What's inside?

Important health information that you and your healthcare provider organisations have added, all in one place.

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You will need to have My Health Record linked to myGov to access it.

Having your health information with you throughout your life helps ensure you receive the most accurate healthcare possible.

Clinical and other documents
Medicare documents
Information you can add

Documents uploaded by your healthcare providers

Healthcare providers like doctors, pathologists, and pharmacists can upload clinical documents to your record including:

allergies, medicines, adverse reactions
care and support plans
diagnostic imaging reports
discharge summaries
e-Referrals
event summaries
goals of care documents
immunisations
pathology reports
pharmacist shared medicines lists
prescription and dispense records
shared health summaries
specialist letters
transfer and residential care facility documents.

Better and easier access to your information

Many providers are already uploading documents to your record. Changes are being proposed to require pathology and diagnostic imaging reports to be uploaded by default, unless you tell the provider not to or a valid exception applies. It will give you and your healthcare providers better access to this information. Learn more.

Information from Medicare

Your record can include certain Medicare information held by Services Australia, depending on the settings that you choose.

Medicare information can include:

Medicare Benefits Schedule or Department of Veterans' Affairs claims
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme or Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme claims
Australian Immunisation Register
Australian Organ Donor Register information.

Find out more about Medicare information in your record.

You can also get proof-of-vaccination documents from your record.

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Incorrect or missing information

It’s important that you check that all your health information is up to date and correct. Learn more about what to do if you have incorrect or missing information in your record.

Add information to your record

You can add the health information that you think is important or may want to have available in an emergency, including:

contact numbers and emergency contact details
current medicines
allergy information (including previous reactions)
personal health notes
Indigenous status
Veterans’ or Australian Defence Force status
your advance care plan or contact details of your custodian
preferred language
country of birth.

Learn how to view and update your profile details.

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Add information to a child's record

Record, monitor and manage your child's growth and development, including:

Learn about setting up your child's record.

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Incorrect or missing information

It’s important that you check that all your health information is up to date and correct. Learn more about what to do if you have incorrect or missing information in your record.