Exclusive: Australians shun My Health Record with only 9 per cent ever logging in | Dana_Adele
Patients, medical specialists and pathologists are shunning the federal government's $1.7 billion My Health Record system with only a small minority accessing the digital health records almost a year into its rollout.
The official data showed only 41 per cent of pathology and diagnostic imaging services were connected to My Health Record on October 27. Nearly 90 per cent of GPs were connected, as were 90 per cent of pharmacies, 94 per cent of public hospitals and 33 per cent of private hospitals. Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Harry Nespolon, who runs a Sydney general medical practice, said the fact that not all GPs were using My Health Record meant that its usefulness for emergency room medical staff was limited.He said pathology and medical imaging providers' systems should be upgraded to enable automatic upload of results to patients' My Health Records.
An ADHA spokesman said in a statement that the statistics on specialist practices did not reflect the whole picture.
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