2018: Why My Health Record is Flawed

My article “Why My Health Record is Flawed”. Published in CIO, 21 August 2018.

PDF of the article can be found here.

As the former chief technology architect of the Health and Human Services Access Card, I opted out of My Health Record on day one. Here’s why.

The politically designed or influenced model of a centralised database with widespread access at the edge is deeply flawed. This was the Access Card model and it’s being done again with My Health Record.