On The Face Of It This Report Is Pretty Troubling From All Sorts Of Angles.
This appeared last week.21 April 2020How these agencies are breaching patient privacyAHPRA Patients Policy Posted by Felicity Nelson Privacy experts have criticised Services Australia and AHPRA for sharing thousands of private health records every year without informing patients, a practice that appears to contradict the government ’s own guidelines.Large volumes of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) data are routinely shared between the two agencies to aid AHPRA’s investigations into alleged doctor misconduct.While doctors are informed when their own private health data, or their pra ctice data, is transferred to AHPRA during an investigation, patients are not routinely alerted by either agency that their privacy has been breached.In 2019, Services Australia released 2,625 private health records to AHPRA, which represented an increase in disclosures since 2017.
Access to MBS a nd PBS data can help AHPRA determine whether a complaint about a...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs