15 June 2026

My Health Record Sharing-by-Default Starts 1 July 2026: What It Means for Your Practice

From 1 July 2026, pathology and diagnostic imaging providers must upload reports to My Health Record (MyHR) by default. The reform is part of the Government’s “Better and Faster Access to health information” program, and it changes both what flows into MyHR and how quickly patients can see it. For GPs, this means more results available faster, a shorter delay on sensitive results, and a new compliance dimension for any practice that operates its own pathology collection or imaging service.

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Assignment of Benefit Changes from 1 July 2026: What Every GP Practice Should Set Up

From 1 July 2026, the way practices collect a patient’s assignment of Medicare benefit (AoB) for bulk-billed and simplified-billing services changes substantially. Paper-based, in-consultation co-signing is replaced by digital consent options, the practitioner co-signature requirement is removed, and a new two-year record-retention rule applies. This article sets out what every GP and practice manager needs to have in place before the deadline.

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