My Health Record
or
Good Luck Tiger
(you're going to need it!)
Many thanks to Megan Davies from My Health Record for speaking to the club at Thursday's meeting. It was a very informative and enjoyable evening!
My Health Record is an Australian Government / Primary Health Network (phn) initiative designed to provide an online summary of an individual's key health information. Once established, it will bring together information from.....
Health care providers:
- doctor's health summary
- hospital discharge summaries
- reports from tests and scans
- prescribed medications
- referral letters
Medicare:
- Medicare and Pharmaceutical benefits
- organ donation decisions
- immunisations
Miscellaneous personal:
- emergency contacts
- current medications
- allergies and adverse reactions
- Indigenous status
- Advance Care Plans
…..resulting in faster and more efficient care anywhere in Australia.
A few of the benefits of the My Health Record:
- all your healthcare information is available in one place and easily accessible by your doctor
- when moving or travelling your information can be securely accessed online
- in emergency situations, your healthcare information can be accessed by treating doctors
- you don't need to remember the dates of tests or medicine names or dosages
- provides a more detailed picture with which to make clinical decisions, diagnose and provide treatment
This week's guests were Megan Davies and Christian Neilson