninterrupted power supply; population as a growth strategy; wrong anti-inflation levers; red tape; digital health records; Commonwealth Bank.

November 2022

“When a patient goes to a doctor, there’s no guarantee that doctor can look up their pathology results,” says Federal Health Minister Mark Butler.

My Health Record struggles to be useful for patients

Patchy clinical use and lack of useful patient information is hindering the uptake of the national e-health system.

  • Tom Burton

July 2021

Accenture has won a one-year extension to its My Health Record System management contract.

Accenture wins $57m My Health Record contract extension

Accenture has won a one-year extension to continue managing the My Health Record System management for the Australian Digital Health Agency.

  • Edmund Tadros
The three-year contract is with the Australian Digital Health Agency, the body that runs the My Health Record system for the federal government.

Deloitte wins $18m My Health Record contract

It will create a platform that will allow developers to build apps and software for the e-health system My Health Record.

  • Edmund Tadros

July 2020

Thousands of MyGov logins are for sale on the dark web.

Hacked: Thousands of MyGov accounts for sale on dark web

Logins for more than 3600 MyGov accounts are for sale on the dark web, potentially exposing thousands of Australians to fraud and identity theft.

  • Ronald Mizen

August 2019

Until citizens are given the legal right to control how their personal data is used, we will continue to see tech companies abuse the misplaced trust of users.

Legal holes and cavalier companies make a joke of data human rights

Until citizens are given the legal right to control how their personal data is used, we will continue to see tech companies abuse the misplaced trust of users.

  • Paul Smith

June 2019

Apple Watch features detailed tracking of many different data points. From heart rate to activity and a particularly refined fall detection system that can call emergency services should an incident occur.

What government should have learnt from Apple before e-health failure

Ten per cent of Australians have opted out of the government's My Health Record, yet millions of people let Apple, Samsung and Fitbit track their daily habits.

  • Seamus Byrne

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