"The visual design of the button made it difficult to tell whether clicking on or off gave consent or removed it," Ms De Sain told The New Daily.
Clicking the button merely changed its colour to a slightly different shade of blue.
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De Sain said the pathologist had not been informed or trained on how to use it. It involved De Sain witnessing a pathologist pressing a new button to block individual items from being uploaded to My Health Record. The flaw was spotted by Rachel De Sain, a former employee of the agency behind My Health Record, who said it could risk patient privacy. The law was also changed to ensure no record could be released to police or government agencies, for any purpose, without a court order, after it was revealed this could occur. Previously, they were only able to "cancel" or "suspend" their record without actually expunging them. Implemented changesĪs part of a number of changes to the system last year designed to address concerns, the population will now be able to delete their record permanently even after they have been opted in.
Exactly how data will be de-identified is yet to be explained in full detail, leading to concerns from academics like security researcher Dr Vanessa Teague, from the University of Melbourne, suggesting that it may not be done right.Įarlier this week, doctors were seeking legal advice over whether they may be held liable for mishaps that occur as a result of incorrect patient data on My Health Record, as the task of populating millions of new records puts pressure on GPs, specialists and hospitals. It will also share your "de-identified" health data for research purposes unless you revoke permission to "secondary use" of your information.
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