This appeared a little while ago:Linkable de-identified 10% sample of Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) This data is a collection of the current and historical use of Medicare and PBS services. This data release contains approximately 1 billion lines of data relating to approximately 3 million Australians. The data sets have been designed to enable other datasets to be linked in the future, for example hospital data, immunisation data. The addition of these data sets will greatly increase the amount of data and open new areas of analysis. A suite of confidentiality measures including encryption, perturbation and exclusion of rare events has been applied to safeguard personal health information and ensure that patients and providers cannot be re-identified. Confidentialisation MethodologyAll Medicare and PBS claims for a random 10% sample of patients are included in the release. To be clear, it is a 10% sample of patients, not a 10% sample of...
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from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2bd1nrK
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