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MY HEALTH RECORDS ACT 2012 - SECT 3

Object of Act

    The object of this Act is to enable the establishment and operation of a voluntary national public system for the provision of access to health information relating to recipients of healthcare, to:

  (a)   help overcome the fragmentation of health information; and

  (b)   improve the availability and quality of health information; and

  (c)   reduce the occurrence of adverse medical events and the duplication of treatment; and

  (d)   improve the coordination and quality of healthcare provided to healthcare recipients by different healthcare providers.



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