Regulatory Reform Omnibus Act 2025 (73 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Amendments to support a 'tell us once' approach to government service delivery

Part 2   Enhancing use and adoption of healthcare identifiers

Division 9   Purpose of the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

61   Section 3

Repeal the section, substitute:

8HI3 Purpose of this Act

The purpose of this Act is to enable the safe and accurate exchange of information about healthcare and support services by:

(a) assigning unique identifiers to healthcare providers and recipients; and

(b) authorising the collection, use and disclosure of healthcare identifiers and identifying information by trusted entities for health, health-related and health administration purposes; and

(c) providing for a comprehensive Healthcare Provider Directory to facilitate communication between healthcare providers and manage information about healthcare and support services; and

(d) providing for the making of data standards about health information and other clinical data.