Copy of the PCEHR Privacy Impact Assessment

Highlights

2.2 Key design features of the PCEHR System

The PCEHR System … is opt in – if a consumer or healthcare provider wants to participate, they need to register with the system, and not compulsory – both consumers and healthcare providers choose whether or not to participate.

9.1.6 Proposed solutions – legislation

(a) We have made a number of recommendations aimed at influencing the drafting of the PCEHR Bill. Critical legislative recommendations include:

(i) a number of measures to confirm and support the ‘opt in’ nature of the PCEHR for consumers (Recommendations 4.1 to 4.3);

(ii) preventing any extension of the scope of the system, or any change to the ‘opt in’ nature of the PCEHR, by way of regulation or other subordinate legislation (Recommendation 4.2)