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Health Data Governance (LAWS90152)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
May
Lecturer/s
Associate Professor Mark Taylor, Coordinator
Email: law-masters@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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Data relating to an individual’s physical and mental health and condition can reveal extremely sensitive information. Valuable health data also underpins improvements in health care and can be useful for other government and commercial purposes. How can the law protect the principle of medical confidentiality and enable the data flows necessary for a modern learning healthcare system, public health, and other public interest purposes?
Health privacy and data protection expert Mark Taylor considers the relevant law and governance in Australia and comparable jurisdictions. This subject will provide students with an advanced and specialised knowledge of health data governance, including relevant privacy and data protection law. It will invite critical consideration of relevant law benchmarked against the Recommendation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Council on Health Data Governance and other international standards.
Principal topics include:
- Legal concepts of ‘personal health data’, ‘identifiability’, ‘reasonable expectation’ and ‘public interest’
- Transparency, informed consent, and respect for individual objection
- Confidentiality and third-party access, including family members, researcher, public health and government
- Feedback of incidental findings and the ‘right not to know’
- Oversight and approval mechanisms, with consideration of issues raised by increasing use of new techniques of machine learning and analysis of big data (including algorithmic accountability in health care context)
- International transfer and cross-border cooperation.
Intended learning outcomes
A student who has successfully completed this subject will:
- Have an advanced and integrated understanding of legal rules, concepts and principles relevant to health data governance in the context of privacy and data protection law in Australia and comparable jurisdictions
- Be able to critically examine, analyse, interpret and assess the effectiveness of the legal rules, principles and concepts
- Be an engaged participant in debate regarding emerging and contemporary issues in the field, such as appropriate third party (including family member) access to health data, changing boundaries regarding individual care and indirect care (eg. research) uses, feedback of incidental findings, and algorithmic accountability in the health care context
- Have the cognitive and technical skills to independently examine, research and analyse existing and emerging legal issues relating to health data governance in Australia and other comparable jurisdictions
- Have the cognitive and technical skills to generate critical and creative ideas relating to health data governance and to critically evaluate existing governance frameworks
- Have the communication skills to clearly articulate and convey complex information regarding health data governance to relevant specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Applicants without legal qualifications should note that subjects are offered in the discipline of law at an advanced graduate level. While every effort will be made to meet the needs of students trained in other fields, concessions will not be made in the general level of instruction or assessment. Most subjects assume the knowledge usually acquired in a degree in law (LLB, JD or equivalent). Applicants should note that admission to some subjects in the Melbourne Law Masters will be dependent upon the individual applicant’s educational background and professional experience.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The Melbourne Law Masters welcomes applications from students with disabilities. The inherent academic requirements for study in the Melbourne Law Masters are:
- The ability to attend a minimum of 75% of classes and actively engage in the analysis and critique of complex materials and debate;
- The ability to read, analyse and comprehend complex written legal materials and complex interdisciplinary materials;
- The ability to clearly and independently communicate in writing a knowledge and application of legal principles and interdisciplinary materials and to critically evaluate these;
- The ability to clearly and independently communicate orally a knowledge and application of legal principles and interdisciplinary materials and critically evaluate these;
- The ability to work independently and as a part of a group;
- The ability to present orally and in writing legal analysis to a professional standard.
Students who feel their disability will inhibit them from meeting these inherent academic requirements are encouraged to contact Student Equity and Disability Support.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Class participation (10%)
- Research paper (7,500 - 9,000 words) (90%) (21 August) on topic approved by the subject coordinator
A minimum of 75% attendance is a hurdle requirement.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- May
Principal coordinator Mark Taylor Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 24-34 hours Total time commitment 150 hours Pre teaching start date 1 May 2019 Pre teaching requirements The pre-teaching period commences four weeks before the subject commencement date. From this time, students are expected to access and review the Reading Guide that will be available from the LMS subject page and the subject materials provided by the subject coordinator, which will be available from Melbourne Law School. Refer to the Reading Guide for confirmation of which resources need to be read and what other preparation is required before the teaching period commences. Teaching period 29 May 2019 to 4 June 2019 Last self-enrol date 6 May 2019 Census date 29 May 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 12 July 2019 Assessment period ends 21 August 2019 May contact information
Lecturer/s
Associate Professor Mark Taylor, Coordinator
Email: law-masters@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 6190
Website: law.unimelb.edu.au
Additional delivery details
This subject has a quota of 30 students.
Enrolment is on a first come, first served basis. Waitlists are maintained for subjects that are fully subscribed.
Students should note priority of places in subjects will be given as follows:
- To currently enrolled Graduate Diploma and Masters students with a satisfactory record in their degree
- To other students enrolling on a single subject basis, eg Community Access Program (CAP) students, cross-institutional study and cross-faculty study.
Please refer to the Melbourne Law Masters website for further information about the management of subject quotas and waitlists.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Specialist materials will be made available free of charge from the Melbourne Law School prior to the pre-teaching period.
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022