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Welcome to the second coming of My Health Record: the AusDoc interview

Why did anyone think 100 million PDFs would be a good idea?
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13 June 2025
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Peter O’Halloran.

Doctors have long asked an existential question about My Health Record. Why does it exist? What is its clinical utility?

It has now amassed 1.7 billion documents — from medication lists to radiology results to health summaries.

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