Healthcare professionals
Fact sheets | Webinars | eLearning modules | Podcasts | For your patients | Apps | Electronic Prescriptions | Further Reading
Why use My Health Record?
My Health Record can provide clinical immunology/allergy specialists and other members of a patient’s healthcare team access to additional health information to support them in caring for their patients. The accessibility of information about a patient’s serious allergies (including food and medication allergies) is an important step to improve patient safety in this area.
As well as allergy information, a patient's My Health Record might also contain:
- Immunisations
- Pathology
- Diagnostic imaging reports
- Prescription and dispensing information
- Hospital discharge summaries
Most healthcare professionals can use their computer system to upload an event summary or specialist letter to their patient’s My Health Record. Information that could be added includes test results, current allergies, management plan, allergen immunotherapy or other treatments. To learn more about the suitability of your computer system view the Conformant clinical software products.
The following resources have been developed for clinical immunology/allergy specialists and other healthcare professionals working in allergy, to support their use of My Health Record for patients with allergy.
Fact sheets
My Health Record for clinical immunology/allergy specialists
Getting started: My Health Record for private allergy practices
Event summaries: A guide for clinical immunology/allergy specialists using conformant software
Uploading specialist letters using Genie: For clinical immunology/allergy specialists
My Health Record FAQs
My Health Record FAQs for clinical immunology/allergy specialists
Use cases
These allergy scenarios have been put together to show how My Health Record could be used for patients with allergic conditions.
My Health Record use cases for clinical immunology allergy specialists
Webinars
Webinar – An overview of My Health Record for Clinical immunology/allergy specialists
On 16 June 2020 Dr Kathy Rainbird (Australian Digital Health Agency) and Dr William Smith (Clinical immunology/allergy specialist) hosted a Webinar to provide practical advice on how to register and upload to My Health Record.
You can also view the Webinar slides Webinar – An overview of My Health Record for Clinical immunology/allergy specialists
My Health Record for allergy communication - Presentation recording
On 14 November 2020 Dr William Smith (Clinical immunology/allergy specialist) and Dr Kathy Rainbird (Australian Digital Health Agency) gave a joint presentation about the benefits of My Health Record for allergy communication at the ASCIA Western Australian Immunology hybrid meeting.
Uploading allergy information to My Health Record - Presentation recording
On 31 March 2022 Dr William Smith (Clinical immunology/allergy specialist) and Dr Kathy Rainbird (Australian Digital Health Agency) gave a 30 minute presentation about how to upload allergy information to My Health Record directly from your clinical software. The webinar includes a step-through demonstration of uploading an event summary and specialist letter using Genie software. This webinar is relevant to specialists using a range of conformant clinical software products.
eLearning modules
Learn more about digital health and using My Health Record by completing these eLearning modules hosted by the Australian Digital Health Agency. Click on the topic that is of interest to you below to register and complete a course. You can complete as many courses as you like. RACP CPD Participants can earn CPD credits (1 credit per hour) in the Educational Activities, Category 1 for the time they spend on these modules
Podcasts
Hear advice from health professionals using My Health Record on how it can optimise care for patients with allergies.
Speakers: Hosted by Dr Andrew Rochford, with Dr Aaron Chambers (community GP), Maria Said (Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia), Dr Dean Tey (Paediatric Allergist and Immunologist) and Dr Charlotte Hespe (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Board).
To listen to the podcast, click on the image below.
For your patients
The National Allergy Council encourages people with an allergy (and their carers) to add information about serious and life-threatening allergies, if this information is missing in their My Health Record. We have developed the following guides in consultation with ASCIA members on the Working Group and Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia. If your practice or hospital clinical information system does not currently upload patient information into My Health Record, you can support your patients to add the information themselves by providing them with a copy of these guides.
Getting set up with My Health Record: A guide for people with an allergy and their carers. Your patients will need to take these steps to set up their My Health Record before they can add allergy information.
Getting set up with My Health Record: A guide for people with an allergy and their carers
How to add allergy information into My Health Record: A guide for people with an allergy and their carers provides step-by-step instructions to correctly enter, view and update their allergy information (if they have been confirmed not allergic). There is a section for their doctor or specialist to write the substance and reaction type, so they know the correct wording to add.
My Health Record apps
Your patients can securely view the health information in their record through the My Health App. This includes allergies, medicines, immunisations as well as COVID-19 pathology results.
You can find more information about the app by clicking on the image below.
Electronic Prescriptions
Your patients can choose to have their prescription sent to their mobile phone instead of receiving a paper prescription. They can also set up an Active Script List which lists all of their prescriptions on their mobile phone. For more information on electronic prescriptions and Active Script Lists, please click on the link below.
Electronic prescriptions | Australian Digital Health Agency
Further reading for health professionals
Digital health updates for 2022 | 8 March 2022
My Health Record ‘how to’ guides for clinical immunology/allergy specialists - 24 June 2020
My Health Record and your patients – Understanding consent, privacy and security - 7 May 2020
Connecting specialists to patient health information with My Health Record - 27 March 2020
Content updated May 2023