PCEHR Review report released

The federal government has released the Royle review into the PCEHR, which recommends that:

• the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record be renamed My Health Record (MyHR);
• the system move to an opt-out model starting from 1 Jan. 2015;
• NEHTA be dissolved and replaced by an Australian Commission for Electronic Health (ACeH), to report directly to the Standing Council on Health (SCoH); and
• improvements be made to clinical usability.

Health Minister Peter Dutton has stated that the government's response to the review's 38 recommendations is still several months away, but that he supports the opt-out approach recommended by the Review.