During your treatment, it will be necessary to collect and store personal information about you. This is collected by Dr Subramanya and our practice team and is accessed by them during your care. In accordance with the Privacy Act (1988) and Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024, all information collected is treated as ‘sensitive information’. To protect your privacy, this practice operates in accordance with the Act.

​Precision Upper GI Surgery collects information from you for the primary purpose of providing personalised pathways towards excellent care and health outcomes. We require you to provide us with your personal details and a full medical history. Human skill combined with Artificial Intelligence are leading to better patient outcomes, we keep up with technology and innovation. Dr Subramanya is now utilising AI technology in recording and documenting consultation proceedings (i-scribe).

You can assist in maintaining the accuracy of your information by advising the practice of changes of details including contact and medical information.

When necessary, your information will be obtained from other Health professionals to ensure continuation of your health journey and treatment plan.

The information collected will also be used in the following ways:

• Administrative purposes in running our medical practice.
• Billing and medical rebate purposes, including compliance with Medicare and other government agencies.
• Disclosure to others involved in your health care (including treating doctors and specialists inside and outside this medical practice, hospitals to which you are admitted and providers of diagnostic services), which may occur through referral to other doctors, or for medical tests and in the reports of results returned to us following the referrals. The use of digital photographs in web-based consultations with pathologists and other specialists may also occur to assist in your health care.
• Disclosure for research and quality assurance activities to improve individual and community health care and practice management. Any information used outside of this practice will be de-identified.
• There may be occasions when disclosure of your information is required for medical defence purposes or legal requirements or for mandatory reporting e.g. communicable diseases.
• Your medical information may also be used beyond providing health care, such as professional accreditation, research, quality assessments and clinical auditing.
• We will not discuss medical conditions or appointment information with anyone but the patient (if over 16) without their signed consent. This includes all relatives and spouses.
• We may disclose your personal information to third parties, and you consent to us disclosing your personal information to third parties, as part of a sale of all or part of our business
• we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we hold is not lost, misused, or inadvertently provided to unauthorised third parties
• You have the right (excluding exceptions outlined in the Privacy Act) to seek access to and update or correct the personal information we hold about you.
• If you would like to seek access to personal information we hold about you, you can contact us by phone or in person and you will be required to complete a ‘Request for Access Form’