Health professionals

The eHealth record will allow you, as a registered healthcare professional, to see an online summary of each patient’s key medical information, securely stored in a single location.

The eHealth record will benefit you in many ways. You will no longer need to ask new patients for their medical history, saving you and your staff valuable time. The risk will be lower of a patient forgetting to give you a relevant piece of information, helping you to reach a more accurate diagnosis and thus making treatment safer and more effective.

You and your patient will decide which information will go into their eHealth record, and the patient will control who is allowed to view which parts of the record. As a summary only, the eHealth record will not contain detailed information, which will stay in individual healthcare organisations’ systems. The eHealth record will not replace your existing medical records or the notes you make of a patient’s history.

An eHealth record may contain information such as your clinical summary of the patient’s health status (including medications, allergies and immunisations), a hospital discharge summary, and event summaries of consultations with each healthcare professional the patient sees.

As the system grows over time, an eHealth record may also contain pathology reports, dispensing notices, referrals and specialist letters.

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