In Secret e-health reports to be released Galexia, Clutz, Mallesons
“Consideration should be given to imposing explicit restrictions on the use of the identifier and other data for non-healthcare-related purposes,” it says. Mallesons also recommends that consideration be given to establishing a separate, statutory, healthcare identifier authority, “which could subcontract the issuing of individual identifiers and operation of the service to Medicare, under the authority’s supervision”.
From the DoHA FAQ
Pseudonyms are used when seeking healthcare, in a variety of situations, often for very legitimate reasons such as for victims of domestic violence. People in these circumstances will be able to request that a pseudonym is used in connection with their IHI. This will involve issuing a new IHI number and associating that new IHI with a pseudonym and other demographic details.
Therefore, there is another data register behind the IHI. Where is it held, etc?
And from Health misses key goals
C3 Business Solutions was paid $74,000 to develop an information management strategy for the department.
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