The My Health Record (MyHR) Adoption in General Practices

Running head: MY HEALTH REPORT
MY HEALTH REPORT
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Introduction
My Health Record is the online portal through which the people can access and record
their health details. These details can be accessed by the patients and they can share those details
with doctors, healthcare providers and hospitals if needed ("My Health Record | What is My
Health Record?", 2018). This healthcare portal can contain various important information like-
medical reports of the patients, record of past medical, pathology reports cases and the list of
possible complications like allergies.
Problems:
The problems of using My Health Record can come in a various way. The problem may
be technological or it can be based on the use of the end users.
Technological Problem:
It has been observed that using Google Chrome or Firefox for opening the portal may
give the error message.
There was some security issues involved with the system (Muhammad &
Wickramasinghe, 2018). Sometimes the records of the health portal were being shared with the
health care providers, without the permission of the user of the portal. However this security has
been fixed now.
Some discharge summaries of the patients uploaded by ACT were not visible to some
health clinic system.
Problem in the user environment of the My Health Record:

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It has been found out that in recent years many people are not using this online health care
portal.
 Many people are not listing all of their medical issues properly in the health portal. This
makes the hospitals and the doctors unable to get the proper case history of the patients.
 The design of My Health Record is mostly inclined towards the people with a sense of e-
health literacy (Ben-Assuli,2015). Using this portal needs minimum knowledge about the
health care management and health awareness. People with poor sense of health
management and low literacy about the health concern are needed to be encouraged to
use the My Health Record portal.
Capabilities:
My Heath Record has different capabilities. The main aim of this type of health portal is
the easy and relevant way of exchanging critical and important medical information between
the doctors, other health care providers and patients.
 E-Health Foundation:
It provides a technology based secured and encrypted way of exchanging information
between the doctors and the patients.
 It provides the linkage between the patient’s details with different health policies,
those are taken by the patient (Hanna et al.,2017). This enables the way for the
hospital to treat the patient accordingly and get the required policy details from the
portal.
 eHealth reference platform: