Presentation given by Larissa Briedis at the 'Sharing Health-y Data Workshop: Challenges and Solutions' event co-hosted by ANDS and HISA. Held on Wednesday 16th March 2016 at the Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia.

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Data and the My
Health Record system
HISA Queensland Health-y Data Workshop
16 March 2016
Larissa Briedis
Manager, Policy and Planning

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What are we talking about?
Healthcare Identifiers Service
My Health Record system
Connecting systems and their users
The digital health environment

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What data?
Healthcare Identifiers Service
My Health Record
Connecting systems
- Individuals
- Healthcare professionals
- Healthcare organisations
- Shared Health Summaries
- Discharge Summaries
- Patient- entered information
- Prescription and dispense information
- Medicare data
- Diagnostic information
- Referrals and letters
- BAU, including anything downloaded from the My Health Record
system

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Governance
Healthcare Identifiers Act
My Health Records Act
- Defines participants
- Authorises access
- Defines misuse
- Provides for penalties
- Existing frameworks
- Defines authorised uses for identifiers in certain situations
- Defines misuse
- Provides for penalties
Connecting systems

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Secondary use
Healthcare Identifiers Act
My Health Records Act
A provider may disclose to another entity for a range of purposes, including the
conduct of research approved by a human research ethics committee.
Not yet!
Existing frameworks
Connecting systems

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Larissa.Briedis@nehta.gov.au
02 8298 3424
NEHTA Help Desk 1300 901 001
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you