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Experts Tackle Health Privacy Futures

Top Health and IT professionals have voiced their concerns over current developments regarding privacy of e-health records.

At a sometimes highly charged meeting hosted by HISA in Sydney on Monday February 17, the HIPS (Health and IT professionals) group identified 4 areas that need urgent attention. These are: i) problems inherent in wide-reaching data access; ii) the need for special provisions for health information; iii) the use of national identifiers, and iv) awareness of IT risk factors.

Recognising that this is a time when privacy concerns are receiving notable political attention, particularly as privacy law reforms are currently being debated during an election year, the HIPS group identified the top 2 priorities for 2007.

For immediate action HIPS plans to work towards ensuring that health data gets recognised as needing 'special provisions'. In addition, determining how the many proposed national identifiers could operate congenially towards improved service provision remains a major challenge  http://www.e-health.qut.edu.au/about/croll.jspe.