Category Archives: My Health Record

An improved My Health Record will be at centre of push to modernise primary healthcare

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Better digital systems are to be discussed at national cabinet, while the AMA will call for stronger safeguards to protect patient data

The under-utilised and much-maligned My Health Record will be at the centre of a push to modernise primary healthcare, with better digital systems to be discussed at national cabinet.

The Strengthening Medicare Taskforce has agreed to improve and expand the use of the platform, with a broader range of health professionals able to access and add to digital health records a key recommendation of its report to drive improvements in primary care.

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My Health Record: after 12 years and more than $2bn, hardly anyone is using digital service

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Research shows many Australians find medical records not uploaded and clinicians fail to see benefits of using the national online database

Twelve years after the introduction of My Health Record, Australians are struggling to access their medical information, while clinicians report frustrating difficulties uploading and finding vital health details such as pathology results and diagnostic tests.

The latest annual report from the Australian Digital Health Agency shows just 2.69 million of the 23 million people registered for a My Health Record accessed it in 2020-21. While this is an increase of 14% from the previous year, it was largely driven by people accessing Covid-19 vaccination records and Covid-19 test results.

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More than 2.5 million people have opted out of My Health Record

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New figures show that during the three-month extension about 1.4 million people opted out

More than 2.5 million Australians have opted out of the My Health Record system, new figures show.

The figures, revealed in Senate estimates on Wednesday, show almost one in 10 Australians eligible for Medicare have opted out of the controversial system.

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