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Why the secrecy about data, when it could help everything from influenza to child protection

The Department of Health and Ageing has called for submissions on proposals for developing healthcare identifiers and related privacy legislation. A Croakey reader, Dr Trevor Kerr is worried that the submissions are not going to be made publicly available.
Below he gives two pertinent case studies of the potential benefits that could flow from healthcare identifiers [...]