The recent ADHA Strategy failed to ask two fundamental questions: 1. What is My Health Record (MyHR) and does it have value? 2. What should or could it be? The answer to the first question has its roots in the genesis of health records – notes by doctors and hospital staff regarding a patient’s treatment. A better term would be Medical Records. MyHR is simply an incomplete summary of a patient’s medical treatment. What destroys its potential, but very limited, usefulness is that a patient is critically involved in summary data getting into the system, can impose controls over some of the documents (not the Shared and Personal Health Summaries) and can prevent specific health care institutions from accessing the record. These make it, as the government’s own website says, unreliable. Looking at the second question, and assuming any health record system should be more than just a medical treatment record, we can ask: What information is useful in determining and managing a person’s...
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