| In 2002, the
Government of New South Wales in Australia introduced health privacy
legislation, which stated that patients would be asked for their consent
before their records were added to a centralised electronic database
called Healthelink. In March, less than two weeks before its rollout,
the State’s Health Minister, John Hatzistergos, exempted Healthelink
from this express-consent rule.
Full story in bjhc&im May 2006 (284 words).
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