{"id":90177,"date":"2021-03-23T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/?p=16721"},"modified":"2021-03-23T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:54:31","slug":"ama-raises-alarm-over-data-sharing-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/03\/23\/ama-raises-alarm-over-data-sharing-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"AMA raises alarm over data sharing plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Australian Medical Association <\/strong>has sounded the alarm over the federal government\u2019s flagship new data-sharing scheme, warning there are no minimum privacy protections and that private health information could be shared with insurance firms.<\/p>\n The government introduced the Data Availability and Transparency Act to Parliament in December last year, after nearly three years of development and consultation. The legislation facilitates a significant expansion of the sharing of public sector data between agencies and private organisations, sometimes without consent.<\/p>\n It will provide a \u201cnew path\u201d for the sharing of this data that is currently blocked by secrecy provisions or other laws and will see far more identified data be shared among agencies and departments, and for de-identified data be shared with universities and think tanks, among other organisations.<\/p>\n