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The Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 aims to provide a way to ensure that an entity providing or receiving healthcare is correctly matched to health information. This Act assigns unique identifying numbers to each healthcare provider and recipient, with strict rules on verification of identity, purposes for collecting, using, and disclosing healthcare identifiers, and identification information.
The Act facilitates the use of healthcare identifiers for communicating and managing health information about a healthcare recipient through the My Health Record system. It also enables the creation of a Healthcare Provider Directory to allow healthcare providers to check professional and business details of other providers.
Key definitions include:
- Aged care: providing care to people who are elderly or have disabilities
- Australian law: laws enacted by the federal government, including the Privacy Act 1988
- Chief Executive Medicare: the head of the department responsible for administering Medicare benefits
The service operator is assigned healthcare identifiers to healthcare recipients. A national registration authority assigns a healthcare identifier to an individual healthcare provider in most cases.
This compilation includes amendments made up to 13 July 2024 and shows the text of the law as amended and in force on that date.
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