Melbourne, Australia
Independent · Not a clinic
An independent Australian journal of digital health
Digital DoctorExplainers on telehealth, records, medicines and the systems between Australian patients and their clinicians.
The national file
What sits in the national record, who can open it, and how hospital, pathology and imaging fragments actually reach a GP.
Seeing a flagged blood test or scan report online is now common. This guide explains how consumer access works, what reference ranges mean, why a flag is not a diagnosis, and how to sit with a worrying PDF until a clinician can interpret it.
Too many Australians leave hospital with a follow-up plan that never quite reaches the GP. This piece looks at why discharge summaries vanish, what patients can request, how My Health Record uploads help, and how to keep medicines and reviews from falling through the cracks.
Treating clinicians, emergency staff and nominated representatives can open a My Health Record under different rules. This article sets out those pathways, the access controls consumers can apply, and why the file in your GP software is not the same thing as the national record.
My Health Record is Australia's national shared health record. This guide explains what typically appears — medicines, immunisations, discharge summaries, and some pathology and imaging — what does not land automatically, and how consumers can open the record and add their own notes.