My Health med record push
November 6, 2015
Up to 230,000 hospitalisations in
Australia annually are attributed to
medication misadventure, many of
which may be avoidable, Medicines
Australia (MA) has asserted in
its submission to the federal
government on the proposed My
Health Record.
MA is calling for patient
medication records to be a
mandatory inclusion in eHealth
profiles to improve the safe use of
medicines by better data collation,
coordination and records access via
the My Health Record system.
The submission from the peak
industry body says, “Optimising
My Health Record to improve
the recording, sharing and
management of prescribed (and
non-prescribed) medication will
enable better monitoring of
patients’ medication management
through the primary care, hospital,
aged care and pharmacy settings.
“This will in turn reduce
duplication, missed or
inappropriate prescribing and
dispensing, overuse, misuse and
abuse of medications.”
The submission supported the
proposed Bill and reinforced the
value of the “op-out” design saying
it will enable My Health Record to
provide better, more useful and
usable information to healthcare
practitioners, which will in turn
lead to improved whole-of-care for
patients.
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