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Personal Medical Records
Every time you visit your doctor, hospital, or other healthcare provider, staff at that centre will make a record of your visit. This information is then compiled into what is known as your medical, or health, record and the information is used by doctors, nurses, and other medical staff in that particular healthcare or medical centre to ensure you receive quality healthcare.
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Reviewed November 2010
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| Title: | Use of electronic health records to support smoking cessation |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In many countries a large investment is being made in technology to computerize patient medical records. One potential of electronic health records (EHR) is that they could be used to remind clinicians to record tobacco use, to give brief advice to qui... |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Australian Childhood Immunisation Register (ACIR) |
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| Publisher: | Medicare Australia |
| Description: | The Australian Childhood Immunisation Register is a national register administered by Medicare that records vaccination details for children under 7 years of age who live in Australia. |
| Date: | Nov 2010 |
| Title: | Child personal health record |
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| Publisher: | NSW Department of Health |
| Description: | The May 2008 version (reprinted 2009) of the NSW Child Personal Health Record (PHR) incorporates a number of changes which were identified through a process of clinician and parent review. The printed version, distributed at birth to each baby born in NSW, includes the Parent Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) in each health check from 6 months. The PEDS does not appear in the electronic version. |
| Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Title: | My health record mental health pilot project evaluation report summary and distribution protocol |
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| Publisher: | NSW Department of Health |
| Description: | This publication summarises the implementation process and evaluation results of the pilot project to examine usage of My Health Record with mental health service customers. Copies of the protocols to support the distribution of My Health are also included. |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Facilitating best practice pathology utilisation by the use of hand-held decision support devices |
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| Publisher: | Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Acute Care Division |
| Description: | This project has successfully developed and implemented an electronic pathology decision support system (Path-Pilot) that provides medical staff with the facility to view and request pathology tests using wireless-enabled personal digital assistants. |
| Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Title: | The regulation of health information privacy in Australia |
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| Publisher: | National Health and Medical Research Council |
| Description: | This paper describes the various privacy provisions relevant to health information and, in places, includes analysis of or comment on those provisions. |
| Date: | Jan 2004 |
| Title: | Minimum guidelines for health registers for statistical and research purposes |
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| Publisher: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
| Description: | This paper responds to a need identified by the National Health Information Management Group (NHIMG) for a set of guidelines on the establishment, maintenance and coordination of health registers. |
| Date: | Sep 2001 |
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