The Privacy Foundation Comments On The Health Department ’s Incompetence In Handing Open Data Releases.

This appeared last weekend:January 7, 2018 by Bernard Robertson-DunnMEDIA RELEASE: ‘Open Data’: Too much sharing, too little care? Who’s reading your health information now?There can be benefits from the ‘sharing’ (distribution) of health and other personal information  among health care professionals and researchers. Any such ‘sharing’ must, however, be based on an understanding of potential risks. It must only occur within an effective legal framework, and controls appropriate for those risks. A ‘Trust me, I’m from the government!’ approach is a recipe for pain. So is sharing such sensitive data with governmen t without full openness, transparency and a legal framework that prevents them from misusing it out of the public eye.The inadequacy of Australia’s current health data privacy framework – inadequate risk assessment, inadequate law, inadequate enforcement – was demonstrated recently by a major independent study from Chris Culnane, Benjamin Rubinstein and Vanessa Teague at...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 17, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs