The government has recently released a report of the Review of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) on the Department of Health website. The PCEHR was launched in July 2012, but has not had a strong uptake. The review, to which the AMA provided a submission, sought to investigate, among other things, the barriers to implementation, uptake and clinical use of the e-health record.

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