The digital health tools transforming health and care

Eril, at 76, is an early adopter of digital well being instruments. She has accessed My Well being File through my well being app on her telephone because it first got here out.   

The app has develop into an integral a part of her healthcare routine. Whether or not it’s making ready for an upcoming appointment, or specialist visits, Eril finds my well being app extraordinarily helpful for shortly referencing her medical historical past. Just lately, when making ready for a specialist appointment, she was requested to offer particulars about her earlier CT scan. Because of the app, she may swiftly flick by way of her information and supply the requested info immediately. 

One other of Eril’s often used digital well being instruments is digital prescriptions. Being an avid traveller, with household in Melbourne and journeys to different states, she says the comfort of getting her prescriptions on her telephone is invaluable.   

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Most Australians have a My Well being File. It homes a spread of helpful paperwork and well being info together with your medical circumstances, pathology take a look at outcomes, proof of vaccination paperwork, prescriptions, scans and hospital discharge info. It’s a non-public file and might solely be seen by you, your healthcare suppliers and anybody else you select to share it with. 

In case you don’t have already got a My Well being File, you’ll be able to register for one at any time by following a three-step course of outlined on digitalhealth.gov.au.  When that is full, you’ll be able to entry My Well being File by way of a pc or a cellular system, akin to a smartphone or a pill, with an web connection. You may as well view your file utilizing the my well being app. 

Downloading the my well being app onto your cell phone is a handy strategy to entry your My Well being File when you’re out and about. It permits you to see your key well being info, pathology outcomes, medication info and vaccination historical past out of your telephone. You possibly can obtain my well being by trying to find “my well being gov” within the Apple App Retailer or Google Play Retailer. 

An digital prescription is a digital model of a paper prescription. They’re a secure and handy various to paper prescriptions. In case you select to obtain an digital prescription, your physician will ship a textual content message or an electronic mail to your cell phone containing a hyperlink, in any other case known as a token, together with your prescription. If you find yourself prepared to gather your medicines, the QR code is scanned out of your telephone on the pharmacy. It’s a secure, safe, and handy various to paper prescriptions.  

For extra details about these digital well being instruments, please go to digitalhealth.gov.au, contact the My Well being File helpline on 1800 723 471 or electronic mail [email protected].