My health records pacific11/12/2023 ![]() Unfortunately my GP retired years ago, my optometrist a few years later, my DAME last year and my dentist yesterday. Records are still gathered and easily shared amongst the privileged, the rest is just the same old public facade.Īll my health specialists were all old school and although technically brilliant they understood the fallacies of the perfect human specimen all too well. My cynical self believes the "OPT OUT" exercise simply ticks a box in this system and does nothing else. I am surprised that this has not been talked about previously and I bring up this subject to see what is everyone else doing ? This subject created a lot of lively debate at the airport this morning with pretty much everybody unanimously agreeing that you need to opt out. ![]() You can even set up an automatic notification to receive an email or a text when somebody accesses your health record but what good is this if it is CASA and they have already gone in and downloaded everything that they need for a review of your medical status. The medical records are available to any medical person and I assume this also means a CASA doctor, acting for and on behalf of CASA. It is a very interesting subject that will probably affect a lot of older pilots. These people were adamant that CASA would mine the records and catch them out because when they went for a CASA medical they only reported the doctor they visited for minor ailments and having access to all of the records would highlight a second or a third doctor in the background including any specialists. (Please note that none of these are commercial pilots they are just sport pilots flying two seat aircraft) Several in the group said that they had two separate doctors that they visited, one for common things like a cold, a cut etc and another doctor who looked after their major medical events like diabetes, heart disease and so on. Several at the airport see this as an opportunity for CASA, should they wish, to go data mining through the records to find little secrets that have not been reported during your medical checkups. We had an interesting discussion at the airfield today about the new "my health record" system that comes into place in the next few days.
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