A large government health agency was preparing to implement a wide-ranging, multi-stage electronic medical record program.

Smartnet was engaged to develop a privacy framework and associated tools for ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, as well as a suite of privacy impact assessments of specific initiatives, and advice on risk identification/mitigation, stakeholder consultation, business case development and legislative reform.

Over a period of time a skills transfer program was implemented to build organisational capacity in privacy compliance and with subject matter experts, including privacy contact officers and a series of check-point reviews were conducted before the roll-out of specific initiatives.
Smartnet has highly skilled practitioners and extensive expertise in privacy impact assessment, information risk assessment, privacy compliance and information management. Smartnet is represented on the board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals – Australia/New Zealand.