The following has been made available.
Revised legislative proposals for Healthcare Identifiers - Submissions
This page contains submissions received from the public consultation on the revised legislative proposals for healthcare identifiers, including the release of an exposure draft of the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010.
The Australian Health Ministers’ Conference agreed to a second round of consultations on the legislative proposals for healthcare identifiers being held so that a broad range of perspectives could contribute to making the legislation robust and effective.
Submissions were invited from interested stakeholders. The public submission process closed on 7 January 2010.
In total, 54 written submissions were received. Submissions are available with the permission of the author.
The submissions are available for download from here.
http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/eHealth-submissions2
The Department must have a time machine – because at the bottom of the page we find:
Page last modified: 08 December, 2008
Reading through it is amazing.
A whole lot of people want better controls and a whole lot of others want to hand the ID out and link to all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons – research, management, clinical registries etc
Non-providers seem to want to be able to use the HI and Doctor are wondering if they need to black them out every time when they send a paper report to an insurer!
The Wisdom of Solomon will be needed and this is before we even get to where homeopaths fit and all the consent issues!
Yet again the Commonwealth Privacy Commissioner has some stern not quite ready remarks!
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre also makes a large number of pretty interesting points as does the Civil Liberties Australia.
I suspect, in sorting this out they are going to get very tangled up!
Some good reading for those interested in the area.
It will be fascinating to see what finally emerges and just how well it will actually work!
David.
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