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Australia could be world leader with its digital medical data banks
26 August 2019 - Australia is behind global peers in adopting technology in healthcare but it has an opportunity to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
Chinese stealing health and medical research data: report
21 August 2019 - The global healthcare sector, including Australia, faces increasing cyber threats and malicious activity from Chinese groups, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2019
Insurers snooping in our health records
9 August 2019 - Life insurers have trawled through the medical records of 150,000 Australians in an attempt to deny ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jul 2019
Academies call on health minsters to resolve health data issues
15 July 2019 - Regulatory barriers that limit timely access to population and health data must be resolved to achieve ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2019
NICE explores extending its use of data to inform its guidance
25 June 2019 - NICE has revised its earlier press release on the use of real world data to inform ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Feb 2019
My Health Record opt-out doubles to 2.5 million people
20 February 2019 - The number of Australians who opted out of the My Health Record system doubled after the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Feb 2019
My Health Record reflects 'new consensus', says CEO Tim Kelsey
19 February 2019 - The government's controversial My Health Record was part of a "new consensus" on digital health, said ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Feb 2019
Comparing PHARMAC's outcomes with those of Australia
7 February 2019 - New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ahern's claim that is unfair to compare PHARMAC's outcomes with those ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Jan 2019
My Health Record enshrines choice
24 January 2019 - A change in the law enabling people to delete permanently their My Health Record, should strengthen ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jan 2019
China has a very unhealthy interest in our medical data
14 January 2019 - Chinese companies are required by law to obey directives from Beijing's intelligence agencies. So why would ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2018
My Health Record opt-out deadline extended after system crash
14 November 2018 - Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has agreed to extend the My Health Record opt-out deadline, after ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2018
Health Minister Greg Hunt to announce My Health Record changes
6 November 2018 - Health Minister Greg Hunt is poised to announce long-awaited changes to the government's My Health Record ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2018
My Health Record system crashes as Australians rush to opt out
6 November 2018 - The My Health Record telephone opt-out service has overloaded and crashed as Australians rush to opt ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Nov 2018
17 million Australians to be automatically enrolled in My Health record
5 November 2018 - About 17 million Australians will be automatically enrolled in the My Health record if they do ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Sep 2018
Quality assurance of registries for health technology assessment
25 September 2018 - The aim of this study was to identify guidelines and assessment tools used by health technology agencies ...