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Specifications, guidance and associated collateral applicable to all types of clinical documents.

The My Health Record allows different types of functionality including uploading of clinical documents and accessing targeted My Health Record views.

The following table describes the My Health Record functionalities and their relevance to various Healthcare sectors.

✓✓ Highly Recommended     ✓ Recommended

UploadingGP Pharmacy PathologyDiagnostic      
Imaging
Allied     
Health 
Shared Health Summary✓✓    
Event Summary✓✓  ✓✓
eHealth Prescription Record✓✓    
eHealth Dispense Record ✓✓   
eHealth Pathology Report  ✓✓  
eHealth Diagnostic Imaging Report   ✓✓ 
ViewingGPPharmacyPathologyDiagnostic     
Imaging
Allied     
Health
Health Record Overview✓✓
Medicare Overview✓✓✓✓
eHealth Pathology Report View✓✓✓✓✓✓
eHealth Diagnostic Imaging Report View✓✓✓✓✓✓
eHealth Prescription & Dispense View✓✓✓✓✓✓
eHealth Medicines View **✓✓✓✓✓✓

** The eHealth Medicines View is not a document that is uploaded by clinical information software. It can only be downloaded via the document list.

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Resources

eHealth Diagnostic Imaging Report v1.2.2

Product
EP-2560:2017
Status
Active
Version
1.2.2
eHealth diagnostic imaging reports can be used to share information about diagnostic imaging examinations via an individual's digital health record. The Diagnostic Imaging Report PDF may contain one or more examinations that are uploaded by the diagnostic imaging provider to the individual's digital health record. This specification references or contains…

eHealth Diagnostic Imaging Report View v1.1

Product
EP-2052:2015
Status
Active
Version
1.1
eHealth diagnostic imaging reports containing one or more examinations or procedures may be uploaded by the diagnostic imaging provider to an individual's digital health record as a PDF. The eHealth Diagnostic Imaging Report View provides a mechanism to list, group and sort those reports in clinical information systems. NOTE: The Conformance Test…

eHealth Dispense Record v1.2.1

Product
EP-2690:2018
Status
Active
Version
1.2.1
eHealth Dispense Record documents can be used to share information about medication dispensations via the individual’s digital health record.

eHealth Pathology Report v2.1

Product
EP-3854:2023
Status
Active
Version
2.1
eHealth Pathology Report documents can be used to share information about pathology test results via a consumer's My Health Record. Such report may contain one or more tests that are uploaded by a pathology provider to the consumer's My Health Record, and may be in a structured test results format, or a PDF format. This specification references or contains…

eHealth Pathology Report View v1.1

Product
EP-2053:2015
Status
Active
Version
1.1
eHealth pathology reports can be used to share information about pathology tests via an individual's digital health record. A pathology report PDF may contain one or more tests that are uploaded by the pathology provider to the individual's digital health record. The eHealth Pathology Report View provides a mechanism to list, group and sort those…

eHealth Prescription and Dispense View v1.2.2

Product
EP-1657:2014
Status
Active
Version
1.2.2
eHealth Prescription and Dispense View documents represent an electronic summary of information about medication prescriptions and dispensations contained in an individual’s My Health Record. NOTES The Conformance Test Specification for PCEHR Views provides conformance tests for implementing eHealth Prescription and Dispense View and is available in…

eHealth Prescription Record v1.2.1

Product
EP-2689:2018
Status
Active
Version
1.2.1
eHealth prescription record documents can be used to share information about prescribed medications via the individual’s digital health record. Documents of this type do not represent actual prescriptions, but merely support the sharing of information about medication prescriptions via the individual’s digital health record.

eSignature v1.1

Product
EP-3441:2021
Status
Active
Version
1.1
The technical mechanisms for digitally signing clinical documents are well supported by international standards. However, a digital signature alone is not always sufficient as a complete personal electronic signature mechanism. There is a range of trade-offs between the cost and complexity of implementation and use of personal electronic signatures, and the…

Event Summary v1.5

Product
EP-3419:2022
Status
Active
Version
1.5
Event Summary documents are used to capture key health information about significant healthcare events that are relevant to the ongoing care of an individual. Event Summary documents can be submitted to an individual’s digital health record by any participating organisation. For example, an Event Summary document could be submitted by an after-hours…

Health Record Overview v1.2

Product
EP-3023:2020
Status
Active
Version
1.2
Services
The Health Record Overview provides a summary of an individual’s My Health Record and is intended to serve as the “home screen” displayed when an individual’s record is first opened. The Health Record Overview can now be downloaded to clinical information systems for display in whole or part and is an enhancement to the My Health…

Information Quality Rules v1.6

Product
EP-2895:2019
Status
Active
Version
1.6
Services
The Information Quality Rules (IQ Rules) is a tool that helps developers, testers and analysts determine the quality of clinical documents including the conformance of clinical documents to the My Health Record system conformance requirements. Use of the IQ Rules commenced within the Australian Digital Health Agency (the ‘Agency’) in January…