3Object of Act

3 Object of Act

The object of this Act is to enable the establishment and operation of a national public system for the provision of access to health information relating to recipients of healthcare that is voluntary for those recipients, to: (a) help overcome the fragmentation of health information; and (b) improve the availability and quality of health information; and (c) reduce the occurrence of adverse medical events and the duplication of treatment; and (d) improve the coordination and quality of healthcare provided to healthcare recipients by different healthcare providers.