I would have thought that the fundamental reason for centralised medical records is cost savings and better health care.
It isn't just about you personally. It's the aggregate effects that a government should be interested in, i.e. better value from health spending (which if you haven't noticed is Big and Increasing.) This has risks but it also has clear benefits. There's a lot of focus on risks but not a lot on benefits (or outright denial that there are any benefits at all which is to my mind about as sane as antivaxer stuff). In general, the health system is rife with silos of information that are unavailable to inform individual or policy decisions. There are enormous benefits from evidence-based medicine and we certainly aren't there yet. No one has "skin in the game" for the aggregate benefits, or at least not directly. Suppose, for example, the government billed anyone without a MyHR record the full cost of unnecessary duplicate tests, would this change attitudes. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
