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ACRRM has provided feedback to the recent public consultation, noting that in places the consultation goes beyond the scope of the healthcare sector and makes a number of suggestions which should be viewed with caution. The College has voiced concerns over proposals to amend the definition of “health service” under the Privacy Act.
The Healthcare Identifiers Framework Project aims to align the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (the Act) and the Health Identifiers Service (HI Service) with the expectations of healthcare consumers that health information can follow them throughout their health and wellbeing journey.
The increased use of the HI Service to identify healthcare recipients at the point of care and associate healthcare information with those recipients across the healthcare ecosystem. has the potential to facilitate safe and secure connection of health information across the health sector. However, the appropriate regulatory framework and legislation need to be in place and any changes to the current framework underpinned by a patient centred system, which ensures the sharing of HIs supports improvements which benefit patients, health practitioners and the wider health system.
The need to assure both patients and GPs that health information is confidential and secure and demonstrate how information will be utilised if and when it is shared, is of paramount importance in an increasingly digital world.
The Healthcare Identifiers Framework Project aims to align the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (the Act) and the Health Identifiers Service (HI Service) with the expectations of healthcare consumers that health information can follow them throughout their health and wellbeing journey.
The increased use of the HI Service to identify healthcare recipients at the point of care and associate healthcare information with those recipients across the healthcare ecosystem. has the potential to facilitate safe and secure connection of health information across the health sector. However, the appropriate regulatory framework and legislation need to be in place and any changes to the current framework underpinned by a patient centred system, which ensures the sharing of HIs supports improvements which benefit patients, health practitioners and the wider health system.
The need to assure both patients and GPs that health information is confidential and secure and demonstrate how information will be utilised if and when it is shared, is of paramount importance in an increasingly digital world.
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ACRRM has provided feedback to the recent public consultation, noting that in places the consultation goes beyond the scope of the healthcare sector and makes a number of suggestions which should be viewed with caution. The College has voiced concerns over proposals to amend the definition of “health service” under the Privacy Act.
The Healthcare Identifiers Framework Project aims to align the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (the Act) and the Health Identifiers Service (HI Service) with the expectations of healthcare consumers that health information can follow them throughout their health and wellbeing journey.
The increased use of the HI Service to identify healthcare recipients at the point of care and associate healthcare information with those recipients across the healthcare ecosystem. has the potential to facilitate safe and secure connection of health information across the health sector. However, the appropriate regulatory framework and legislation need to be in place and any changes to the current framework underpinned by a patient centred system, which ensures the sharing of HIs supports improvements which benefit patients, health practitioners and the wider health system.
The need to assure both patients and GPs that health information is confidential and secure and demonstrate how information will be utilised if and when it is shared, is of paramount importance in an increasingly digital world.
The Healthcare Identifiers Framework Project aims to align the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (the Act) and the Health Identifiers Service (HI Service) with the expectations of healthcare consumers that health information can follow them throughout their health and wellbeing journey.
The increased use of the HI Service to identify healthcare recipients at the point of care and associate healthcare information with those recipients across the healthcare ecosystem. has the potential to facilitate safe and secure connection of health information across the health sector. However, the appropriate regulatory framework and legislation need to be in place and any changes to the current framework underpinned by a patient centred system, which ensures the sharing of HIs supports improvements which benefit patients, health practitioners and the wider health system.
The need to assure both patients and GPs that health information is confidential and secure and demonstrate how information will be utilised if and when it is shared, is of paramount importance in an increasingly digital world.