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Goodbye PCEHR, hello My Health Record David Rowley (/author/david-rowley) 16 November 2015

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THE Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) will officially be rebranded as My Health Record, following the Senate’s passing of the eHealth bill with Labor and Greens support late last week.

It will also mean the opt-out eHealth trials in northern Queensland and the Nepean and Blue Mountains in NSW, foreshadowed by Health Minister Sussan Ley two weeks ago, will definitely go ahead early next year.

Under the newly passed Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Bill 2015, if the regional opt-out trials are successful, they will be rolled out nationally, probably in 2017.

And while there is change under way, the much-troubled system continues to attract criticism in several reports released this month that focus on its low uptake, privacy and inter-operability issues.

However, some of the privacy complaints may be addressed by new civil and criminal penalties which will now apply to anyone found intentionally using or disclosing healthcare identifier information.

Civil penalties of up to $108,000 for individuals and $540,000 for companies will apply while the criminal penalty will be a two-year jail term maximum and/or a fine of $21,600 for individuals or $108,000 for companies.

The eHealth legislation had previously been the subject of a short Senate committee inquiry that drew on submissions from 12 organisations including the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the RACGP, the AMA and the health department.

The OAIC had submitted there were privacy concerns and the committee recommended the health department take these into consideration.

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Highlighting the fraught move to an IT-centric system, a new report of 87 Australian GPs, published in the BMJ publication Quality & Safety, found 90 incidents involving IT which had an impact on care, including patient harm and “near-miss events”.

But the co-author of the information technology in general practice report, Professor Michael Kidd, executive dean of nursing and health sciences at Flinders University, believes the system can learn from past mistakes.

“We have a new approach to electronic health records in Australia, and I think we need to give that a fair go,” he says.

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Author: David Rowley David has worked at The Australian, the (now defunct) Daily Mirror and Australian Association Press. He has written for The Observer (UK), The Sydney Morning Herald and been a correspondent for publications such as Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter.

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