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- 2017
The E-health Literacy Demands of Australia's My Health Record: A Heuristic Evaluation of UsabilityKeywords: electronic health records, health records, personal, health literacy, health communication, heuristics, consumer health information, medical informatics Abstract: My Health Record is Australia's electronic personal health record system, which was introduced in July 2012. As of August 2017, approximately 21 percent of Australia's total population was registered to use My Health Record. Internationally, usability issues have been shown to negatively influence the uptake and use of electronic health record systems, and this scenario may particularly affect people who have low e-health literacy. It is likely that usability issues are negatively affecting the uptake and use of My Health Record in Australia
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