Australian health practitioner Ahpra notified the Office of the National Health Practitioner Ombudsman and Privacy Commissioner after an employee used company databases to find the home address of a nurse whom the culprit then allegedly assaulted, the Guardian reports. The privacy commissioner was “engaged in ongoing dialogue with Ahpra,” regarding the incident, a spokesman said. Ahpra, no stranger to breaches of this kind, refrained from making its own comments “for privacy reasons,” its statement read. The incident is just a symptom of over-reaching health care privacy issues, advocates maintain. “The bottom line here is the data must be kept confidential,” said the Australian Medical Association’s Dr. Stephen Parnis. “We would expect that all the processes of the law are put in place when that confidentiality is breached.”
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