Benefits of a PCEHR
The Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) will greatly enhance both the quality and the timeliness of available healthcare information, delivering substantial benefits to you, your healthcare provider and the healthcare system as a whole.
More specific benefits of PCEHRs include:
- assisting the self-management of stable chronic diseases (for example, high blood pressure, diabetes and asthma)
- increasing communication between clinicians and individuals by using e-consultations and online services to support self-care management using broadband services and online records to share relevant health information
- reducing hospital re-admissions by making accessible timely and accurate health information essential to the better coordination of post-hospital care
- improving use of scarce resources through better quality health information, faster clinical assessments, more accurate diagnoses and referrals, and more effective treatment and prescribing of medication
- better decision making by healthcare providers and individuals through the availability of more complete, more accurate and more up-to-date health information
- better policy development as a result of the high quality data potentially available for use in research and planning.