My Health Record does not replace existing health records. Rather, it supplements these with a high-value, shared source of patient information that can improve care planning and decision making.
Information available through My Health Record can include a patient’s health summary, medication prescribing and dispensing history, pathology reports, diagnostic imaging reports and discharge summaries.
You can find My Health Record information specific to your usual place of work below:
Important patient information will be available to you quickly and when you need it. Other benefits include more time with patients, less time chasing clinical information and investigations, resending or chasing referrals, scanning, printing, filing and posting.
This, in turn, will lead to better information sharing between different sources, for example between GPs and hospitals.
Brisbane-based GP, Dr Caroline Yates, talks about the benefits of My Health Record for her patients in this short video.
Dene Creegan, General Manager of 7Springs Medical Practice is using My Health Record to help manage patients’ healthcare in her Toowoomba practice in this short video.
Registered nurse, Rachel Roy talks about the benefits of My Health Record and how using it means nurses can spend more time with their patients and less time searching for information in this short video.
Pharmacists talk about the benefits of My Health Record in this short video.
Jamie Marshall, a clinical psychologist reflects about the benefits and uses of My Health Record in allied healthcare settings in this interview with Dr Jo Burnand, FRACMA.
Find out more about the benefits to healthcare professionals.
A range of general practice and pharmacy software summary sheets with step-by-step instructions for interacting with My Health Record can be found here.
A range of general practice and pharmacy software simulators on use of My Health Record can be found here.
These simulators are regularly updated as new features become available.
Online training courses are currently available for those working in general practice, hospitals, nursing, community pharmacy and allied health.
The training introduces My Health Record and outlines its benefits, features and functionalities.
Contact the Gippsland PHN Digital Health team at Digital.Health@gphn.org.au for resources and more information specific to your place of work.