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Privacy Principles
Privacy Principles were developed as a "Plain-English" avenue for businesses and consumers to access and understand privacy legislation. The Principles can seem complicated when you first look at them, but when you take the time to read them, sentence by sentence, they provide an excellent and readily understandable guide to what you can, can't and should do with respect to privacy issues.
Health Privacy Principles are part of the Victorian Health Records Act 2001 which came into force 1 July, 2002.
- — Collection View details
- — Use and Disclosure. View details
- — Data Quality. View details
- — Data Security and Data Retention. View details
- — Openness. View details
- — Access and Correction. View details
- — Identifiers. View details
- — Anonymity. View details
- — Transborder Data Flows. View details
- — Transfer or closure of the practice of a health service provider. View details
- — Making information available to another health service provider. View details
How and when personal health information may be collected, purposes of collection, consent.
How and when personal health information may be disclosed, consent.
Completeness and accuracy of personal health information.
How and for how long records must be kept, destruction of records.
Providing advice to consumers of your privacy arrangements and their rights.
How consumers may access information in their health record and responsibilities for incorporating corrections.
Issues about the use of record numbers, Medicare and DVA numbers etc.
Consumers have a right to request anonymous consultation “where it is lawful and practical”.
Regulates transfer of personal health information to locations that may have less privacy protection for consumers than Victoria.
Provisions that ensure practice patients are adequately advised of changes to the situation of the practice where previously available healthcare will no longer be available.
Regulates disclosure of personal health information to another healthcare provider on request of the patient.
National Privacy Principles are part of the Commonwealth Privacy Amendments (Private Sector) Act 2000, which came into force 21 December, 2001