Healthcare providers can access information within My Health Record for the purpose of lessening or preventing a serious threat.
This helps your treating healthcare providers to deliver safer treatment and care that considers the information in your My Health Record, such as allergies, medicines and immunisations.
Access by a registered healthcare provider organisation to an individual’s My Health Record to lessen or prevent a serious threat to a person’s life, health or safety and where it is unreasonable or impracticable to obtain the individual’s consent. If a participant asserts that these circumstances exist, the access controls of the individual’s My Health Record are overridden. Emergency access can also occur where it is necessary to lessen or prevent a serious threat to public health or public safety. Emergency access expires five days after the assertion of the emergency is made.
