Public Health Informatics Power Point Presentation 2022

Public Health
Informatics
Name
Institutional Affiliation

Introduction
• Australian eHealth landscape is rapidly developing. Key to
Australian eHealth system is the timely accurate
information availability. Patient health information
availability to correct health provider (HCP) remains
important issue. Poor patient information availability
results in severe medical and medication errors.

How patient data is adequately
protected according to privacy law?
• Australia is regulating data privacy and protection via the blend of state,
territory and federal laws.
• Australian Federal Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) or Privacy Act alongside
Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) is applied to private sector.
• Privacy Act mandates the Privacy Commissioner to perform probe that
include its motion probe for Privacy Act enforcement and further pursue
penalties (civil) for egregious alongside serious violations or for recurrent
APPs violation when the entity fails to implement mechanism for remedy.

How patient data is adequately
protected according to privacy law?
• The patient data is also protected under the My Health
Records Act (2012) (Cth), My Health Records Rules 2016
(Cth) as well as My Health Records Regulation (2012)
(Cth) that establish the legislative framework for the
government’s My Health Records System and the
Healthcare Identities Act 2010 (Cth) that regulates the
utilization and disclosure of the healthcare identifiers.