20 - Anna Johnston, Sallinger Privacy

Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 8:43 p.m.

If you work in the healthcare industry you have a huge responsibility when it comes to managing sensitive patient information, whether you\u2019re a big software vendor or a single physiotherapist, everyone needs to follow the same rules, and there are some pretty serious consequences for not doing it properly.\xa0 Do you know what your obligations are and if you\u2019re doing a good job? Check this episode out to find out!\n\xa0\nWho is Anna Johnston\nAnna Johnston is one of Australia\u2019s most respected experts in privacy law and practice.\nShe has qualifications in law, public policy and management, and 26 years\u2019 experience in legal, policy and research roles.\xa0 Anna has a breadth of perspectives and a wealth of experience to dealing with privacy and data governance issues.\nShe is the former Deputy Privacy Commissioner for NSW, so she knows the regulator\u2019s perspective and since 2004 is the Director for consulting firm \u201cSalinger Privacy\u201d.\nAnna has been called upon to provide expert testimony before various Parliamentary inquiries and the Productivity Commission, spoken at numerous conferences, and is regularly asked to comment on privacy issues in the media.\xa0\xa0\nAnna holds a first class honours degree in Law, a Masters of Public Policy with honours, a Graduate Certificate in Management, a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, and a Bachelor of Arts, plus a number of other relevant and well regarded certificates and industry associations.\xa0\nIn this Episode you\u2019ll learn\n2:08 - About Salinger Privacy\n4:55 - Privacy Concerns in Data (with a focus on health tech)\n8:15 - All about, privacy reviews, data flows, data governance, and privacy design\n14:28 -AI - How does it fit ethically, legally and is policy keeping up with innovation\xa0\n16:40 - AI - GDPR, challenges for AI with diagnostic decisions\xa0\xa0\n20:10 - AI - Transparency, Accountability and Consent\n26:00 - Legal Obligations with Data Privacy\nKey TakeAways\n When it comes to privacy law in Australia, the same laws and consequences apply to everyone dealing with healthcare information - whether they are a big institution of a single doctor.\n While Data Privacy breaches do happen they are often the result of lack of education and or the best intentions in mind, not so much because of malicious intent\n Often AI is trained on data that was collected not for the intention of training the machine, so the concept of informed consent is a tricky one\xa0\n The simple \u201ctick this box to agree\u201d actually isn\u2019t enough and more emphasis needs to be put on clearly communicating clearly with the person who\u2019s data is being collected\n The expectations of patients data privacy holds the health and medical industries to the highest levels of scrutiny meaning that breaches are to be reported to the Price\xa0 Commissioners office and the patients whose privacy has been breached \n\xa0\nLinks\nAnna Johnston Twitter - @SalingerPrivacy\xa0\nAnna Johnston LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-johnston-ba188410a/\nNotifiable Data Breaches Scheme - https://www.oaic.gov.au/ndb\xa0\nGDPR - https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/guidance-and-advice/australian-entities-and-the-eu-general-data-protection-regulation/\xa0\nMSIA - https://msia.com.au/\xa0\nSalinger Privacy - https://www.salingerprivacy.com.au/\xa0\nMy Health Record (Formerly PCEHR) - https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/\xa0\nNDIS - https://www.ndis.gov.au/\xa0\nNational Health and Medical Research Council - https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/\xa0\n\xa0\nTranscript\n[00:00:00] Pete: With me today is Anna Johnson. Anna is one of Australia's most respected experts in Privacy Law and practice.\nShe has qualifications in law, public policy and management and 26 years experience in legal policy and research roles. Anna has a breadth of perspectives and a wealth of experience in dealing with privacy and data governance issues. She's the former deputy privacy commissioner for New South Wales.So she really knows regulatory perspective well, and since 2004 is the director for consulting firm Salinger Privacy Anna holds a first-class honours