Medical appointment booking app HealthEngine sharing clients' personal information with lawyers Australia's biggest online doctor's appointment booking service, HealthEngine, has funnelled hundreds of users' private medical information to law firms seeking clients for personal injury claims. June 24, 2018 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-25/healthengine-sharing-patients-information-with-lawyers/9894114
My personal view is that this kind of commercial healthcare sharing is one of the most wicked practices of any of the shocking things that this uncontrolled data dissemination does. One of the most valuable things that could happen from a healthcare perspective is for population-scale longitudinal mass healthcare outcomes in a well-anonomised database to be available. On the Richter scale of public good, this would be right up there. This requires public confidence that the data will not be misused - which sadly has been betrayed not only as in this case, but in terrible examples in the UK too. Many shorter lives and misused resources will result from these pathetic tactical money-grubbing wheezes, and I wish the perpetrators were put in the stocks.
http://www.nsd.uib.no/nsd/english/individualdata.html Some amazing research has been based on that data. But then, they've been hacked https://www.healthcare-informatics....ach-norwegian-health-authority-could-impact-3
Totally disgusting. CEO Dr Marcus Tan should be strung up, flogged and then hanged. No surprise then that scum like this does this: hxxps : // www .smh .com.au/healthcare/very-poor-gp-booking-service-healthengine-sanitises-patient-reviews-20180608-p4zkb6.html
@mirimir - I don't actually mind being hacked if the data has been well-anonymised. It is impossible to do a full job, but the important thing is not to sell the data, ensure public benefit at all times, and not to have it definitively attributable to you. The enormous public good outweighs the slight personal costs involved, particularly if you constrain what insurers can do with the data. One of the most astonishing and apparently naive events was the London teaching hospital giving its data to Google Deep Mind. Absolutely crazy. The UK public are sitting on a gold-mine and we apparently give it away to commercial entities without asserting things like IP and ownership on it. So we'd end up being charged by Google for the analysis of our own data, which they also monetise elsewhere? Sheesh. I remember as well the UK Health Secretary Jeremy Richard Streynsham Hunt was going to sell healthcare records to insurers at 1GPB a pop before he was found out.
HealthEngine Offered $25 Gift Vouchers For Dental Invoices Patients, Dentist Alarmed By HealthEngine, Which Claims It Had Consent July 9, 2018 https://www.inforisktoday.com/healthengine-offered-25-gift-vouchers-for-dental-invoices-a-11180
