THE Northern Territory Govt has breached the privacy of thousands of public health patients by sending identifiable medical records to a software vendor with offices in Europe, South America and China.
ABC said a preliminary incident report shows the extent of identifiable patient data transferred between NT Health, the Core Clinical Systems Renewal Program (CCSRP) and global software vendor Intersystems between 2018 and 2019.
The records of 50,616 patients were sent from NT Health to the CCSRP.
Then, as part of the arrangement, 3,277 identifiable patient records were transferred from the CCSRP to Intersystems.
In a statement, NT Health said the files have been permanently deleted and internal controls strengthened.
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