Federal Department of Health officials and representatives from project evaluation firm Siggins Miller will visit Cairns and Mareeba later this week to talk to local primary healthcare providers and community members about the opt-out My Health Record trial set to begin in a couple of months, as applications for the position managing the trial roll-out close.

Northern Queensland is one of two sites chosen to trial an opt-out version of the My Health Record, formerly known as the PCEHR. The area includes over 670,000 people who will have a record created for them unless they choose not to.