There are a lot of benefits to introduce an electronic health records system, but most importantly it would make the management of health records of 21st century level.

Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the government would soon introduce the e-health records, which would be personally managed by patients. For now, the system is on the papers and has been sent in to the parliament for approval, which they think would get a green signal soon.

There was lot of hassles in maintaining patients' health records as they were fragmented. Due to which, doctors sometimes have to get tests redone. And, other time further records gets misplaced which forced doctors to start treatment from scratch.

All this fuss led to unnecessary delays, increasing costs and needless retests. This electronic health record system would not set at one place but it would be a step taken for whole nation.

Hospital records revealed between 9% to 17% tests are redone without any purpose and 18% are redone as there were medical errors in previous reports. If all of them are put together then they act as liability on nation's economy.

This new e-health record facility would be introduced next year on 1 July. It is estimated that this new health record would help to save $11.5 billion by 2025.

Once registered with an e-health record, patients would have private control over it and without his permission; no one would be able to operate its health record system. This system has a feature where patient could not only have choice to let others operate his system or not, but it also gives him liberty to decide where to put a stop for others.

Beyond this stop, other person would not be able to access patient's medical records which means there would be no botheration of maintaining privacy to prevent privacy breach.