Plans to link the My Aged Care central client record with the My Health Record (MyHR, formerly PCEHR) will be “ratcheted up” following the transfer of the aged care portfolio back to the federal Department of Health, an aged care bureaucrat says.

Fiona Buffinton, group manager of the access, quality and compliance group at the Department of Social Services (DSS), told the Information Technology in Aged Care (ITAC) conference this week that she, along with the rest of DSS's aged care section, are in the process of moving back to DoH and she expected to see more focus on plans to link the two systems.