Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

In this Act, health administration means any of the following:

the creation and maintenance of a record about healthcare or support services provided to a healthcare recipient;

assessing a healthcare recipient’s level of, need for or access to healthcare or support services;

monitoring an individual’s level of, need for or access to healthcare or health programs or support services;

reporting on an individual’s level of, need for or access to healthcare or health programs or support services;

verifying healthcare identifiers and identifying information, including for the purposes of providing healthcare or support services;

the creation and maintenance of a record about any of the following:

a healthcare recipient’s participation in health related programs;

support services that are being, are to be, or have been provided to a healthcare recipient;

the governance and operation of health and health related programs and registries, including oversight, reporting, administration, complaints handling, billing and payment of costs or claims associated with the provision of healthcare and support services;

health surveillance activities including, but not limited to, contact tracing, and monitoring, analysing and disseminating data for the purposes of implementing public health responses;

monitoring or analysis (or both) of individual or system‑wide healthcare or support services needs, demands, performance and outcomes, including, but not limited to the following:

by means of statistical research, data and reporting services;

to inform health workforce planning and management;

for other population health purposes;

to inform reporting on, or responses to, an adverse health event;

linking or connecting data about healthcare recipients and or healthcare providers across different data sets.

For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(i)(iv), an adverse health event is an event, act or omission related to the provision of healthcare to a healthcare recipient that results in, may result in, or could have resulted in, an unintended or harmful effect on the safety, health or welfare of the healthcare recipient.