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Privacy and managing health information in general practice
Last revised: 12 Jul 2024
Effective information security practices and policies are essential to ensure the privacy of health and business information. Additionally, the use of healthcare identifiers instead of names is useful to protect privacy along with establishing clear policies for the use of information in health research.
Your practice must protect personal information it holds from:
Cross-border disclosures (for example, disclosing information to an overseas recipient or using cloud computing companies) must first undergo a thorough risk assessment to ensure no privacy breaches will occur. As previously discussed, it is essential for your practice to:
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