Despite the Australian Government’s substantial investment in the development and rollout of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR), the health sector and public have not embraced this significant e‐health initiative.
This brief first considers why the PCEHR system was selected and its potential value to the broader Australian health system. It then provides an overview of the PCEHR’s activities, progress, and governance as well as the PCEHR review and the government response that announced the rebranding to My Health Record. And lastly, it concludes by considering three key and ongoing implementation concerns, which should be addressed to successfully implement a consumer controlled electronic health record.