Update: Australians who do not want their medical records stored on the national electronic database, My Health Record, will have until Jan. 31, 2019 to opt-out.
The federal government has approved on Nov. 14 a last-minute extension to the opt-out period for My Health Record to Jan. 31, 2019. The opt-out deadline for the electronic health record system was initially extended by a month to Nov. 15.
