Australian and New Zealand journal of public health
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Aust N Z J Public Health · Jun 2008
ReviewA review of Australian health privacy regulation regarding the use and disclosure of identified data to conduct data linkage.
To review Australian legislation about privacy, focusing on provisions within the regulations to conduct health research using identified data and lobby for regulatory change in the ACT. ⋯ The information from the review was used to inform the ACT Government that the health privacy regulations in place were inconsistent with the rest of Australia and resulted in regulatory change in the ACT. ACT legislation was amended to include provisions for the disclosure of identified health information for health research under controlled circumstances. The amendments were passed in December 2005, facilitating future health research involving data linkage in the ACT.