I'm an unashamed supporter of the concept of an electronic health record that enables both patients and healthcare professionals to access and share relevant information. With the right protections in place of course.

So I'm thrilled that the Minister for Health, Susan Ley, has now launched My Health Record, an 'opt-out', rather than the previous 'opt-in' system.

I don’t want to end up unconscious or unable to comunicate in a hospital one day with the treating doctors not knowing anything about my codeine intolerance or other possibly important aspects of my health and medical history, which may one day arise.

I don’t want to have to write lists and keep a diary to try to remember what treatments, tests or medications I might have had and when I had them.  I know from experience that I can forget things!

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