Scams like these

[Brissy1]

They don’t have that info for me nor do I recall being asked.

The ability to make payments via the platform is a new’ish feature - which no doubt is their main attraction…

If you've never given them your med history fine (unless your siblings have); but I booked appointment at a new practice just last week (phoned the practice). Soon after I received a text from hotdocs stating I "need" to fill out their form (requiring of course agreeing to their terms of use and their privacy (i.e. disclosure) policy) with extensive questions about my medical history, including whether same questions/conditions applied to parents and siblings. If any questions were not answered you couldn't proceed through the form. So I didn't.

Although if you're concerned about the accuracy of information they hold about you, you can request a copy of the info but (as agreed by ticking the Consent to Terms of Use) they'll charge you an unspecified amount.

 

[SYD]

If you've never given them your med history fine (unless your siblings have); but I booked appointment at a new practice just last week (phoned the practice). Soon after I received a text from hotdocs stating I "need" to fill out their form (requiring of course agreeing to their terms of use and their privacy (i.e. disclosure) policy) with extensive questions about my medical history, including whether same questions/conditions applied to parents and siblings. If any questions were not answered you couldn't proceed through the form. So I didn't.

Although if you're concerned about the accuracy of information they hold about you, you can request a copy of the info but (as agreed by ticking the Consent to Terms of Use) they'll charge you an unspecified amount.

Probably too late but another practice would be the go.

I’ve never done that for my GP. The only other practitioner is the occasional physio.

I’d refuse to do that and wait to do a paper form. Mind you, that probably gets loaded onto an even less secure database…

 

[AuSammy]

When the clinic I was going to introduced hotdocs, I changed clinics. Bonus: $78 per visit (-minus rebate after the fact) became bulk-bill $0.

 

[Brissy1]

Probably too late but another practice would be the go.

I’ve never done that for my GP. The only other practitioner is the occasional physio.

I’d refuse to do that and wait to do a paper form. Mind you, that probably gets loaded onto an even less secure database…

Great doctor, and the practice had no issues with my not agreeing to hotdocs having my medical history. I don't think I was the 1st.
Agee individual dr practice is probably less technically secure, but on a population basis (eg Medibank size) less likely that your personal info will be misused imo.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

AT(0) seems to have so many gmail staff members now, wry, tongue in cheek.
I mean, officially...
Point taken that ATO staff members do have gmail accounts, for leisure, but (I am being taken to the courthouse) by a gmail sender...
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Hotdoc, I used them to get a med cert, to extend from my leg pain early onset athritis, as my normal doc didnt give me a longer time off, but Hotdoc are not the same as escrips are they?
I guess that maybe someone/group has either broken into Hotdoc and set up a copy with the data, or that Hotdoc sold off data.
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Guess tho, if the fake Hotdoc email does not have my name, then its probably generic, and the scammers have just copied the Hotdoc logo, as they did with the ATO and AFP one a while back.
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Anyone had any any new emails with the Chrissy B as sender, now that Reece had resigned.

 

[VPS]

Not sure if they are going to slash my energy bills or slosh them