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Doctor booking site HealthEngine fined $2.9 million for misleading patients – Sydney Morning Herald
The company shared non-clinical personal information of more than 135,000 patients and edited bad GP reviews published on its website.
Dr Tan said that while HealthEngine provided personal information to private health insurers when customers had called regarding a health insurance comparison, they had never sold user databases to third parties.
The court found that over five years, HealthEngine gave non-clinical personal information of more than 135,000 patients to third party private health insurance brokers without adequate disclosure – earning the company more than $1.8 million from its arrangements with private health ins…
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