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My Health Record is a safe and secure system that stores your health information. You can take further steps to control your privacy by limiting who has access to your record.

See Digital Health for more information about privacy and access.

Glossary of terms

access list
A list associated with an individual’s My Health Record that specifies the registered healthcare provider organisations permitted to, or blocked from, accessing an individual’s My Health Record. The access list will show the healthcare provider organisations who have previously accessed the record.
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’
nominated representative
A representative who is provided access to a My Health Record by the individual or the individual’s authorised representative. A nominated representative can view your health information. A nominated representative with read-only access is not required to provide any evidence of identity to the System Operator.

Control access to your record

See Digital Health for more information about privacy and access.

Glossary of terms

access list

healthcare provider

nominated representative

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Control access to your record

See Digital Health for more information about privacy and access.

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