Melbourne, Australia
Independent · Not a clinic
An independent Australian journal of digital health
Digital DoctorExplainers on telehealth, records, medicines and the systems between Australian patients and their clinicians.
Consent, security, literacy
Practice cybersecurity, AI scribes, children's records, older Australians and the privacy of health apps.
A child's My Health Record sits in an awkward space between parental responsibility and a teenager's right to confidentiality. This article covers age of access, separated families, school apps, and when a young person should take control of their own record.
Ambient AI scribes are arriving in Australian consulting rooms faster than the consent scripts. This article covers AHPRA and privacy issues, who authors the note, hallucination risk, and a practical way to ask patients before the microphone starts listening.
A five-GP clinic does not need a security operations centre. It does need a floor — multi-factor authentication, no shared logins, tested backups, a breach plan and vendor contracts that mention privacy. A practical checklist for practices that still share a password on a sticky note.
Older Australians are not a single skill level. Lockouts, shared phones and Medicare-looking scam texts do more damage than a missing app. Here is how practices can help without taking the keyboard.
Symptom trackers and wellness apps sit in a grey zone of Australian privacy law. Here is what the APPs actually require, where overseas servers change the risk, and a checklist before you log a headache.