Avant - Mutual Group
1800 128 268
Contact us
Make a medico-legal notification
Login
Avant - Mutual Group
Medical indemnity
Practitioners
Recently fellowed
Early career doctors
Training doctors
Intern / RMO1
Students
Run-off & maternity cover
Get a quote
Personal
Doctors' Health Fund
Finance
Life insurances
Avant Travel Cover
Avant Law
Practice
Practices
Practice insurance
Business insurance
Cyber insurance
Practice finance
PracticeHub
Avant Law
Advice & resources
Medico-Legal Advisory Service
Risk Advisory Services
Avant Learning Centre
Latest news articles
Key support services
Health and Well-being
Starting a private practice
Medical indemnity legal staff
Medical advisers directory
More for members
Advocacy
Avant Law Medical Indemnity
Loyalty Reward Plan
Retirement Reward Plan
Scholarships and grants
About us
Why join
About us
Careers
Sustainability
Publications
Partnerships
Advisory committees
Medical indemnity
Practitioners
Recently fellowed
Early career doctors
Training doctors
Intern / RMO1
Students
Run-off & maternity cover
Get a quote
Personal
Doctors' Health Fund
Finance
Life insurances
Avant Travel Cover
Avant Law
Practice
Practices
Practice insurance
Business insurance
Cyber insurance
Practice finance
PracticeHub
Avant Law
Advice & resources
Medico-Legal Advisory Service
Risk Advisory Services
Avant Learning Centre
Latest news articles
Key support services
Health and Well-being
Starting a private practice
Medical indemnity legal staff
Medical advisers directory
More for members
Advocacy
Avant Law Medical Indemnity
Loyalty Reward Plan
Retirement Reward Plan
Scholarships and grants
About us
Why join
About us
Careers
Sustainability
Publications
Partnerships
Advisory committees
I need help
Contact us
Get medico-legal advice
Self-help resources
My membership
Update my details
Manage my policies
Check my cover
I’d like to join
Get a quick quote
Schedule a call back
Join
Login
Contact us
Make a Medico-legal notification
Avant Learning Centre
Stay informed on the latest medico-legal updates and developments
Avant Learning Centre
Learning Centre home
Browse all
Member content
Search
1 - 10 of 47 results
Refine
Topics
All
Consent
Courts & reports
Digital health
Doctors' health & wellbeing
Managing patient incidents
Medical records
Medicare
Patient care
Patient communication
Practising professionally
Prescribing
Privacy & confidentiality
Workplace & employment
Media
All
Articles
Case studies
Checklists
Claims insights
eLearning courses
Factsheets
Featured collections
Handbooks
Podcasts
Videos
Webinars
Clear
Refine
Case studies
Privacy & confidentiality
Blurred professional boundaries results in doctor email privacy breach
One sentence in one email; that s all it took for a doctor to breach two provisions of the privacy legislation. The doctor was ordered to pay a patient 10 000 in compensation for disclosing the patien...
Avant Member
only
Articles
Privacy & confidentiality
Majority of Avant GPs polled don’t understand My Health Record privacy requirements
The results of our member poll reveal that the majority of GPs polled do not understand the privacy requirements for My Health Record potentially leading to the risk of privacy and security breaches.
Avant Member
only
Factsheets
Medical records
Privacy & confidentiality
Providing medical records to a third party
Requests for medical records may come from the patient themselves from another person or organisation or via a court order such as a subpoena summons or other court notice. We summarise your responsib...
Avant Member
only
Articles
Medical records
Privacy & confidentiality
Doctors can now share patients’ pathology reports on My Health Record
From April 2017 pathology reports can be uploaded to the My Health Record allowing doctors to access pathology results instantaneously and share results with patients.The move follows a successful col...
Avant Member
only
Articles
Privacy & confidentiality
Feuding parents’ rights to access children’s medical records
You have been treating a married couple and their three children for several years when suddenly the marriage becomes acrimonious and the couple file for divorce. Next thing you know the father is dem...
Avant Member
only
Articles
Privacy & confidentiality
How to install practice cameras (while staying on the right side of the law)
In response to an outbreak of crime near your practice you decide to install closed-circuit TV cameras (CCTV) inside and outside the premises to provide added security. As well as installing cameras o...
Avant Member
only
Articles
Courts & reports
Privacy & confidentiality
Mandatory reporting and impairment
In a move that has been generally welcomed by the profession at its August meeting the COAG health council supported a consistent national approach to mandatory reporting provisions. The health minist...
Avant Member
only
Articles
Privacy & confidentiality
New privacy laws coming into force – are you ready?
You are the treating doctor for a female patient and her two children. The patient is separated from her partner and she has taken an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) out against him due to allegation...
Avant Member
only
Factsheets
Privacy & confidentiality
Privacy basics and data breaches
There are privacy obligations for medical practitioners in Australia in relation to patient communication patient records and health information. This is legislated at both a Commonwealth and state le...
Avant Member
only
Articles
Medical records
Privacy & confidentiality
What to do when your prescription pad is stolen
Perhaps the following is as familiar to you as it is for medico legal organisations: I ve just discovered that my car has been broken into and I think my prescription pad has been stolen.
Avant Member
only
Page 1 of 5
1
2
3
4
5
»