Privacy
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Australian healthcare organisations handle health information under the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles. This page describes how Handovex approaches those obligations. It is a high-level overview, not legal advice or a certification claim.
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Health information handling
Handover records contain health information, a category of sensitive information under the Act. Handovex treats every recording, transcript, and structured record as sensitive by default, across capture, processing, and storage.
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Collection and use
Information is collected for a single stated purpose: documenting clinical handover. Records stay within the clinic that created them, and access is constrained by role, department membership, and server-side authorisation checks.
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Access and correction
Clinicians review and correct every draft record before it is signed. Your organisation remains the custodian of its records and controls retention, access requests, and corrections under its own privacy processes.
For the full picture of what we collect and why, read the Handovex Privacy Policy.