Public Forum: "Electronic Health Record Sharing System from a Privacy Perspective"

A territory-wide Electronic Health Record Sharing system has been introduced in Hong Kong, which has created new challenges for medical practitioners in ensuring patients' data being correct and accessible only to authorized persons. To help relevant stakeholders have better understanding on this topic, the PCPD has organized a public forum on 12 June 2009.

This Public Forum was part of the 31st Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities (APPA) meeting hosted by the PCPD. In addition to the APPA members from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Korea and Hong Kong, over 180 representatives of public and private medical institutions, government officials, stakeholders of relevant fields, and members of the Data Protection Officers' Club also attended the Public Forum.

Three experts from Hong Kong were invited to speak on the subject from different perspectives:

"The Future of Health Informatics in Hong Kong", Dr. N T Cheung, Consultant (eHealth), Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR (Click here to download the presentation) "Electronic Health Records - A private practitioner's perspective", Dr. Gabriel Kin Choi, Immediate Past President of Hong Kong Medical Association (Click here to download the presentation) "Electronic Health Record Data Security", Dr. Elizabeth Quat, Founder & Immediate Past President (00-06), Internet Professional Association (Click here to download the presentation)

A panel discussion was followed. The panel comprised the Privacy Commissioners of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong.

(From left) Ms. Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner, Canada; Ms. Karen Curtis, Privacy Commissioner, Australia; Mr. Roderick Woo, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong; and Ms. Marie Shroff, Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand shared views with participants during the panel discussion.

(Poster in PDF format) Privacy Awareness Week 2009 ("PAW 2009") in Hong Kong

"Privacy Reports"

"Privacy Reports" is a project involving the making of a series of short videos produced by students of four secondary schools featuring social issues that impact on personal data privacy in Hong Kong. In the course of the project, the students were provided with the opportunity to attend seminars on personal data privacy issues and interview selected legislators, government officials and experts. The students were then expected to analyze, evaluate, construct and express their points of view towards the issues through the shooting of the videos.

School Privacy Issue View the video Wah Yan College, Hong Kong Security measures of Smart ID Card Po Kok Secondary School Privacy risks arising from social networking websites C.C.C. Kwei Wah Shan College Installation of CCTV in public places Salesian English School (Secondary Section) IT security

"Privacy Awareness Week 2009" animation video

View the animation video

Members of the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities have jointly produced a two-minute short animation video titled "Your Privacy is Important. Think before you upload!" for this year's Privacy Awareness Week to remind people, especially young people, of the importance of personal data privacy when they upload personal data online to prevent personal data theft.

PAW 2009 in Hong Kong

"Introduction to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance" Seminar

In order to raise public's awareness and understanding of the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data organizes introductory seminars on the Ordinance monthly. The details are as follows:

Date of Seminar:

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