13 January 2025
CHF's commitment to improving digital health services, CHF supports and recognises the importance of ensuring that healthcare providers fully engage in digital health and My Health Record. CHF is pleased to provide the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee with feedback and recommendations regarding the Health Legislation Amendment (Modernising My Health Record—Sharing by Default) Bill 2024.
In this submission, CHF will provide reasoning for supporting Sharing by Default Legislation. CHF will then discuss privacy and confidentiality, upload exceptions, and provide recommendations on what CHF identified as potential compliance loopholes.
The consumer views reported in this submission are the fruit of consultation with the Digital Health Consumer Panel, a panel of consumers with a strong interest in Digital Health, meeting six times a year and regularly providing advice to the Australian Digital Health Agency.
