[LINK] Can Australian electronic healthcare records be used for research?

[Vanessa Tuckfield]

Not quite answering your individual question
But more to can healthcare records be used for research have a look at
https://datacommissioner.gov.au/ and they produced a video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN8NI-jlmxc&t=12s
Vanessa
Vanessa Tuckfield
vanessa.tuckfield at gmail.com



On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 10:20, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au>
wrote:

> On 21/6/22 23:01, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> > Each SARS-CoV-2 reinfection causes more severe disease
> > By Neha MathurJun 20 2022  Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.
> >
> https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220620/Each-SARS-CoV-2-reinfection-causes-more-severe-disease.aspx
> >
> > ... researchers accessed the United States Department of Veterans
> Affairs electronic healthcare records (EHRs) to investigate how SARS-CoV-2
> reinfection adds to the risk acquired after the first infection. ...
>
> This is an example of electronic healthcare records being used for a
> public benefit. Can Australia's records be used in this way? Have they
> been set up to enable this, and is the system working at all?
>
> I gave approval to have a national health care record, but have so far
> seen no benefit from it. When I caught COVID-19, the hospital treating
> me didn't have any of my medical records, not even what I had typed into
> their state system's COVID-19 website the day before. After I recovered,
> the federal government sent me a letter saying I was now eligible for
> another booster, even though the hospital said I should not for a few
> weeks.
>
>
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> Tom Worthington, http://www.tomw.net.au
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