This popped up last week:OAIC told of 94 My Health Record-related breaches in 2015-16Over the previous financial year, Australia's Information Commissioner found 94 breaches affecting a total of 98 healthcare recipients that held a My Health Record.By Asha McLean | November 10, 2016 -- 04:41 GMT (15:41 AEDT) | During the 2015-16 financial year, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) received 16 mandatory data breach notifications, which recorded 94 separate breaches.According to the Annual report of the Australian Information Commissioner's activities in relation to digital health 2015-16 published on Thursday by Australian Information Commissioner and Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim, the 94 separate breaches affected a total of 103 healthcare recipients, 98 of whom had a My Health Record at the time of breach. In his report [PDF], Pilgrim said the OAIC received three data breach notifications from the system operator, with the first of the...
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from Australian Health Information Technology http://ift.tt/2f2l7k7
- TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
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