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• Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW) - NoneAn Act to make provision for the protection of health records and information; and for other purposes.
• Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 (C'th) - NoneUnder this Act, healthcare identifiers are assigned to healthcare recipients, individual healthcare providers and healthcare provider organisations.
  
  There are strict rules on:
  
  (a) the verification of a person’s identity before a healthcare identifier is assigned; and
  
  (b) the purposes for which a healthcare identifier can be collected, used and disclosed; and
  
  (c) the purposes for which the identifying information of a healthcare recipient, a healthcare provider or a healthcare provider organisation can be collected, used and disclosed.
  
  This Act facilitates the use of the healthcare identifier for the purposes of communicating and managing health information about a healthcare recipient (including through the My Health Record system).
  
  This Act also facilitates:
  
  (a) the creation of a Healthcare Provider Directory, to allow healthcare providers to check the professional and business details of healthcare providers; and
  
  (b) the use of authenticated electronic communications by healthcare providers.