The Wire

Need to upgrade some software? Why just get the IT people in to do an upgrade, when you can use the opportunity to sell off the whole operation to a private corporation to run? This is the Government’s idea to avoid spending money on the existing system. But what exactly could happen to our confidential medical records? Could they end up in a data silo in Bangalore? And what of the thousands of Medicare employees? Plans are well advanced and a ‘proof of concept’ trial is apparently slated in a year.

West Australian