Ambulance Tasmania data breach referred to police
The breach of Ambulance Tasmania's paging system in which private details of ambulance call-outs were posted online by a third party has been referred to Tasmania Police.
The ABC revealed the breach on January 8, reporting that pager messages containing patients' personal details, condition and addresses were being listed each time paramedics were dispatched.
News brief
Filed under Australian eHealth on 18 January 2021. Pulse+IT news briefs cover a single development in Australasian digital health; the weekly editorial column puts the week’s stories in context.
