8Identifying information

8 Identifying information

Identifying information—individual healthcare provider (1) For the purposes of paragraph 7(1)(g) of the Act, the following information is identifying information of an individual healthcare provider: (a) whether the healthcare provider is registered with a registration authority and the status of that registration (such as conditional, suspended, cancelled or lapsed); (b) whether the healthcare provider is represented by a professional body of a kind described in paragraph 9A(1)(b) of the Act and the status (such as conditional, suspended, cancelled or lapsed) of the credentials that are: (i) provided through the professional body to the healthcare provider; and (ii) required to practice the healthcare provider’s healthcare profession; (c) whether the healthcare provider is, or is likely to be, deceased; (d) whether the death of the healthcare provider has been verified; (e) whether the healthcare provider is linked to a healthcare provider organisation and, if so, the name of the organisation and the ABN or ACN of the organisation (whichever is applicable). Identifying information—healthcare provider organisation (2) For the purposes of paragraph 7(2)(e) of the Act, the following information is identifying information of a healthcare provider organisation: (a) whether the organisation is registered under Division 2 of Part 3 of the My Health Records Act; (b) whether the organisation has notified the service operator that the organisation does not wish to use a healthcare identifier, either temporarily or permanently; (c) if applicable, the organisation’s business name on the register established under section 22 of the Business Names Registration Act 2011;

Note: Also see paragraph 7(2)(a) of the Act which states that the name of the healthcare provider is also identifying information.

(d) the type of healthcare service the organisation provides to another healthcare provider or a healthcare recipient;

Note: Examples of the type of healthcare service an organisation provides include general practice services, public hospital services or diagnostic imaging services.

(e) the name, date of birth and date of death (if applicable) of the organisation’s responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer;
(f) the work address, email address, telephone number and fax number of the organisation’s responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer;
(g) the identifying number assigned to the organisation’s responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer by the service operator;
(h) whether an evidence of identity process has been undertaken for the organisation’s responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer;
(i) if an evidence of identity process is being undertaken for the organisation’s responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer—the name of the agency or service operator undertaking the process;
(j) if an evidence of identity process has been undertaken for the organisation’s responsible officer and organisation maintenance officer—the name of the agency or service operator that undertook the process, the outcome of the process and when the process was undertaken;
(k) the record that specifies the network address and technical requirements permitting electronic messages to be sent to the organisation;
(l) any other network organisation or seed organisation (within the meaning of section 9A of the Act) that the healthcare provider organisation is linked to in a network;
(m) whether any individual healthcare providers are linked to the organisation and, if so, the names and other identifying information of those individual healthcare providers.