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LAWS6058: Information Rights in Health Care
2025 unit information
This unit deals with patients rights to information in the modern health care system. The unit will focus on consent to treatment and will include discussion of capacity the duty of health professionals to disclose the risks of treatment refusal of treatment and emergency health care. The unit will also examine duties of confidentiality in health care ownership of and access to medical records and information rights in medical research. Available as one of the core units for students enrolled in the MHL and GradDipHL in addition to LAWS6252. Further information about this unit is available in the Sydney Law School timetable https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable, unit of study outline https://www.sydney.edu.au/units and academic staff profile https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff.html
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
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 |
| Prohibitions:
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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 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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