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Kevin Rudd and PositiveID

From July 1 st every single Australian will be branded with a unique, 1.16 digit identification number courtesy of Medicare Australia in accordance with Kevin Rudd's new e-health revolution. The stated purpose of this act2."is to provide a way of ensuring that an entity that provides, or an individual who receives, healthcare iscorrectly matched to health information that is created when healthcare is provided." Understandably it is asimple transition from localized medical records to an online system, that would allow your medical records tobe accessed by medical facilities all across Australia.

For many this would seem to be the perfect solution toholiday accidents and prevent any unnecessary delayswhen facing treatment from an uncommon doctor whowould require any past medical records. If a doctor in adifferent state previously treated you, they would needto determine if any further treatments/medications couldcause adverse reactions to a prescription you or your

family might currently be on. Having access to your usual doctors detailed medical reports, anywhere in thecountry, might just be a life saver. But is there more toit than meets the eye? There is indeed a surreptitiousplan to set up the ground work for this system toprogress seamlessly to implantable RFID microchips.All that would be required is a simple distribution of thePositiveID microchip and the necessary RFID scannersinto the medical infrastructure the software side wouldalready be functioning at full steam.

3."The Australian healthcare sector is a complex of public and private interests, hospital and

community facilities, GP's, laboratories, health funds, professional assoc iations, special interest groups andindividual consumers". The introduction of this system would aim to revolutionize the way medical records areaccessed and updated, ensuring every time it is accessed by a medical professional, the information is up todate and accurate. 4.Privacy advocates have lambasted the proposed bill quoting medical record privacybreaches, in 2007-2008 there were 234 serious accounts of this occurring yet 160 of these resulted in anemailed warning or counseling. If the Unique patient identification number was to go ahead, Australian PrivacyFoundation chair Roger Clarke said "The situation will be many hundreds of times worse, as the HI databasewill ultimately be accessed by more than 600,000 medical providers and organizations".

Knowing of the obvious security flaws that are inherent with a system of this scale, why does the Ruddgovernment choose to bulldoze it into legislation? Could this in fact be the Hegelian dialectic at work? It couldvery well be a future road map that would lead to the more 'secure' method of accessing medical records viaRFID implants as scores of complaints flood the media regarding security breaches and invasions of 'privacy'.Scott R. Silverman, chairman and CEO of PositiveID claims 5."In addition to helping consumers protectthemselves from identity theft as it pertains to credit fraud, we are also focused on combating the growingproblem of medical identity theft, which affects 7 percent of identity theft victims". How noble of Scott.

Lets move to the hardware side of things, as we already have established that Medicare is providing the 16 digitnumber. Why 16-digits? Introducing the PositiveID implantable RFID microchip. The microchip itself 6.containsonly a 16-digit number that when scanned with a hand held reader, connects to a secure online database. Thedatabase houses the patient's identification information and personal health record data. The Council of Australian Governments even state themselves that 7."The identifiers are an important building block for the

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