NEW figures released by the Australian Digital Health Agency have confirmed that pharmacies are currently the biggest contributors to the My Health Record system, uploading more than four million documents to the platform every month.
GPs are also playing their part with the addition of between two and three million monthly documents, and they are the highest users of the system, regularly accessing documents uploaded by other GPs and healthcare providers to inform their clinical decision-making.
The number of My Health Records containing Medicare, clinical or medicine documents has more than doubled since Jan to over 12.5 million.
The ADHA said about 90% of public hospital beds, general practices and pharmacies were now registered to use My Health Record, with around 70% uploading or viewing documents.
There are also more than six million records with immunisation information, and over 1.2 million records containing organ donor register information.
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