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My Health Record resources for community health staff: focusing on the Mental Health Toolkit
Event details
When Wednesday,
25 August 2021
1:00pm - 2:00pm (AEST)
Where Online
Hosted by Australian Digital Health Agency
Contact us
General enquiries
Phone: 1300 901 001
8am - 5pm (AEST/AEDT) Monday - Friday
Email: help@digitalhealth.gov.au
My Health Record is becoming an increasingly significant summary record of an individual’s health information.
Mental health plays a crucial part in an individual’s wellbeing and having relevant information in My Health Record will assist in supporting clients with complex health needs (such as mental health conditions).
The Australian Digital Health Agency is hosting a virtual session focusing on the Mental Health Toolkit which includes a range of practical resources to assist you in providing care to your clients. This session is intended for a range of providers including nurses and allied health
Here is the link:
You can rea about the Mental Health Toolkit here:
https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/for-healthcare-professionals/mental-health-toolkit
The #myHealthRecord site makes it clear there is an expectation that its data be carefully controlled:
Who can access your record?
Apart from you, the only people who can view or access your My Health Record are:
- Your healthcare providers (e.g. GPs, specialists or hospital staff)
- People you invite to help you manage your record (nominated representatives)
- People who manage your record for you if you are not able to (authorised representatives)
Access by a healthcare provider
Only healthcare provider organisations involved in your care, who are registered with us, are allowed by law to access your My Health Record.
Treating healthcare providers can view documents in your My Health Record as part of the default preferences.
You can add extra privacy controls, so you can choose which healthcare organisations can access your record, or individual documents in it.
Find out how to set extra privacy controls on your record
Here is the link:
https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/for-you-your-family/howtos/who-can-access-your-record
This all seems a bit line ball to me. Trying to ramp up usage of the system by encouraging mental health nurses and allied health to use it seems a big stretch. To be accessing and updating what is meant to be a record of physical illness and results etc. for mental health cases seems a bit perverse. Use of the #myHR to record information, which is by its nature often very sensitive and personal, and not well codified, I really wonder about.
I am not sure the designers of the #myHR saw their system as much use for this type of record keeping.
What do others think. Should the ADHA be trying to promote the use of the #myHR in a domain for which I would argue it is poorly suited?
David.
3 comments:
David, are you sure you mean "poorly suited"?
Given that MyHR is supposed to be driven by the patient, for the patient, is it realistic that someone suffering from mental problems could be trusted to keep their MyHR current, up-to-date and complete?
I think a better description would be "totally unsuitable, unreliable and potentially dangerous."
Bet the ADHA committee members are descendants of the committee members who recommended the introduction of the European Rabbit to Australia.
This all seems a bit line ball to me. Trying to ramp up usage of the system by encouraging
This seems to be an annual recurring event; what happened to GP’s being the answer? What happened to emergency, pharmacy, specialists, consumers, people with three freckles? I know my vet is eager. I would find it beneficially to be able to see my pet hamsters health record.
Please can we repurpose this as a data portal to access government MBS PBS data and let more contemporary solutions enhance healthcare delivery and allow consumer apps to provide whatever personal record management the few want.
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