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LAWS6058: Information Rights in Health Care
2027 unit information
This unit explores the legal and ethical frameworks governing patients' rights to information and to privacy in modern Australian and international health care systems. Students will examine consent to treatment, including capacity, practitioners' risk disclosure obligations, refusals of treatment, and emergency care. The unit also considers duties of confidentiality, the ownership of and access to medical records, information rights in medical research, and the implications of digital technology, including artificial intelligence, electronic health records, and social media, for patient privacy and healthcare delivery. Refer to the Sydney Law School timetable - https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable
Unit details and rules
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Sydney Law School
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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LAWS3452 or LAWS5152 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand, summarise, critically evaluate, participate in, challenge and advance the legal and ethical debates concerning confidentiality, information privacy, and consent in health care settings.
- LO2. Understand and critically evaluate legal cases and statutes relevant to the dynamics of information-sharing between health practitioners and patients, and the relationship between patients and government agencies regulating privacy and health information rights.
- LO3. analyse and assess the implications of digital technology on patient privacy and healthcare, including artificial intelligence and big data, and the impact of evolving healthcare delivery models on information flows and breaches.
- LO4. Critically evaluate, participate in, and demonstrate understanding of debates about current laws and proposals for law reform relevant to confidentiality, health information privacy, and consent.
- LO5. Clearly and effectively communicate ideas about confidentiality, health information privacy, and consent in both oral and written form, including by describing the individual learning process through the use of meta-cognitive and self-critical reflections.
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Semester 1b 2027
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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