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HIC 2018: Health information peak bodies get behind My Health Record opt-out

31 July 2018
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By Kate McDonald

Australia's three peak digital health and health information organisations have come out in support of sharing information through the My Health Record and the government’s decision to make it an opt-out system.

As debate continues on the privacy provisions of the legislation underpinning the system in the three-month opt-out period, the Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA), the Australasian College of Health Informatics (ACHI) and the Health Information Management Australia Association (HIMAA) have issued a joint statement in support of the MyHR, saying the sharing of patient information is in everyone’s interest and the conversation should be about how to ensure better patient care.

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