eHealth

Digital Health Services is focused on advancing health care delivery by developing and implementing digital solutions and services for healthcare providers through securely storing, sharing and transmitting important patient health care information online.

Digital Health Services provides:

• easy, fast and secure access to reliable and comprehensive information
• essential systems necessary for providing patient-centric care in an environment involving multiple public and private providers
• support that is essential to overcoming difficulties of distance and to improving health outcomes for a highly mobile population with high health needs.

Digital Health Services works closely with its key eHealth collaboration partners, the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) and the Northern Territory (NT) PHN.

Digital Health Services provides support for the My eHealth Record (NT) and the national My Health Record system for NT Health staff. You can read more about the national My Health Record system by selecting the link under eHealth above.

My eHealth Record NT

The My eHealth Record (NT) is the secure shared electronic record that has been used by healthcare providers in the NT since 2005.

My eHealth Record (NT) can only be managed through a participating healthcare provider in the Northern Territory, Kimberley Region of Western Australia and northern South Australia.