Notwithstanding this fundamental deficiency, the government is pushing ahead with an inherently risky scheme. A recent poll on the AMA’s doctors portal suggests 76% of respondents think the MHR will not improve patient outcomes while 12% think it will. Many doctors have in fact objected to the incompleteness and lack of utility of the MHR. In an emergency, an unreliable record is a distraction, not a help. If, for example, a doctor were treating a child in an emergency, the doctor could not rely on an MHR to know what medications the child has been prescribed up to that date. The My Health Record system contains an online summary of a patient’s key health information not a complete record of their clinical history. As the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) points out: It can’t be relied upon as a clinical recordĬontrary to what many Australians may believe, MHR is not a clinically-reliable medical record, and was not designed to be. There are three main problems with the MHR scheme. You will need to trust that it will not be breached. If you don’t opt out during this period and later choose to cancel your record, you will no longer be able to access that record but the government will continue to store it until 30 years after your death. Unless you take action to remove yourself from the My Health Record (MHR) system, the federal government will make a digital copy of your medical record, store it centrally, and, as the default, provide numerous people with access to it. You can read the case for opting in to My Health Record here. The My Health Record (MHR) opt-out period begins today and you have until October 15 to decide whether or not to be part of the scheme.
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