Healthcare Identifiers Regulations 2020
9AAuthorisation of collection, use and disclosure—facilitating healthcare recipient to self‑register for an active script list
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9A Authorisation of collection, use and disclosure—facilitating healthcare recipient to self‑register for an active script list
(1) This section is made for the purposes of subsection 20(1) of the Act. Authorisation of service operator (2) For the purposes of facilitating the provision of adequate and appropriate healthcare to a healthcare recipient, the service operator is authorised to do the following: (a) collect, from an active script list registry operator, the identifying information or healthcare identifier of the healthcare recipient; (b) use the identifying information or healthcare identifier to verify whether the healthcare recipient has a healthcare identifier; (c) disclose the healthcare recipient’s healthcare identifier to the active script list registry operator. Authorisation of active script list registry operators (3) For the purposes of facilitating the provision of adequate and appropriate healthcare to a healthcare recipient, an active script list registry operator is authorised to: (a) collect the healthcare recipient’s healthcare identifier from the service operator; and (b) use the healthcare recipient’s healthcare identifier to register the healthcare recipient for an active script list. (4) For the purposes of facilitating the provision of adequate and appropriate healthcare to a healthcare recipient, an active script list registry operator is authorised to: (a) collect, from the healthcare recipient, the healthcare recipient’s identifying information or healthcare identifier using a mobile prescription application via a mobile intermediary service or a web application; and (b) disclose the identifying information or healthcare identifier to the service operator to verify the healthcare recipient’s healthcare identifier. Authorisation of mobile prescription application service providers (5) For the purposes of facilitating the provision of adequate and appropriate healthcare to a healthcare recipient, a mobile prescription application service provider is authorised to do the following: (a) collect, from the healthcare recipient, the identifying information or healthcare identifier of the healthcare recipient; (b) use the identifying information or healthcare identifier of the healthcare recipient to facilitate the registration of the healthcare recipient for an active script list; (c) disclose the identifying information or healthcare identifier of the healthcare recipient to a mobile intermediary service operator to facilitate the registration of the healthcare recipient for an active script list. Authorisation of mobile intermediary service operators (6) For the purposes of facilitating the provision of adequate and appropriate healthcare to a healthcare recipient, a mobile intermediary service operator is authorised to do the following: (a) collect, from a mobile prescription application, the identifying information or healthcare identifier of the healthcare recipient; (b) use the identifying information or healthcare identifier of the healthcare recipient to facilitate the registration of the healthcare recipient for an active script list; (c) disclose the identifying information or healthcare identifier of the healthcare recipient to an active script list registry operator to facilitate the registration of the healthcare recipient for an active script list.