Every time you visit a healthcare professional, hospital or other medical facility, important information about your health is created. However, this information is stored in separate files at each of these locations. Even if your health information is stored on a computer at some of these locations, many of these systems are not connected and it is hard to share your health information between your different healthcare professionals.
An eHealth record is an electronic record that contains a summary of your health information. You will have access to this summary from anywhere you want via a website. You can add your own notes to your eHealth record. You can allow healthcare professionals to view this information and to add new information to your record. This greatly increases the ease of sharing health information.
For more information on eHealth Records go to http://publiclearning.ehealth.gov.au/consumer/what-is-it/introduction/
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