My health record and emerging cybersecurity challenges in the digital environment

The main aim of embracing evolutionary digital e-health technologies such as ‘My Health Records’ is to transform and empower the patients to control their health records, access, choose the right healthcare provider and suitable treatment, when required. It has been a challenge for the healthcare practitioners, hospital staff as well as patients to accept, embrace and adopt transformative digital e-health technologies and manage their healthcare records amidst concerns of slow adoption by the patient due to data privacy and cybersecurity issues. Australia, since COVID-19 has stressed the importance of secure online connectivity for the government, business and the consumers. It is essential that My health Record platform is cyber-safe and user-friendly so that consumers feel conformable, safe, and secure regarding their personal health records. This chapter discussed the challenges of embracing e-health digital technologies and assurance of advancing cybersecurity of online My Health Record’, which will transform e-health provision and empower patients and the healthcare providers.