My Well being File gives a protected and safe place to maintain your key well being data, obtainable to you and your healthcare staff anytime, together with in an emergency. It covers your immunisation data, pathology outcomes, scans, present medicines and prescriptions, referral letters, and extra.
Each Australian now has a My Well being File except you opted out earlier than the tip of January 2019 or cancelled your report. It’s obtainable wherever you go, so that you don’t want to recollect earlier appointment dates, medication names or dosages, or carry well being paperwork equivalent to prescriptions. In case your well being scenario adjustments, healthcare suppliers can add this data to your My Well being File. You may also add an advance care planning doc to your My Well being File in case you ought to want to take action.
Your pathology studies, together with your HbA1c outcomes, may be uploaded by the pathology organisation to your report permitting you to maintain observe of the checks you’ve had and while you had them, and monitor your outcomes over time.
In case your pathology supplier uploads your HbA1c outcomes to My Well being File they might be obtainable to view as quickly as they’re uploaded, supplying you with entry similtaneously your healthcare staff. There’s no want to attend the seven day interval to entry like another pathology studies.
For extra data, together with tips on how to entry, go to the digitalhealth.gov.au web site.
Or contact the My Well being File helpline on 1300 901 001, 8am – 5pm (AEST/AEDT), Monday – Friday, or e mail [email protected].
