Does the Health Records Act apply to scanned records?
The Health Records Act applies to health information held by an organisation in a document in possession or under the control of an organisation. A document is defined in the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 (Vic) as: “document” includes, in addition to a document in writing— (a) any book, map, plan, graph or drawing; (b) any photograph; (c) any label, marking or other writing which identifies or describes anything of which it forms part, or to which it is attached by any means whatsoever; (d) any disc, tape, sound track or other device in which sounds or other data (not being visual images) are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced there from; (e) any film (including microfilm), negative, tape or other device in which one or more visual images are embodied so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced there from; and (f) anything whatsoever on which is marked any words, figur
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- The Commonwealth Privacy Act differs to the Health Records Act concerning some issues that are specifically addressed by the Health Records Act, which Act will apply?
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