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> If only our government wasn't so inept with IT (we have plenty of good developers here. Why not make our own teams to build things?) I would be able to recomm
by flukus 8y ago
> If only our government wasn't so inept with IT (we have plenty of good developers here. Why not make our own teams to build things?) I would be able to recommend this health initiative to everyone.
It's not the government IT I'm worried about so much, it's all the local doctors that get access to medical records and have inept IT security. Previously if there was a breach at a practice it was only the data of the patients of that practice, now if there is a breach at a practice they can potentially access the medical records anyone in the country.
The attack surface is huge and largely unguarded and now there is a massive reward for breaching it.
> I suppose it may also help me if I end up in ED unconscious and have some health condition they would need to know about.
This can be solved with a card in your wallet, which they have to go into to find which health records to lookup anyway.
- jazoom 8y agoYou have a really good point about local practice security. I agree. I disagree about the card in wallet thing. Patients won't keep it updated. Also, most patients won't have it on them. And for many patients it would have to be a book, rather than a card. See my other comment talking about medications.
- sytringy05 8y agoPEXA have pointed this out in great expensive detail with conveyancers. Every week there's a $300k theft of house sale settlements, always because some hacker has gained control of the settlement party's account. I doubt medical practices are as bad as backyard shops like conveyancers but you are spot on, the incentives are definitely there