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[Sojourner]

[Psyber]

Further to the central health record issue, I got this today:

Dear Colleagues,
At the Gold Coast Medical Association annual meeting a briefing by the Detective Superintendent in charge of Queensland's cyber-crime unit cautioned the PCEHR will not be confidential because it will be hacked has been confirmed by the report below in today's Australian. Patients should be made aware that the PCHER does not guarantee privacy and they should make their decision to upload their medical records accordingly.

The core details were quoted:

The federal government's e-health platform hacked at birth.
BY:FRAN FOO From:The Australian July 03, 2012 12:00AM

THE federal government's e-health platform was hacked while being developed but the incident went undetected for several months.The revelation comes after Accenture, the main contractor for the personally controlled e-health record program, delayed delivery, resulting in only 40 per cent of the system being ready by its July 1 launch date.The hacking incident raises issues of reliability and security of the system as people start to register for an e-health record that would contain their personal details and health information such as medications, allergies and immunisation details.The PCEHR is intended to be a secure electronic summary of people's medical history that is stored and shared in a "network of connected systems".According to sources close to the Department of Health and Ageing, the hacking incident occurred while the PCEHR system was being built late last year, but Accenture discovered it only four months ago....

…..The government's live e-health education website was defaced in May by a group known as LatinHackTeam.The site (http://publiclearning. ehealth.gov.au) was off line for a few days....

…..Also unavailable is information from Medicare that would show medical and pharmaceutical claims in the e-health record, as well as organ donor register data.It is unclear if Accenture was penalised for its performance but the Health Department has since awarded the company a $47m, two-year contract to operate the system.

Meanwhile it isn't happening anyway, until the government comes to its senses - who would sign up to those terms - it is up to the government to make it secure: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/austral ... 6396024950

TWO weeks before the introduction of the Gillard government's $1 billion e-Health scheme not one medical practice has signed up to use it, forcing Canberra to back down on a move to compel doctors to accept full liability for problems with the initiative.

The Department of Health and Ageing this week agreed to remove contentious contract conditions that would have made doctors liable if one of their employees leaked information contained in a patient's electronic health record.

[Interceptor]

Went for a job interview at the Brisbane office of NEHTA a while back.
Came across as being pretty dry stuff, so it didn't particuarly interest me.

Not exactly sure what the "$1 billion" is supposed to deliver, but in any case seems quite excessive to me.
I would expect Accenture are going to come out it very nicely indeed.

[Gozu]

FEARING a diplomatic incident, Australian consular officials in New York have had to step in and settle an outstanding $8000 hotel bill for a Liberal MP who is still refusing to pay.

Federal politician Steve Ciobo has vowed to fight the federal government in court over the account for a three-month stay at New York's ritzy Bristol Plaza late last year while he was on a US exchange program.

An email obtained by The Daily Telegraph revealed the incident reached the highest diplomatic levels in New York, after the hotel issued a letter of demand for the bill to be paid.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/nati ... 6424912282

[Psyber]

I think Steve Ciobo should pay the difference between the standard accommodation on offer and that he chose to take, as it was a personal choice.
If a "cheaper two-bedroom apartment elsewhere", so he could stay with his pregnant wife and their two-year-old child, was available within budget then it would have been reasonable to provide it.

If he thought the officials didn't bother to look for such accommodation, he should have paid the gap and fought the inactive bureaucracy over it afterwards.
MPs get paid enough to cope with that.

[Gozu]

I think Steve Ciobo should pay the difference between the standard accommodation on offer and that he chose to take, as it was a personal choice.
If a "cheaper two-bedroom apartment elsewhere", so he could stay with his pregnant wife and their two-year-old child, was available within budget then it would have been reasonable to provide it.

If he thought the officials didn't bother to look for such accommodation, he should have paid the gap and fought the inactive bureaucracy over it afterwards.
MPs get paid enough to cope with that.

Agreed, he shouldn't have to foot the whole bill just the difference.

[tipper]

isnt that what the dispute is over though? just the difference? the actual apartment he was staying in was worth $14,000 per month, whereas the others were only in apartments worth $11,300 a month. well, at least that is the figures quoted in the advertiser.

[Psyber]

isnt that what the dispute is over though? just the difference? the actual apartment he was staying in was worth $14,000 per month, whereas the others were only in apartments worth $11,300 a month. well, at least that is the figures quoted in the advertiser.

YES.

[Gozu]

Dave Graney was a special guest on tonight's episode of The Drum and when they were talking about Kings Cross etc he gave a special mention to good old Hindley St

It's replayed later tonight at 9:30 on ABC News 24.

[scoob]

http://www.news.com.au/business/carr-cl ... 6433452429

Bob Carr following up on Gillards great foreign relationship building from the G20

[Q.]

Should've said 'up shit creek without a paddle' instead.

[Gozu]

Not a fan of Bob Carr not just because he was the beggining of the NSW Right's destruction of the ALP but has a habit of blurting out whatever pops into his head. Some of his opinions on his blog while he was out of politics weren't all that flash and has been pretty gaffe prone since slithering into the FM gig.

[scoob]

Not a fan of Bob Carr not just because he was the beggining of the NSW Right's destruction of the ALP but has a habit of blurting out whatever pops into his head. Some of his opinions on his blog while he was out of politics weren't all that flash and has been pretty gaffe prone since slithering into the FM gig.

Bob "No, No, That's not what I meant" Carr

[Q.]

Perhaps we'll buy some more broken Joint Strike Fighters to appease the seppos. They do, after all, demand we spend more in our defence budget.

[Psyber]

A friend sent me this amusing anecdote.
I haven't checked the quote so I don't know whether it is accurate.

What have we learned in the last 2067 years?
In 55 BC, Cicero wrote, "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled. Public debt should be reduced.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

[Gozu]

I'm with Psyber lets go back to medieval times, I'm hanging to go find me some witches!

[Psyber]

I'm with Psyber lets go back to medieval times, I'm hanging to go find me some witches!

The medieval period was much more modern than Cicero - a degenerate period after the big collapse of European civilisation around 450 AD.
The Salem Witch Trials were only a mere 320 years ago.

[Gozu]

Queensland LNP freak #34839

ROOKIE Broadwater MP Verity Barton has lambasted rail passengers as "icky", called on welfare payments to be stopped for single parents and couples with children, and said Prime Minister Julia Gillard and former leader Kevin Rudd should stop breathing.

Barton, third-choice LNP candidate for the Gold Coast seat, also said she did not believe in climate change, wanted WorkChoices brought back and described some voters as bogans.

Ms Barton's outrageous views have been posted on her Facebook page.

The 26-year-old beat Labor's four-term veteran Peta-Kaye Croft in the state election in March.

Ms Barton, the state's youngest female in Parliament, got the nod to contest the high-profile seat for the LNP after one candidate resigned when he was caught drink-driving and the replacement candidate was dumped after photos emerged of him taking part in a swingers' club event.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/rook ... 6437556450

[smac]

That last paragraph is a ripper.

[Jimmy_041]

So, he's a swinging voter?