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❓ Mr Kirkup requests detailed information on patient entertainment systems (PES) in East Metropolitan Health Service hospitals, including content, vendor details, costs, and data privacy practices. The Minister provides some information and tables further details.

AnsweredQoN 5740Legislative Assembly

Asked

13 November 2019

Member

Mr Z.R.F. Kirkup

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Deputy Premier; Minister for Health; Mental Health

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Will the Minister provide a list of all entertainment, distraction and relaxation content options provided for each Patient Entertainment System (PES) across each hospital in the East Metropolitan Health Service, including: (a) The name and brief description of each content option; (b) The name and location of the vendor providing the content option; (c) The recurrent cost to the taxpayer for each content option; and (d) Can the Minister confirm whether the vendor is provided with any of the following details, as a result of the app being on the PES: (i) IP address and computer/mobile device identifiers (such as device ID, advertising ID, MAC address and IMEI); (ii) Data about the device, such as device name and operating system, browser type and language; (iii) Data collected with advertising cookies; (iv) Coarse location data (country or city-specific); (v) Demographic data (such as to determine the coarse location of IP addresses); (vi) Data for advertising and analytics purposes; and (vii) Patient identifying data (names, ages, genders etc.)?