Object of Act

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The object of this Act is to enable the establishment and operation of a national public system for the provision of access to health information relating to recipients of healthcare that is voluntary for those recipients, to:

(a)

help overcome the fragmentation of health information; and

(b)

improve the availability and quality of health information; and

(c)

reduce the occurrence of adverse medical events and the duplication of treatment; and

(d)

improve the coordination and quality of healthcare provided to healthcare recipients by different healthcare providers.

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