Ian Cheong wrote: > At 8:13 am +1030 30/1/07, Oliver Frank wrote: >> Ross Davey wrote: >>> All >>> Can anybody give me a lead on who can speak with some >>> authority/knowledge for me to seek advice regarding patient consent >>> requirements? >>> >>> In particular, I would like to have advice on different models for >>> storing and forwarding patient health information, and which ones >>> that I am puting up that would require specific patient consent and >>> which ones would not because they dont change the current parameters >>> of access to their personal information. >> >> I suggest appropriate consumer groups (not sure who or where ? >> Consumer Health Forum ? others), the RACGP and the Commonwealth >> Privacy Commissioner. You are probably going into new territory, so >> each of these organisations may have to do some thinking about what it >> considers to be reasonable. >> > > I suspect it depends on your circumstances. The AMA privacy kit would > provide general guidance. The Privacy Act is bedrock. Interpretation is > open to humans. Anything beyond what is written is an opinion and for > every legal opinion in an adversarial legal system, there is an equally > opposite legal opinion, which ultimately is resolved by a court if it > gets that far.
In NSW both the public and private sectors (i.e. everyone) are bound by the Health Records Information Privacy Act and the statutory guidelines pursuant to it. There are also handbooks which explain the provisions of the Act and guidelines pretty clearly. Google will find them all. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
