
Secure Patient Medical Record Destruction
Working in the healthcare care industry means providing essential services for your patients. Critically ill, injured and vulnerable people rely on you to provide them with the care and services they need. Just as it’s important to look after your patients, it’s vital that you handle their personal information appropriately. Without the structured set of guidelines that document destruction policies provide, patients risk having their medical information made public.
As a provider that stores any personal information, you’re legally and morally obligated to handle these medical records in a safe and secure way. Retention of medical records that are no longer required can be costly and take up valuable space – they need to be disposed of regularly and carefully. Multiple occasions in the past have seen thousands of vulnerable patients around Australia have their privacy breached with documents displaying names, addressees, Medicare details and health related information all found in publicly accessible dumpsters or rubbish sites.