'Better than nothing': A GP early adopter reflects on six years of My Health Record
Dr David Guest was there at the beginning
31st May 2018
Six years ago, Dr David Guest was one of only a handful of GPs uploading shared health summaries to My Health Record in the hope that it would improve communication and patient care.
This was in April 2012, when a man called Donald Trump was no more than the bizarrely quiffed host of a TV reality show called The Apprentice.
Fate has changed his life since then, but has My Health Record done the same thing for patients and GPs?
For Dr Guest, a GP in Lismore in rural NSW, it’s better to have the online record system than no system