The RACGP Asks An Important Question About The #myHealthRecord But The Answers Are As Clear As it Could Be!

Here is the poll status at 1pm 19 June 2022

newsGP weekly poll

How often do you find something clinically useful when checking a patient’s My Health Record?

Frequently                                           17%

Around half the time                           21%

Rarely                                                   38%

Never                                                    22%

Here is the link:

https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp

 I find the results very interesting with useful information being found hardly ever with 60% of respondents and more often in about 40%

Missing, frustratingly from the poll, given how rarely we see any clinical value data from the ADHA, is the sample size and just how often the #myHR is actually used by GPs.

We would be better off with a 2 part question.

Part 1 – How often, on average, do you use the #mHR a month looking for patient clinical data?

Part 2 – The question above

In both cases total and individual numbers are needed!

That way we could understand just what the level of usefulness was found by the average GP, admitting that it might be hard to exclude bias in the answers – given who is likely to respond!.

I would love to know what the answers would be – and I am sure the information would help the new Minister to decide what to do with the #myHR as well as check up on what the non-statistics provided by the ADHA might mean.

Would it not be wonderful if the ADHA was just open and honest with the public!

What do you reckon?

David.