My health record
We had an interesting discussion at the airfield today about the new "my health record" system that comes into place in the next few days. Several at the airport see this as an opportunity for CASA, should they wish, to go data mining through the records to find little secrets that have not been reported during your medical checkups.
Several in the group said that they had two separate doctors that they visited, one for common things like a cold, a cut etc and another doctor who looked after their major medical events like diabetes, heart disease and so on. (Please note that none of these are commercial pilots they are just sport pilots flying two seat aircraft)
These people were adamant that CASA would mine the records and catch them out because when they went for a CASA medical they only reported the doctor they visited for minor ailments and having access to all of the records would highlight a second or a third doctor in the background including any specialists.
It is a very interesting subject that will probably affect a lot of older pilots.
The medical records are available to any medical person and I assume this also means a CASA doctor, acting for and on behalf of CASA.
You can even set up an automatic notification to receive an email or a text when somebody accesses your health record but what good is this if it is CASA and they have already gone in and downloaded everything that they need for a review of your medical status.
This subject created a lot of lively debate at the airport this morning with pretty much everybody unanimously agreeing that you need to opt out.
I am surprised that this has not been talked about previously and I bring up this subject to see what is everyone else doing ?