Digital Health Tools for LGBTIQ+ communities
There are several digital tools available to help manage your healthcare, such as:
My Health Record – an online summary of your health information. You can think of it like a digital filing cabinet that you can access anywhere you have an internet connection.
Electronic prescriptions – an option to use instead of paper prescriptions. They get sent directly to your mobile phone or email, or they can be sent straight to your pharmacy.
Telehealth – lets you have healthcare appointments by phone or video instead of in person. Telehealth can help you to talk with your GP, specialists, and other healthcare providers from home.
LHA has worked with the Australian Digital Health Agency to create resources on using digital health tools for LGBTIQ+ communities:
Written Resources |
Audio ResourcesPodcast: Joy Drive with Warren – a two part interview featuring Cat Londos, Digital Health Coordinator at LHA, discussing My Health Record for LGBTIQ+ communities. |
Important changes coming to My Health Record: What LGBTIQ+ communities need to know
Proposed changes to legislation for how pathology and diagnostic imaging results are shared on My Health Record are currently being considered.
For LGBTIQ+ communities who may have concerns about healthcare privacy and how information is shared, here's what you need to know:
What are the changes?
- Healthcare providers will soon be required to upload pathology and diagnostic imaging results to My Health Record.
- You maintain control over your health information and privacy settings.
What are my rights and options?
- You can choose not to have your results uploaded to My Health Record by asking your healthcare provider when getting any pathology tests or imaging.
- You can set up access controls to restrict which healthcare providers can see information in your record.
- You can hide sensitive documents from healthcare providers and healthcare provider organisations
- You can cancel your My Health Record registration at any time and the information in your record, including any backups, will be permanently deleted. This won’t delete the original copies of your documents, and these will still be available to the healthcare provider who uploaded them to begin with.
Find out more (Department of Health and Aged Care)