My Health Record
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Sep 10, 2026
Louise SchaperHOST
So we've got more information here, more tracking, more AI, but we've also got Australians feeling less healthy, not more.
Louise SchaperHOST
And then meanwhile, on the clinical side, the Australian Digital Health Agency has confirmed that clinician use of the My Health record is genuinely surging.
Louise SchaperHOST
So views of diagnostic imaging reports are up 866%.
Louise SchaperHOST
Pathology reports are up 642% since Share by Default was announced in 2023.
George MargelisHOST
The fact that Australians are healthier and doing more about their health and have a better understanding of health.
George MargelisHOST
And if that means they use AI to improve that, that's great.
George MargelisHOST
But to your point around My Health Record, it also demonstrates that if you make the information available for people, they will access it.
George MargelisHOST
This was the original discussion we had back at the beginning.
Tanusha RamaluHOST
I, I will...
Tanusha RamaluHOST
I mean, often with My Health Record now, I can actually maybe get a picture of what's happening with a child if they have an active My Health Record.
Tanusha RamaluHOST
But often, you know, as the, as somebody treating an acute event, you may not have that visibility.
Tanusha RamaluHOST
But just from your perspective, what are some of the cases in your research that you've come across around accumulative, uh, steroid dosing?
Sharee JohnsonHOST
that trust in the relationship is really important for patients to have a place that they can go and ask questions and really think about what's going to work for them and for doctors to have meaningful work that's not somehow superseded or interrupted by the machinery of AI.
Sharee JohnsonHOST
We also talked about My Health Record, which is relevant, particularly at the moment, because on the 1st of July, we moved to sharing by default.
Sharee JohnsonHOST
So we talked about that.
Sharee JohnsonHOST
We also talked about those real feelings of when you step outside of what you know.
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Janice TanGUEST
And I think that is where the challenge is for us I don't think it falls primarily on the regulators, but us as a civilization as well, to think about how we are going to regulate this as a society as well and whether this can be regulated in the traditional sense or whether we need to take a more principled approach to regulation as well.
Janice TanGUEST
It's a brand new world for a lot of us, but it's also a little bit genuinely exciting as well to see how anthropologically society is changing and how we need to adapt to these things as well
Sharee JohnsonHOST
yeah big conversations i think that really we just need lots and lots of conversations can we can we turn our attention to my health record yes how how is that going for you from any of the angles that you're looking at it the first question is who owns the data From your understanding, my
Janice TanGUEST
point of view, it's always the patient.
Louise SchaperHOST
It's designed to help providers navigate that journey.
Louise SchaperHOST
It covers everything from digital strategy and governance, workforce capability and clinical safety, through to the My Health Record and interoperability, cybersecurity, vendor management, and of course, artificial intelligence.
Louise SchaperHOST
Well, to explore this and more, we're joined by Greg Moran from Aging Australia, who is the lead author of the toolkit.
Louise SchaperHOST
Greg has worked nationally in digital health strategy, engagement and workforce development with senior roles across government and industry in health and community care.
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Greg MoranGUEST
The emerging interoperability agenda and having standards built ensuring that information is shared across systems and that the data is captured appropriately is something that they should be focusing on and that it's not just bolted on, that it's actually starting to form part of their design process and that these tools in the future will be just interoperable.
Greg MoranGUEST
And from the border healthcare system, having a consistent connection point.
Greg MoranGUEST
So we're already seeing the introduction of My Health Record into aged care facilities.
Greg MoranGUEST
The national infrastructure around the transfer summaries and other things is all connection points that are going back to the healthcare system.
Sean StevensGUEST
It used to be Dr. Google.
Sean StevensGUEST
Now it's, you know, I've run it through AI and they can get their results off their My Health Record and they can, run up through ChatGPT and gets, you know...
Sean StevensGUEST
So our exclusive body of knowledge is becoming less and less exclusive.
Sean StevensGUEST
So I think...
Katie BurskiHOST
On the surface, it looks like it could be quite similar to Canada's, but in practice, it plays out quite differently.
Kate EbrillGUEST
I think one of the key things is when we actually established the My Health Record.
Kate EbrillGUEST
It's known as a personally controlled electronic health record when it launched in 2012.
Kate EbrillGUEST
And so under that, there was actually an act.
Kate EbrillGUEST
So there was an actually... an act established first around national health care identifiers.
Kate EbrillGUEST
And so they launched in 2011.
Kate EbrillGUEST
2012, we launched the National Electronic Health Record, known as My Health Record.
Kate EbrillGUEST
It's a summary record.
Monica TrujilloGUEST
I'll share a story that was just shared with me before, which was a really interesting story.
Monica TrujilloGUEST
And you'll appreciate this one because someone just shared that she found out that she had a lump and breast cancer through a result that was in My Health Record.
Monica TrujilloGUEST
No one had told her that before.
Monica TrujilloGUEST
And it's only because she went in and had a look because of, I forget what she shared with me.
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Farhoud SalimiGUEST
So it has to be right.
Farhoud SalimiGUEST
Yeah.
Peter BirchHOST
I feel one of the things that are going to enable and hopefully help a lot of consumers, I believe anyway, Peter, would be My Health Record.
Monica TrujilloGUEST
Yes.
Louise SchaperHOST
So with this new regulation, healthcare identifiers will be linked to wearable devices for the first time.
Louise SchaperHOST
Now, it's really important, this doesn't mean your smartwatch data or your Oura Ring is automatically gonna flow into My Health Record next February.
Louise SchaperHOST
But what it does mean is that the regulatory foundation for providers and software developers to connect the data from these wearables, from home monitoring and virtual care devices to the correct patient will be a reality.
Louise SchaperHOST
But of course, connecting the data is only the first challenge.
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George MargelisHOST
We all know it should happen, we all think it does happen, but the reality is there's so many complexities in the system, not necessarily because the data's not available, not necessarily because the practitioners aren't keen or don't understand the value of it, but the technical aspects of it just make it more complicated.
George MargelisHOST
Th- they describe the Australian GPs as severely bottlenecked by a lack of systemic, automated, and timely communication back from the rest of the healthcare sector.
George MargelisHOST
And we've all seen examples of that where people have gone into a hospital and their discharge summary now, in some states at least, it'll go to My Health Record.
George MargelisHOST
So again-
Herko CoomansGUEST
So as governments, one of the major things that's happening is, like you said, with EHTS, but also with national legislation that, that Estonia, I think pioneered years ago, but that other countries have built as well, like Finland and Denmark and Germany and France and the Netherlands and Spain and, and Belgium and all these other European countries have national legislation that build interoperability into the requirements for in different ways.
Herko CoomansGUEST
But also outside of Europe with the 21st Century Cures Act in the US, with the My Health Record re- legislation in Australia, with the incredibly huge Ayushman Bharat digital mission in India, which is scale-wise, it's, for us in the Netherlands, it's unfathomable.
Herko CoomansGUEST
It's, it's hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of healthcare providers and organizations.
Herko CoomansGUEST
But they're all doing the same thing, is in mandating the use of these standards, and my issue with that is that because we're mandating them, we also have a public accountability requirement and responsibility.
Paul TaitGUEST
But, you know, it still relied on me sort of picking up phones in the middle of really busy periods for the pharmacist and having secure ways to actually share information share relevant information with the pharmacist as a team member would be really critical.
Paul TaitGUEST
So you think about the dispensing software, and I know a lot of the information gets uploaded into the My Health Record, but I think there's still some improvements that we can make to help facilitate sharing of that information.
Paul TaitGUEST
That would be my one wish.
Carlene McMaughHOST
You have been a mentor to many early career pharmacists.