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Australian health advice

Healthdirect Australia Ltd

Designed for iPad

    • 3.3 • 115 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Australia’s free health app helps you make informed decisions about your health.

You can use the healthdirect app to:
• check your symptoms and get advice on next steps
• find a health service when and where you need it
• look up information on a range of medicines
• search for and find trusted health information
• create an account to save your interactions and bookmark articles and medicines
• connect to My Health Record to access your digital health records, including immunisations, pathology reports and medicare items

The tools you need to manage your own health
The healthdirect app includes a Symptom Checker tool which guides you through a series of questions to help you make an informed decision about what to do next, whether it is self-care or seeing a health professional.

Australian health services, at your fingertips
The healthdirect app includes an Australia-wide directory covering a range of health services. Easily find the health service you need, when you need it, and get contact details and directions from your current location.

Trusted, Australian information
All information in the healthdirect app is sourced from Australia’s leading health organisations and has undergone a quality assurance process so people can know it is safe, appropriate and relevant for Australians. It complies with Healthdirect Australia’s Clinical Governance Framework and is backed by the governments of Australia.

Connect to My Health Record
The healthdirect app allows you to connect your My Health Record to access your digital health records. Our app provides a simple way to keep track of and view your records including pathology reports, immunisations and Medicare items. Your COVID-19 vaccination certificate and tests results will be easy to find when you need them.

A helping hand in emergencies
The healthdirect app can be used in emergency situations. It will display latitude and longitude coordinates which you can relay to emergency service operators when you don’t know exactly where you are.

Feedback
We appreciate any feedback you may have about the healthdirect app; including ways to enhance our tools to meet your health needs and your experience with the app.

Your feedback is a great way for us to know what’s important to you and gives us a focus on where we should be making our improvements.
Email us at feedback@healthdirect.org.au

Disclaimer:
Whilst this app has been reviewed for clinical accuracy, the content on healthdirect is not a substitute for professional advice and should not be used as an alternative to professional healthcare. If you have a particular medical problem, please consult your doctor or a specialist.

What’s New

Version 7.1.20

This release includes enhancements to the Service Finder tool to simplify the COVID-19 vaccine offerings.

Ratings and Reviews

3.3 out of 5
115 Ratings

115 Ratings

Allienympho ,

Needs the option for multiple symptoms

No symptoms available for low temperature, feeling cold, cold to the touch or hypothermia.

Also would be helpful to put in a few symptoms not just one. For example I’m trying to look up low temperature in a child and vomiting. All I can put in is vomiting but even if I do select another there’s only the option for one or the other.
Maybe take a look at webMD for example. Although their app etc is American it has a much better symptom checker. Would also be good to have a manikin to select areas if you aren’t sure what to type to search so can search by area.

SlowIBe ,

Used to be friendlier than now

Have used this app in the past to check conditions, and symptoms. Medications I have found extremely helpful. It has not always been the most user friendly app, as one other reviewer said you can only select one symptom at a time, when multiple need to be available. And often the simplest of layman’s words can come back with no results, even though I know they exist, I just don’t know the proper medical term, but eventually yes there is the condition and symptoms and follow-up articles which I really enjoy and find interesting to read.
But now, I can’t get past the front page because I need to make a profile page. I am not interested in connecting to My Health record as I do not have one, and I do not want one.
So instead of pushing Australians to use other sites, namely American ones, that are extremely user friendly and don’t demand profiles before giving help, up your game and permit all users the option of if they want to create a profile. It probably won’t happen, this country believes in destroying all that is good, because it’s simple. That’s how I feel and will more than likely delete this app.

Scott Macca ,

Hopeless. Cyber security hack in the making?? Password validation & myGov connector bugs

This App is hopeless. The password validation when creating doesn’t work unless you put a special character at the start of the password. Also, when trying to connect to myGov, it just gets stuck in a loop. It passes me to myGov; I successfully sign in; then it passes back to the App saying I need to authorise, which has been done in the first step

I’ve worked as a CIO for large corporations for many years, with over 25 years in the technology industry. It is obvious to me that testing is totally inadequate. For a Federal Govt entity with $300 million of income, this is totally inadequate. I shudder to think how poor your cyber security must be. Is this going to be the next data leak / hack to embarrass the medical industry?? Get it together!

App Privacy

The developer, Healthdirect Australia Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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