I note this morning that the Federal Government has announced the introduction of a nationwide E - Health record for every Australian , this time with an "Opt Out" provision only.
Budget 2015: New 'opt out' e-health system to see all Australians given electronic record - Federal Budget 2015 - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
My First thought is that our beloved former head of CASA Avmed resigned Four months too soon. What a smorgasbord of medical conditions will be revealed to CASA!!!! How many thousands of medical certificates can now be cancelled when all is revealed!
The teenage pre menstrual problems listed as "depression", the blokes who consulted a psychiatrist Twenty years ago. The teenage flirtation with marijuana that led to heavy prescriptions of SSRis. The undisclosed cancers and surgery. The "doctor shopping" to avoid disclosing your full medical history to a DAME!!!
All gone at the stroke of a key!!!! "Opt Out" you say? CASA will fix that, you opt out then no medical certificate for you! Privacy? Fiddlesticks! Look at what Andreas Lubitz did!
Think of the court cases! Think of all those pitiful AAT hearings! Think of all that, and available at the press of a few keys! "OK today boys, we are going to look for any pilot who has ever recorded a high reading on a liver function test or been prescribed Librax of valium at the same consultation, ready boys! Go!".
And tomorrow they go after anyone holding a medical certificate who has been treated at a ski resort for a broken bone, then we go after pilots with elevated PSA, the list is endless.
Everyone has something in their medical records that requires detailed explanation and Avmed is going to seek the rights to pore through yours, sure as eggs is eggs.