Here Are A Range Of Views Regarding Just How Far The #myHealthRecord Has Come.

This appeared last week:Is My Health Record becoming useful to GPs? Five months after the opt-out period ended, has Australia ’s digital health repository hit the threshold for usefulness? Some GPs give an emphatic yes, while others say it is still a work in progress.But that may depend on where GPs are based, with some states seeing far higher hospital uptake than others.Following months of at times tense debate around privacy and security provisions for the digital health record, around 90% of Australians now have a My Health Record, a system built by the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA). Around 90% of general practices and 83% of pharmacies have now signed up. More than 700 hospitals are connected, and the ADHA estimates around 20 million clinical documents are now online, including 3.3 million discharge summaries.  But progress has been piecemeal, with one expert telling newsGP Victoria ’s decentralised hospital network is making sign-up slower than in other... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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