Australia's three peak digital health and health information organisations have come out in support of sharing information through the My Health Record and the government’s decision to make it an opt-out system.
As debate continues on the privacy provisions of the legislation underpinning the system in the three-month opt-out period, the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) and the Health Information Management Australia Association (HIMAA) have issued a joint statement in support of the MyHR, saying the sharing of patient information is in everyone’s interest and the conversation should be about how to ensure better patient care.
