Create a Shared Health Summary

Create a Shared Health Summary and upload it to My Health Record.

About this task

The author listed on the Shared Health Summary depends on your role.
Table 1. Author of Shared Health Summary by Role
Author on My Health Record Role
General Medical Practitioner
  • GP
  • LeadGP
  • MdGp
Nurse Practitioner
  • NurseCP
  • NurseTR
Specialist Physicians nfd (not further defined)
  • Specialist
Health Therapy Professionals nfd (not further defined)
  • AlliedHealthPractitioner
  • All custom roles that meet the My Health Record access requirements. For more information, see practioner access.

Procedure

To create and upload a Shared Health Summary:
  1. Open the patient's clinical record.
  2. In the Health Summary iconHealth Summary, click My Health Record icon in Health SummaryMy Health Record.
  3. In the My Health Record panel, to create a new Shared Health Summary, click Create.
    Shared Health Summary example
  4. Information from the patient's clinical record is listed. Select information you want to include or deselect information you want to exclude. To deselect all options in a section, click None Supplied .
  5. Read the three statements at the bottom of the panel.
  6. To view the Shared Health Summary before sending or uploading it, click Preview.
  7. Click Upload.
  8. Alternatively, to send the health summary to a recipient, click Send as SMD.
    In the Send as SMD section:
    1. Enter a recipient and location.
    2. Click Send & Upload to send to the recipient and upload the Shared Health Summary to My Health Record or Send to just upload the Shared Health Summary.

Results

The new Shared Health Summary is added to the list on the View panel and is displayed in the Actions section with a status: Upload Successful, Failed or Delivered.
Actions section with status example
When the consult is complete, the Shared Health Summary moves from the Actions section to the Patient Timeline.
Patient Timeline showing Shared Health Summary

What to do next

A read-only copy of the health summary can be opened from either Actions or Patient Timeline iconPatient Timeline.