Efficiency of New Legislation on My Health Record

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MY HEALTH RECORD
HOW EFFICIENT IS THE NEW LEGISLATION ON MY HEALTH RECORD?
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Introduction................................................................................................................................3
My health record background information................................................................................3
Legislation already in place.......................................................................................................4
Changes made by the new reform..............................................................................................4
Deletion of records.................................................................................................................4
Release of records...................................................................................................................4
Academic views.........................................................................................................................5
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Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
Summary....................................................................................................................................7
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MY HEALTH RECORD
Introduction
On 31st July, Greg Hunt, Minister for Health announced a new legislation on My
Health Record (Gribbin, 2018, OAIC, 2018). He introduced into Federal Parliament’s House
of Representatives, My Health Records Amendment Bill 2018 (Timebase, 2018). With the
introduction of this legislation, a patient's health records cannot be accessed by the police or
government agencies without a court order, the records of a person who cancelled his My
Health Record application will be permanently deleted and a patient's personal information
will be protected. Just how efficient is this new legislation?
My health record background information
With the advancement in technology, the health sector has been computerised. My
Health Record, a system of digitally recording a patient's health information has been used
and will continue to be used in Australia (Australian Digital Health Agency, 2018). ADHA is
the system operator of My Health Record in Australia (Australian Digital Health Agency,
2018). This system stores records of the patient's health information like immunisation,
pathology results, organ donation and PBS information. There is also a record of the patient's
health summary and personal health notes. Those in support of it mention that it reduces
medical errors while those against it raise concerns of the extent of privacy and security the
system offers. Positive views have been given by Australians and the videos of feedback
from the citizens are in the Australian Digital Health Agency website, 2018. Some of the
benefits of the system include: the system can be accessed nationally , a record of the medical
history of a patient helps medical practitioners to treat the patient's better especially for
patients who don't have specific doctors .A patient is in control of his health records and can
thus say what can be uploaded in the system, what stays there and who can see the records
Hanna, Gill, Newstead, Hawkins and Osborne (2017), continuous updates in the system will