With The MyHR Almost Five Years Old. Why Do We Still Not Have Any Idea If It Is Making A Positive Difference?

I thought I would have a look at the available statistics.

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My Health Record Statistics – at 11 June 2017

Published 11 June 2017

Over 4.9 million people have a My Health Record, with an average of 1 new record being created every 38 seconds.
Over 10,358,836 prescription and dispense records have been uploaded.
Over 10,035 healthcare providers are connected, including GPs, hospitals, pharmacies, aged care residential services, allied health.
Over 2 million clinical documents uploaded.

Dashboard display of My Health Record statistics

This page contains My Health Record statistics to 11 June 2017 .

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Individual registrations

4,909,983 individual registrations

• Of those registered, 54% are female and 46% are male.
• Approximately 20% of Australia's total population is registered.

Age breakdown

The percentage of consumers registered for a My Health Record in a specific age bracket.

Age range (years)	Percentage (%)
20 or less	36%
20 to 39	25%
40 to 64	25%
65 or higher	14%

State breakdown

The percentage of those consumers currently registered for a My Health Record in relation to the total population of each State and Territory.

State	Percentage of state population (%)
Australian Capital Territory	24%
Tasmania	20%
South Australia	18%
Northern Territory	20%
New South Wales	21%
Victoria	16%
Queensland	27%
Western Australia	16%

Healthcare provider registrations

10,035 Healthcare provider registrations

Organisations registered

Total healthcare providers, broken down into common groups that are registered in the My Health Record system.

Organisation Type	Count
General practices	6,099
Public hospital organisations (there may be more than one facility within an organisation)	760
Private hospital organisations (there may be more than one facility within an organisation)	161
Retail pharmacies	1,334
Aged care residential services	166
Other categories of health care providers including allied health	1,251
Organisations with a cancelled registration	264
Total	10.035

My Health Record Usage

Clinical Document Uploads

Total number of clinical documents uploaded to the My Health Record system by healthcare providers.

Document Type	Count
Shared health summary	861,035
Discharge summary	999,509
Event summary	267,532
Specialist letter	48,226
eReferral note	29
Pathology report	61,998
Diagnostic Imaging Report	50,607
Total	2,288,936

Prescription and Dispense Uploads

Total number of prescription and dispense records uploaded to the My Health Record system by healthcare providers and pharmacists.

Document Type	Count
Prescription documents	8,051,819
Dispense documents	2,307,017
Total	10,358,836

Consumer Documents

Document Type	Count
Consumer Entered Health Summary	85,768
Consumer Entered Notes	36,878
Advance Care Directive Custodian Report	13,479
Advance Care Planning Document	1,071
Total	137,196

Medicare Documents

Document Type	Count
Australian Immunisation Register	1,349,381
Australian Organ Donor Register	475,575
Medicare/DVA Benefits Report	295,373,315
Pharmaceutical Benefits Report	204,426,939
Total	501,625,210

Here is the link where you can see the page:

https://myhealthrecord.gov.au/internet/mhr/publishing.nsf/Content/news-002

So what do we see here:

Well first the Government has basically created a great big duplicate database of MBS and PBS records (a little over half a billion of them!) I wonder why rather than just making them accessible?

Second of the 5 million who are registered on the system only 85,000 people (1.7%) have actually added any of their information.

Third – assuming a total cost so far of $1.5 Billion (smallest estimate) - we are have paid $17,647.00 to capture and store each of these records

Fourth it is obvious that Advanced Care documents and the like are a huge hit with the public NOT!

Fifth we have only 0.4% of the documents being something other than PBS / MBS records.

Sixth the Government sees fit to provide NO data on actual access and use of Shared Health Summaries by other than the creators – who have been bribed / paid to place them in the system.

Seventh there has yet to be even one non-anecdotal report of clinical benefit arising from the myHR.

It is clear that after five years the myHR is an expensive and ignored disaster. I wonder what the next five years hold?

A value for money audit is desperately needed.

David