Health fund leaking patient medical files
‘The intimate medical history of hundreds of people has been provided by one of the country’s largest private health funds to a company that uses it to sell its services to vulnerable patients.
HCF has handed over to McKesson Asia Pacific the contact details, gender, age, the broad type of mental illness, and the recent number of hospital admissions for 370 people without their consent. [..]
HCF also rejected the claim that it was in breach of privacy laws, although it admitted that it was providing McKesson Asia Pacific with patients’ contact details, sex, age, a broad mental health category, and the number of recent admissions.’
