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Your health app may soon handle your healthcare identifier. What rules come with that?
The Healthcare Identifiers Amendment Health Technology and Other Matters Regulations 2026 start in stages.
A healthcare identifier is a number that uniquely identifies you.
From 1 February 2027, the Act lets health apps and wearables handle yours, with consent.
These rules add conditions: conformance, validation, and destroying it when consent is withdrawn.
Breach one: a civil penalty of up to 50 penalty units.
Government e-prescription services can also handle identifiers.
The count: two start dates, three conditions, 50 penalty units.
Source: Federal Register of Legislation. Every Australian law, counted daily. cuttheredtape.au.
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F2026L01462 · Source: the instrument on the Federal Register of Legislation
Legislation data: Federal Register of Legislation, Office of Parliamentary Counsel, CC BY 4.0.
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