Advance care

Advance care documents let individuals make choices about their future medical treatment in the event that they are cognitively impaired or otherwise unable to make their preferences known. Currently, a completed directive is kept in a safe place, with a designated custodian controlling access to it. Advance care document custodian documents can be used to…

Advance Care Planning documents are included in the My Health Record system to provide increased accessibility to a consumer’s advance care planning information nationwide. Advance care planning information can include a statement by a competent person expressing decisions about his or her future care, should they become incapable of participating in…

The ACTS is a digital solution using My Health Record that facilitates access to crucial health information relating to an aged care resident to support clinical hand-over when an individual is transferred from an aged care setting to acute hospital care. The ACTS implements a number of new record types into the My Health Record system for the sharing of…

The Goals of Care clinical document type is used to capture advance care information in alignment with Western Australia’s Goals of Patient Care Summary documents. Goals of Care documents represent a sub-type of Advance Care Planning documents. Goals of Care documents can include a statement related to a person’s care in the context of a…