[LINK] Can Australian electronic healthcare records be used for research?

[Tom Worthington]

On 21/6/22 23:01, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Each SARS-CoV-2 reinfection causes more severe disease
> By Neha MathurJun 20 2022  Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.
> https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220620/Each-SARS-CoV-2-reinfection-causes-more-severe-disease.aspx
> 
> ... researchers accessed the United States Department of Veterans Affairs electronic healthcare records (EHRs) to investigate how SARS-CoV-2 reinfection adds to the risk acquired after the first infection. ...

This is an example of electronic healthcare records being used for a 
public benefit. Can Australia's records be used in this way? Have they 
been set up to enable this, and is the system working at all?

I gave approval to have a national health care record, but have so far 
seen no benefit from it. When I caught COVID-19, the hospital treating 
me didn't have any of my medical records, not even what I had typed into 
their state system's COVID-19 website the day before. After I recovered, 
the federal government sent me a letter saying I was now eligible for 
another booster, even though the hospital said I should not for a few weeks.


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Tom Worthington, http://www.tomw.net.au