Digital Health Privacy and Security Issues
PostgraduateTAS-BAA5482025
Previously TAS-CRH503
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,780
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Digital Health Privacy and Security Issues
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Discuss the health information concepts of confidentiality, integrity, and availability and relevancy to privacy and security
- Analyse stakeholder perspectives and challenges in protecting of health information
- Justify the recommendation of appropriate information security measures to manage identified risks
- Consider the contribution of ethical and legal frameworks for guiding health informatics professionals
- Module 1 – Digital Health, Security Goals and Legal Frameworks
- Module 2 – Digital Health Threats and Risks
- Module 3 – Threat Assessment, Risk Analysis and Risk Management and Privacy
- Module 4 – Access and Stakeholders
- Module 5 – Ethical Frameworks
- Module 6 – Managing Competing Demands
- Module 7 – Digital Health Security Strategies
This subject explores the information security issues arising from technology use in the health care environment. Consideration is given to legal and ethical concepts and issues, with an emphasis on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of health information. Students are provided the opportunity to apply their learning by undertaking a risk analysis and mitigation process related to the core business of a health organisation. Security standards and systems are discussed in context to protecting personal health information, including the limitations of the technology to support this.
- Breach Report (30%)
- Risk Analysis Report (30%)
- Policy Document (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-EHL-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Digital Health
- TAS-ADH-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
- TAS-ADH-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
TAS-CRH503 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Online tutorial 1 hr x 6 times per semester. Independent learning approx 10 hrs weekly.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Digital Health
PostgraduateTAS-EHL-GCE
Graduate Diploma of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
PostgraduateTAS-ADH-GDI
Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
PostgraduateTAS-ADH-MAS