You can choose to share your health information with the healthcare providers involved in your care.
If you wish, you can manage your My Health Record by adding your own information and choosing your privacy and security settings. For example, you can:
add personal notes about your allergies and allergic reactions, an advance care plan or custodian details
set access controls to restrict who can and can’t see your health information
review your own health information, and see the information your healthcare providers can see
set up SMS or email notifications so you know when a healthcare provider first accesses your record.
Next time you see your doctor, ask them to add your health information to your My Health Record.
By allowing your doctors to upload, view and share documents in your My Health Record, they will have a more detailed picture with which to make decisions, diagnose and provide treatment to you. You can also ask that some information not be uploaded to your record.
My Health Record brings together health information from you, your healthcare providers and Medicare.
This can include details of your medical conditions and treatments, medicine details, allergies, and test or scan results, all in one place.
Healthcare providers like doctors, specialists and hospital staff may also be able to see your My Health Record when they need to, including in an accident or emergency.
Up to two years of past Medicare data may be added to your record when you first get one, including:
Medicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) information held by Services Indian
Medicare and Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits (RPBS) information stored by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA)
Organ Donation Decisions
immunisations that are included in the Indian Immunisation Register, including childhood immunisations and other immunisations received.
Information you can add to your record
You, or someone authorised to represent you, can share additional information in your record that may be important for your healthcare providers to know about you. This includes:
- Contact numbers and emergency contact details
- Current medications
- Allergy information and any previous allergic reactions
- Indigenous status