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Personally controlled electronic health records

Australians will be able to check their medical history online through the introduction of personally controlled electronic health records, which will boost patient safety, improve health care delivery, and cut waste and duplication.
The national e-health records system will be a key building block of the National Health and Hospitals Network announced by the Federal Government. The new healthcare identifier service will underpin e-health records. Read the press release

So what is e-health?

Benefits of e-health

The national e-health initiative is the first time that Australian governments have embraced end-to-end integrated e-health. Whilst this is complex, it offers long-term benefits:

  • It will streamline the secure delivery of healthcare information
  • Strip away repetitious and inefficient processes
  • Improve patient healthcare outcomes
  • More secure, convenient and co-ordinated interactions across the many different parts of the health system

Healthcare Identifiers Service

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Healthcare Identifiers Service

Adopting a national approach to healthcare identifiers recognises that identifiers are part of the core infrastructure needed to support secure electronic communication across Australia's healthcare system.

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Your privacy rights with e-health

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Your privacy rights with e-health

The privacy of your health information is important and will be protected with e-health.

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Model Healthcare Community

THE HON NICOLA ROXON MP Minister for Health and Ageing

Model Healthcare Community

THE HON NICOLA ROXON MP Minister for Health and Ageing visited Medicare Australia to see how the secure e-health system currently being developed will work for patients and healthcare providers.

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