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Digital health is an integral part of any general practice and is increasingly prevalent in enabling secure communication between health care providers and health care organisations. A mature digital health environment within the practice provides the foundation for safe, seamless and secure access and sharing of health information across multiple disciplines at the point of care.
Your practice has an obligation to protect the security and privacy of health information by:
- Ensuring operating systems and applications are maintained in accordance with advice from the software vendor(s) including applying updates in a timely manner.
- Protecting your practice network from cyber-attack by implementing and maintaining comprehensive anti-virus and malware protection.
- Ensuring suitable IT services are available to support the practice.
- A commitment to ongoing staff training and development.
- Ensuring user access accounts and passphrase security measures are standard operating practice.