Privacy Commissioner - Te Mana Matapono Matatapu

Comparison Paper on Health Privacy Laws

"Overseas Privacy Regimes : Internal research paper comparing New Zealand's Health Information Privacy Code 1994 with the health privacy laws of Victoria, Ontario and the United States".

This is an internal research paper prepared to assist in the 2007 amendment of the Health Information Privacy Code 1994.  It considers the health privacy laws of three foreign national (US) and regional (Ontario, Victoria) jurisdictions and compares them to the New Zealand regime. 

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