Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012

Citation

Government of Australia, Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records Act 2012 (Mar. 12, 2014) (full-text).

Overview

The object of this Act is to enable the establishment and operation of a voluntary national system for the provision of access to health information relating to consumers of healthcare, to:

(a) help overcome the fragmentation of health information; and

(b) improve the availability and quality of health information; and

(c) reduce the occurrence of adverse medical events and the duplication of treatment; and

(d) improve the coordination and quality of healthcare provided to consumers by different healthcare providers.