And You Think Your Private Health Information Is Well Looked After? Think Again!

This appeared last week:Healthcare suffers almost a quarter of data breaches, as reports skyrocket under mandatory notification schemeLynne Minion | 11 Apr 2018 Data breaches have affected 63 Australian organisations since 22 February, with 24 per cent of them in healthcare, according to the Office of the Information Commissioner ’s first report since the mandatory data breach reporting legislation came into effect.Of the total breaches, health information was involved in 33 per cent of cases, the report released today said.The Notifiable Data Breaches scheme, which came into force on 22 February, requires entities with ob ligations to secure personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 to notify individuals when their personal information is involved in a data breach that is likely to result in serious harm and notify the OAIC.In the six week since its introduction, the scheme has unearthed breaches that may otherwise have remained secreted away within organisations, with...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs