Last week we heard all about this issue which was covered superbly in the Saturday Paper a few days ago:Oct 8, 2016Millions of Australians caught in health records breachKaren Middleton The government’s negotiations with doctors over the Medicare rebate is not helped by a breach of privacy on apparently anonymised health data.When she addressed the annual conference of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Perth last week, Health Minister Sussan Ley was already in a hostile environment.Doctors are angry at cost-saving measures that are putting pressure on their fees. They believe the government has broken promises, used them as a collective cash cow and left them to pass on higher costs to their patients.Standing at the podium, Ley surprised the GPs by apologising for something else entirely.Ley revealed that the health department had inadvertently committed a potentially serious breach of the Privacy Act by deliberately publishing supposedly anonymous Medicare and...
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