Privacy Briefing Workshop 1

A beginner's introduction to key privacy issues in Health - what you should know and how to act

PRESENTERS: Peter Croll and Bill Caelli

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this workshop is to give an overview of the most pertinent issues to consider when addressing Health Privacy with Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This non-technical introduction is geared towards participants from a wide range of backgrounds from both Health and ICT. It will cover the necessary groundwork required for developing a health privacy perspective that is both safe and sustainable with our emerging eHealth environments.

CONTENTS:

1. Introduction to key privacy issues with Health systems:
   a. What makes health different?
   b. Vulnerabilities, threats and countermeasures with advances in ICT
   c. Where does health information go? (Collecting, accessing, processing, transmitting, storing and managing health data)
   d. Navigating the legal and regulatory junglee. Secondary use, fear and trust
2. Managing Health ICT privacy:
   a. Your responsibilities - breaches, notification, risk management, policies, etc.
   b. Choosing the right systems - "look before you leap"
   c. Education, training and staffing
   d. Managing a sustainable vision with Health IT for the future

Privacy Briefing Workshop 2

A practitioner's guide to interpreting and implementing current legislative issues in Health privacy and planning for the future of shared EHRs and Unique identifiers

PRESENTERS: Susan Smith and Bridget Bainbridge

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this workshop is to consider some Health Information Privacy issues at greater depth and provide a spring board for beginning a practical Privacy Management process in your own environment, considering forthcoming developments on the National e-Health horizon.

CONTENTS:

   1. The Healthcare Professional's perspective:

• questions in current Privacy Management
• frequent issues of concern
• underlying ethics and concepts: balance, undesirable consequences and positive goals in privacy for interpretation of local regulation
        o addressing two selected issues

   2. a) Privacy Analysis of Individual Electronic Health Records (IEHR)

• NEHTA Privacy Management Framework - managing privacy in a complex environment
• key privacy issues
• risks/opportunities
• environment/variation in models

   2. b) Planning for E-Health - Applying a Privacy Management Framework

• NEHTA "packages"
• Healthcare Identifiers 

• IEHR