This information would take the form of event summaries, not all the notes that a health care provider may choose to keep about a consultation. With the consumer's consent, these summaries would then be able to be retrieved at any time they were needed and exchanged via a secure network with those health care providers authorised by consumers to access this information. The proposed network would define the boundaries around who has access to what information, when.
Further information is provided in an introductory document and fact sheets.
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