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Planned database of Victorians’ health information ‘trashes privacy’

Posted on December 6, 2020 by pogowasright.org

Henrietta Cook reports:

The private medical information of every Victorian who has used public hospitals and health services will be collected by the Health Department, stored on a database and accessed by clinicians under a controversial state government plan.

The proposal, which was quietly unveiled in September, has attracted criticism from legal, consumer and public health groups because patients can’t opt out.

Read more on The Age.

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