Guides, research and practical thinking from the team building governance infrastructure for Australian healthcare.
Featured
Most healthcare data security material is written for a US audience and quietly assumes US instruments. The Australian Privacy Act, the My Health Records Act and OAIC guidance impose different obligations on anyone handling health information here - and the difference matters most at exactly the point AI is introduced.
Insight
Healthcare organisations are connecting sensitive data to a growing number of AI systems. The harder question is not how to make those connections, but who retains authority over them - what is permitted, where the boundary sits, and what evidence remains when the data moves.
Guide
Identifying information in an imaging study is not confined to the obvious fields, and pixel-level processing alone does not resolve it. An examination of why imaging de-identification is routinely under-scoped, and what that means for any AI relationship that touches a study.
Research
Digital pathology carries identifying information in places that general-purpose de-identification tooling was never designed to look. On why coverage - not technique - is the failure mode in slide imaging, and how that gap is usually discovered.
Research
A genome cannot be anonymised. It can only be governed. What that distinction means for research collaboration, secondary use and any arrangement that sends genomic data to an external service.
Guide
Clinical notes hold the richest identifying surface in a health record and the least structured one. Why free text resists the controls that work elsewhere, and what governing it actually requires once AI is reading it.
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