Introduction On 17 January 2018, 18 people gathered at Friends’ Meeting House in Manchester and began a three-day “citizens’ jury”. The task for these citizens was to tackle a set of jury questions. The questions were designed to test a number of scenarios where patient data could be shared. In each case, the participants were...

This FlagPost was originally published on 24 July 2018. It has since been amended to reference the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 relevant to the release of health information by private medical practitioners. As an adjunct task, it has also been updated to reflect developments since its original publication.

This paper has been developed to educate people living with HIV, sex workers and people who use and inject drugs about the advantages/disadvantages of the electronic medical record system, My Health Record (MHR).

Unless you take action to remove yourself from the My Health Record (MHR) system, the federal government will make a digital copy of your medical record, store it centrally, and, as the default, provide numerous people with access to it.

The My Health Record (MHR) system promises to make Australia a leader in providing citizens with access to their own health records.