Blooclu vs My Health Record

My Health Record is the Australian Government's national digital health record. Almost every Australian who hasn't opted out has one, and by February 2026 it held more than 24.8 million records and over 2 billion documents, most of them uploaded by hospitals, pathology labs, pharmacies, and GPs.

Blooclu is a different kind of health record: one a patient owns and controls directly. Patients can write into it themselves, in their own words, and clinicians can add to it too. When a clinician adds clinical detail, Blooclu automatically generates a plain-language summary the patient can actually read and act on, not just file away. Patients can also share their record securely with family and carers through Care Circle, so the people helping with their care get updates in language they don't have to decode.

My Health Record and Blooclu aren't doing the same job. My Health Record is the official archive. Blooclu is the version a patient can actually use, understand, and hand to whoever needs it next, whether that's a new specialist or a family member trying to keep up.

Where My Health Record earns its place is provider-to-provider communication at scale. Pathology results, imaging reports, discharge summaries, and prescriptions land there automatically once a provider is connected, and for the providers most plugged in already, GPs, pharmacies, and public hospitals, it works about as well as it was designed to. Ninety-nine percent of GPs and pharmacies are registered and actively using it, and public hospitals sit close behind. That's a real achievement in national infrastructure, and nobody needs to rebuild it.

The Australian Digital Health Agency's own February 2026 figures also show where the gaps sit. Specialists, the clinicians most likely to see a patient for the first time with no shared history, are one of the least engaged groups in the entire system: 71 percent are registered, but only 42 percent have ever actually used My Health Record. Aged care is worse again, at 55 percent registered and just 18 percent active use. In practice, that means a specialist appointment can easily happen with none of a patient's My Health Record history in the room, leaving the patient's own memory as the only backup. And of the more than 2 billion documents in the system, patients themselves have authored about 0.03 percent of them. What's there was built by institutions, for institutions to read.

This is exactly the gap Blooclu's Personal Appointment Log is built to close. A patient can describe any appointment with any provider, in their own words, whether or not that provider has ever touched My Health Record. That portable history is what a specialist actually gets on day one, instead of a blank slate. Healthcare professionals using Blooclu can also create custom pre-visit screening forms, letting a patient describe symptoms, changes, or new medications before the appointment even starts, so the visit begins with real detail instead of a guess or paperwork in the waiting room.

Blooclu's Care Circle puts that same ownership to work the moment a record needs to be shared. My Health Record lets a patient decide who can access their record, but what they're granting access to still reads like a clinical archive, written for other clinicians rather than for a partner or an adult child trying to keep up. Care Circle sends plain-language updates straight to the specific people doing the caring instead. A daughter coordinating her father's specialist appointments, a partner managing a new diagnosis together, a carer who needs to know what changed this week, all of them get an update they can act on immediately, not a portal login they have to decode first.

None of this replaces My Health Record, and it was never meant to. The pathology results, the prescription history, and the discharge summaries still belong there, and a Blooclu account doesn't ask anyone to duplicate them. What Blooclu adds is ownership: a record that a patient and their clinicians both write into, in language the patient can actually understand, that travels with them into a specialist's office that's never logged into My Health Record, and that can be shared with the people looking after them without anyone needing to translate it first.

You can set up a free Blooclu account at blooclu.app/register and start keeping your own version of your health record alongside the one the government already keeps for you. If you're a GP, specialist, or allied health provider, you can set up your account at the same address, or request a demo first to see how it fits into the care you're already providing.