Disruptive technologies like the use of digital ‘MyHRC’, e-Health Record is a technological innovation in healthcare used by the healthcare providers, clinicians, nurses, administrators, insurance agencies and the patients. These healthcare innovations empower the people/patients to keep health records, manage and improve our health. For example, digital devices and technologies are used for keeping records of steps taken during the day, daily diet, medicine, sports, and overall wellbeing to improve overall health, wellbeing and knowledge.
Published in Chapter:
My Digital Healthcare Record: Innovation, Challenge, and Patient Empowerment
Anita Medhekar (Central Queensland University, Australia) and Julie Nguyen (Central Queensland University, Australia)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3274-4.ch008
Abstract
In the 21st century, the digital revolution is disrupting every sector of the economy. Australia has adopted the digital healthcare technological revolution such as My Health Record (MyHRC) to improve healthcare practice for clinicians/medical professionals and empower consumers to provide positive health management experience with a patient-centred approach to digital health revolution and digital literacy. My Health Record has its benefits, but it has been a challenge for the healthcare practitioners, hospital staff, as well as patients as consumers to accept, embrace, and uptake digital technologies and manage their healthcare records amidst concerns of slow adoption by the patient, data privacy, and implications of the secondary use of their personal data by non-government entities.