This appeared last week.
Affected by the floods?
If you’ve
been affected by the recent floods and need to access your medicine information,
go to My Health
Record. Your pharmacist can use the information to
help you get what you need.
If you
can't access your record, ask any pharmacy to check My Health Record to
see your prescription details.
You'll need to provide your Medicare number.
Here is a link:
https://www.digitalhealth.gov.au/
All this assumes all the records are there, are accessible and are current! It will also not cover private scripts etc.
The other gap was announced and warned about by the ADHA last week in a tweet. The #myHR is probably not complete and it is up to you to get the gaps.
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Here is the link:
https://twitter.com/AuDigitalHealth/status/1503892685618352129
Very helpful advice as the water laps around your knees or whatever!
There is a better way that already exists for more normal times. See here:
Hills Health's parent company buys connected care firm Extensia
The publicly listed firm continues its expansion into digital health.
By Adam Ang
March 16, 2022 01:05 am
Australia-listed Hills Limited, the parent company of health tech provider Hills Health Solutions, has announced its acquisition of connected care firm Extensia.
Extensia offers the RecordPoint platform which provides practitioners with real-time access to patient records and test results from anywhere. It enables safe sharing of health information through rigorous data security, user authentication, access control and audit trail views. Its solution has been used by governments, health services, aged care providers, indigenous health organisations, disabilities care providers, and research institutions.
WHAT IT'S FOR
According to a media release, Hills' acquisition of Extensia is part of its strategy to further expand into the digital health sector.
Hills, through Hills Health, delivers health tech solutions to hospitals and aged care facilities, including its nurse call, GetWell's patient engagement solutions, TV rental, and guest WiFi services
Together with Extensia, Hills said they will help resolve persisting challenges in Australia's health system, such as interoperability, visibility of information across disparate systems, and curating data into meaningful insights.
More here:
This product has been around for a decade + – has been systematically undermined and fibbed about by the AHDA – and is actually known to work well to do what the second paragraph above says!
So sad few of its previous users have stopped using it having been told the ‘free’ #myHR could replace it only to discover there were a few functional gaps that actually mattered!
Bottom line is that the #myHR cannot be trusted to be either current or complete and, surprise, surprise does not work all that well – as other systems don’t – without power and an internet connection or when the pharmacy or surgery is flooded!
Pretending it is a system for emergency use is a nonsense – a laminated card in the wallet or purse with your important health details is both preferable, more reliable, and cheaper I reckon!
I wonder when the ADHA will stop trying to sell the #myHR as a help in disasters when clearly it is not until services are restored and then it is – in their words (see graphic) – probably not complete!
David.
4 comments:
What the government tells you about your My Health Record is very strange:
1. It is your health record and contains a summary of your health information
However,
2. It has no history in it when you first look at it.
3. There is no place for your health history
4. Although it is your health record you cannot add much information, you have to ask your GP to upload a rather trivial summary
5. It will be full of transactional information about when you saw a GP or had a test, or were prescribed some medication, but not why, or were discharged from some institution.
In summary, it will contain a small amount of data, mostly about when you sought treatment. There is absolutely no indication if it reflects your current health status or if it is years out of date.
All for $2+billion and 15 years of wasted time and opportunities.
Your 3:31 PM comment should be given maximum exposure in the run-up to the Federal Election. The Liberal government has had every opportunity to terminate this profligate waste of public funds yet failed to do so. The coming budget and the election enables them to do do.
I think failure is the road to success, but in order for that to happen you have to accept failure and learn the lessons. Its clear that despite 20 years of trying and billions spend the road to success is not central government authorities. They have been the problem rather than the solution. Allowing interested people to develop standards and then enforce those standards for patient safety is in my view the only road to success. The lack of standards compliance with existing standards is the elephant in the room. If we had that much could happen quickly but I don't hold out much hope as the people with the expertise are drifting away out of disgust!
@7:20PM Please go to the top of the class Andrew.
I have long hoped that the "people with the expertise" could be brought together in a viable 'Consortium' structure underpinned with sufficient funding to enable a comprehensive 'standards compliant' solution to be developed and deployed in a contained (yet diverse) environment with sufficient 'critical mass' to preclude against it being 'dismantled' by 'those' unwilling to appreciate and accept its success.
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