No complaints were made to the independent overseer about the PCEHR system or the Healthcare Identifiers (HI) Service in the 2014-15 financial year, although it did receive seven mandatory data breach notifications, mostly concerned with “intertwined” Medicare records, during the period.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released its annual report into its activities in relation to eHealth for the 2014-15 year in its role as the independent regulator of the privacy aspects of the PCEHR system and HI Service, which it collectively calls the eHealth system.
