Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says Australians will be able to opt in to the country's e-health system when it begins in 2012--rather than having it imposed on them--advocating for the system's gradual growth, the Courier Mail reports. Meanwhile, the government has decided that celebrities, politicians and victims of domestic violence will be given fake identities to prevent hacking into their electronic medical records. The government will allow patients who "fear public exposure due to the public nature of their work" or who fear "being traceable when escaping family violence" to use pseudonyms under the new e-health system, which one doctor says will undermine public trust and diminish accuracy.
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