ACCC has released a report detailing that online scams cost Australians half a billion dollars in 2018. “Total combined losses reported to Scamwatch and other government agencies exceeded $489 million – $149 million more than 2017,” ACCC Deputy Chair Delia […]
This is a group of links to free education aimed at GP Practice Staff. Check with each individual website for terms and conditions of use. Medicare – Education services for health professionals Medicare – Education guide – billing skin lesion […]
Individual Healthcare Identifiers – IHI In Practices we should only perform IHI lookups for patients as part of providing healthcare to them. Above all, this means that we should not do a bulk look up for all patients in our […]
Email Security There are some basic steps to securing personal information when it comes to email. These include Message encryption email transmission encryption email digital signatures Password protected attachments Normal NON-encrypted email Let’s say I go to Paris for a […]
GDPR – the new ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ from the EU. The EU has new legislation that comes into effect on May 25 (yes few days time) that is targeting the international social media companies, but is impacting on all […]
Medicare Card Lookup Medicare lookup and verification via HPOS is usually available to ALL staff using site PKI certificate in a web browser. This is a common scenario. Medicare have stated that they will no longer be providing Medicare Card […]
Let me start by asking ‘why good computer security is important to clinics?’ We all know that the security of patient health records is very important under the Federal Privacy Act. We get this drummed home at every conference and […]
Copy of feedback sent to DSSfeedback@dss.gov.au This is another really terrible referral process >> https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/referral Already having Blue Care reject paper referrals, and will only accept this Jurassic electronic submission where all details of client and health professional need […]
