An advance care planning document details your future medical care preferences. It provides guidance to your family, close friends and healthcare providers if you can no longer speak for yourself or make your own decisions.
Glossary of terms
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advance care planning documents
A document that is a type of written statement regarding a person’s wishes for their future medical or healthcare treatment and may formally appoint a substitute decision-maker. Advance care planning documents detail your future medical care preferences. It provides guidance to your family, close friends and medical professionals if you are unable to communicate due to illness or injury. Advance care planning documents (and goals of care documents) can be uploaded to and stored on your My Health Record by a healthcare provider with your consent. Also refer to Goals of Care document.
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advance care document custodian
The custodian of an individual’s advance care directive. An individual can add the names and contact details of who they have shared their advance care planning documents with on their My Health Record, and doctors will be able to contact the custodian should the need arise.
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My Health Record
The record of information created and maintained by the System Operator in relation to the individual, and information that can be obtained by means of that record, including the following:
• information that relates to the individual in the record relating to the individual’s registration;
• health information connected in the My Health Record system to the individual, including information included in a record accessible through the index service;
• other information connected in the My Health Record system to the individual, such as information relating to auditing access to the record; and
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healthcare provider
A person who is involved in or associated with healthcare delivery. For the purposes of the My Health Record system, a healthcare provider is a person who has an HPI-I and is authorised by a registered healthcare provider organisation to access the My Health Record system on their behalf.
Note: this was previously referred to as ‘individual healthcare provider’
