An important overview of the pros, cons and questions about My Health Record

7 June 2018 - After years of uncertainty about the future of a nationally effective eHealth system, Australia is now ...

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Clinical trial participants’ views of the risks and benefits of data sharing

7 June 2018 - Sharing of participant-level clinical trial data has potential benefits, but concerns about potential harms to research participants ...

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Health report confirms: consumers want control of their own health data

23 May 2018 - Australians want ownership and control of their own health data and want to be asked for ...

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Understanding statistical principles in linear and logistic regression

7 May 2018 - A previous article in this series assessed the association between two variables. Here, we introduce the concept ...

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Health data governance enforceable undertaking for re-identification of MBS/PBS data

3 May 2018 - The Australian Information Commissioner has concluded an investigation into the re-identification of Medicare service provider data ...

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CMS Administrator Verma unveils new strategy to fuel data-driven patient care, transparency

26 April 2018 - New Medicare Advantage data resource released. ...

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Post-marketing modifications of drug labels for cancer drugs approved by the US FDA between 2006 and 2016 with and without supporting randomized controlled trials

11 April 2018 - Modifications in cancer drug indications, dosing, and related toxicities after FDA approval are common. It is unclear ...

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Guilty: Health Department breached privacy laws publishing data of 2.5 million people

29 March 2018 - The federal Department of Health "unintentionally" breached privacy laws when it published de-identified health records of ...

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A revolution in health care is coming

 1 February 2018 - Welcome to Doctor you. ...

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ICER’s guideline on the acceptance and use of “in-confidence” data from manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, devices, and other health care interventions

22 December 2017 - ICER takes its obligations to transparency and fairness seriously.  ...

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Not so anonymous: Medicare data can be used to identify individual patients, researchers say

18 December 2017 - Researchers say they can identify individuals in government healthcare data that was supposed to be anonymous, ...

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Report on the collection of under co-payment data 2016-17

14 December 2017 - From 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017, approximately 85 million under co-payment prescriptions were supplied ...

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Canada's regulator of patented drug prices is rigging data, and risking our health

5 December 2017 - The patent medicine pricing board is making a blatant attempt to bias the data. ...

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Is the FDA withholding data about a controversial drug to protect its manufacturer?

29 November 2017 - In the case of Sarepta, it sure looks that way. ...

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Chemotherapy compounder ID mandatory within PBS claims from 1 December 2017

22 November 2017 - From 1 December 2017, approved suppliers (approved pharmacists, approved medical practitioners and approved public and private ...

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