Notice of health information required to be given to the Secretary
134ZH Notice of health information required to be given to the Secretary
S. 134ZH inserted by No. 4/2023 s. 4.
The Secretary, by notice published in the Government Gazette, may specify health information to be given to the Secretary by a participating health service for the purposes of the Electronic Patient Health Information Sharing System.
The Secretary may also specify in the notice published under subsection (1) a relevant date in relation to health information specified in the notice, being not earlier than 3 years before the commencement of this Part.
A participating health service must give to the Secretary—
the health information specified in a notice published under subsection (1) that it holds about a person who is or has been a patient in, or has received health services from, the participating health service, if it was collected by the participating health service on or after the relevant date specified for that information; and
the unique identification number assigned by the participating health service to a person referred to in paragraph (a).
The participating health service must give the health information and unique identification numbers referred to in subsection (3) to the Secretary—
within 5 days after the publication of the notice; or
by any later date specified in the notice.
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