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AU: Fines levied for e-health data breaches

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Dissent

Brett Winterford reports:

The Federal Government will penalise health practitioners to the tune of $66,000 for any personally controlled electronic health record compromised, leaked or “inappropriately accessed” under draft e-health legislation released today.

Health Minister Nicola Roxon said in a statement that she expected the PCEHR system to be “more secure and private” than paper-based records.

The draft legislation [pdf] includes strong penalties of $13,200 per instance of a record being accessed without authorisation or confidential information leaked.

Read more on ITnews.

That would be a tough law if it were ever passed and enacted.

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