Compliance · Health and aged care
Health information attracts the heaviest privacy obligations under Australian law, and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme treats a medical record the same way it treats a bank detail. The practices we onboard usually have the clinical side under control and the IT side running on trust.
Live right now · health and aged care
Active regulatory pressures we're already working through with clients in your sector. Each card links to the detailed guide.
In force since 1 November 2025 for registered aged-care providers. Information Management is an explicit standard with audit-grade expectations on records, access, and cyber resilience. Captures aged-care providers, not broader medical or allied-health practices.
Read the full guideWhat we do · compliance practice
What we do for a health or aged-care provider starts with privacy. The Australian Privacy Principles treat health information as a sensitive category, and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme means a breach is not a private matter. We build the access, logging, and breach-response infrastructure that turns a notifiable event into a survivable one rather than an existential one.
For practices using My Health Record and the ADHA ecosystem, we implement the technical conformance the ADHA expects. For aged-care providers operating under the Aged Care Act 2024 and the Strengthened Quality Standards, the Information Management standard reaches directly into IT (record retention, access control, audit-grade evidence, cyber resilience). We map the obligation to the control and build the control into the stack.
Aged care has been the most-targeted sub-sector of Australian healthcare for several years running, and the threat does not care that the provider is a not-for-profit running on a thin operating margin. We build the cyber-resilience baseline (Essential Eight controls plus the identity and backup discipline that turn a ransomware event into an incident rather than a closure) before the Commission asks for it, so when the audit comes the answer is operational, not aspirational.
Where it fits · managed IT engagement
The Client Security Baseline covers the core of what the Privacy Act and the Aged Care Quality Standards expect from IT. Specialist overlays (clinical-system integration, ADHA conformance, aged-care-specific incident reporting) layer on per engagement. We do not provide clinical governance advice; we build the infrastructure the clinical governance function relies on.
Next step · start with the evidence
The Essential Eight self-assessment takes about ten minutes and gives you a branded PDF report you can hand to your compliance officer, your insurer, or your board the same day. If you want to confirm we're the right shop for the work, the fit check comes next.
