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Type of site | Health records |
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| Available in | 17 languages |
List of languages English, Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Persian, Tigrinya, Malayalam, Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Greek, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese | |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Owner | Australian Digital Health Agency |
| URL | myhealthrecord |
| Commercial | No |
| Users | 22.8 million (August 2020) |
| Launched | 2016 |
| Current status | Online |
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My Health Record (MHR) is the national digital health record platform for Australia, and is managed by the Australian Digital Health Agency. It was originally established as the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR), a shared electronic health summary set up by the Australian government with implementation overseen by the National Electronic Health Transition Authority (NEHTA). The purpose of the MHR is to provide a secure electronic summary of people's medical history[1] which will eventually include information such as current medications, adverse drug reactions, allergies and immunisation history in an easily accessible format. This MHR is stored in a network of connected systems with the ability to improve the sharing of information amongst health care providers to improve patient outcomes no matter where in Australia a patient presents for treatment.[2][3] PCEHR was an opt-in system with a unique individual healthcare identifier (IHI) being assigned to participants and the option of masking and limiting information available for viewing controlled by the patient or a nominated representative; MHR uses an opt-out system.
- ^ "e-Health". The Australian Nursing Journal. 20 (2): 20.
- ^ Spriggs, Merele; et al. (2012). "Ethical Questions Must be Considered for Electronic Health Records". Journal of Medical Ethics. 38 (9): 535–539. doi:10.1136/medethics-2011-100413. PMID 22573881. S2CID 19771269.
- ^ "What is a PCEHR?". NEHTA. Retrieved 12 May 2013.