❓ A WA parliamentary question seeks details on patient entertainment systems (PES) in North Metropolitan Health Service hospitals, including content, vendor costs, and data privacy. The Minister's response indicates no cost to taxpayers and no apps on the PES, rendering data privacy concerns inapplicable.
AnsweredQoN 5738Legislative Assembly
Asked
13 November 2019
Member
Portfolio
Deputy Premier; Minister for Health; Mental Health
QuestionView source ↗
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 North 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.)?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
11 February 2020
Response time
6 days
I am advised:
(a) Television channels (both ‘free to air’ and movie channels) and in House Hospital Information / Education channels.
(b) Hills TV Rentals Pty Ltd T/As Hospital Television Rentals
3-29 Birnie Avenue, Lidcombe, NSW 2141.
(c) There is no cost to the taxpayer for either content option.
(d) There are no apps on the PES at Sir Charles Gairdner or Osborne Park Hospitals.
(i)-(vii) Not applicable.
(a) Television channels (both ‘free to air’ and movie channels) and in House Hospital Information / Education channels.
(b) Hills TV Rentals Pty Ltd T/As Hospital Television Rentals
3-29 Birnie Avenue, Lidcombe, NSW 2141.
(c) There is no cost to the taxpayer for either content option.
(d) There are no apps on the PES at Sir Charles Gairdner or Osborne Park Hospitals.
(i)-(vii) Not applicable.
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