My Health Record

Last updated: 20 September 2019 RSS feed

A My Health Record is an electronic summary of a patient’s health information. A registered healthcare provider organisation may view or add health information (such as diagnoses, treatments, medications and allergies) to a patient’s My Health Record as long as they follow their access controls.

In this section

Privacy and the My Health Record system

Watch our videos for health service providers to learn more

Using the My Health Record system

Upload, download or correct a record, rules that apply

My Health Record access controls

Who sets access controls and what the controls can do

Handling information in a My Health Record

Who can handle a record's information, and handling breaches

Guide to mandatory data breach notification

How to notify a data breach in the My Health Record system

RACGP and OAIC eHealth webinar on the Notifiable Data Breaches schemes

What general practice teams need to do under the NDB scheme

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