What's inside?
Important health information that you and your healthcare provider organisations have added, all in one place.
Having your health information with you throughout your life helps ensure you receive the most accurate healthcare possible.
What can be uploaded and viewed?
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.
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.
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.
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