THE Health Dept has confirmed the withdrawal of some deidentified PBS and MBS datasets from the data.gov.au website after an alert from a researcher who said it was possible to decrypt some service provider ID numbers.
The department said no patient information had been compromised with a full audit of the process of compiling and publishing the data currently under way.
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