My Health Record (MHR)

Running head: MY HEALTH RECORD [MHR]
MY HEALTH RECORD [MHR]
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MY HEALTH RECORD1
After so many years of ambiguity regarding the functioning of the eHealth system in the
nation, Australia is gearing up for the challenge by escalating the scheme of My Health Record
(MHR) to the whole population of the country, excepting those individuals who selected to stay
out of the scheme. According to Hemsley et. al. (2016), if an individual of the nation chose to
remain with the scheme of MHR system, then the government of the nation shall create a digital
record of the medical information of such individual, which shall be centrally stored and such
individual shall have access to the record. There are three primary issues with this scheme.
Firstly, one cannot rely on such e-record as a record of medical information. Many
Australians might believe that MHR is an e-record that can be trusted and can be depended on.
However, contrary to what these Australians think, the other individuals of the nation believe
that MHR is not a clinically dependable health record. According to the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner (OAIC), the system of MHR contains an internet based summary
relevant information about the health of a particular patient (Bennett, 2013). For instance, if a
child was being treated by a doctor in the emergency, that particular doctor would not be able to
trust the MHR to obtain information about the medicines of that child till date. In the case of an
emergency, any information or knowledge that is untrustworthy is not help but a diversion.
Certain doctors have raised objections regarding the incompleteness and lack of usefulness of the
system of MHR. Even after such opinions of the doctors of the nation, the government is
spearheading this dicey scheme.
Secondly, according to the MHR”s privacy policy itself, the Australian Digital Health
Agency (ADHA) mentioned that there are perils in relation to the storage and transmission of
private data being done online. If medical records are being stored digitally then the hacker,
snoopers and the criminals will have access to such information. The hackers can steal the