We Really Have To Move Slowly And Carefully With Health Record Apps. It Is Not All That Easy!

This appeared a few days ago.http://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/now-need-take-myhr-emr-apps-seriously/16 March, 2017Now you need to take the MyHR and EMR apps seriouslyPosted by Jeremy Knibbs We ’re great ones for predictions at The Medical Republic so here goes a couple of big ones regarding personal electronic health records and GPs.The My Health Record system (MyHR) is finally going to do some good, but patients carrying around their personal electronic medical records (EMR) isn’t go ing to look anything like government agencies or doctor groups have been saying it will for a while. That’s probably a relief because no one could quite work out how the MyHR was ever really going to work if neither doctors nor patients had particularly bought into uploading and maintaining the da ta.Two things are happening about the MyHR project that should be far more interesting to GPs:The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) (formerly the NEHTA) is starting to cut through the murky world... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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