The important summary of your health record is securely stored in one place electronically. This enables multidisciplinary healthcare professionals across Singapore to work together to provide better care for you.

For example, your doctor would be able to access your health record and work with your specialist or therapist to develop a holistic care plan for you.

With a better understanding of your healthcare history through the NEHR, your doctor will be able to deliver more effective care and help you achieve improved health outcomes by making better-informed diagnoses and decisions for the best course of treatment to improve your health.

With the NEHR, doctors will be able to view medication prescribed, medication allergies, diagnoses, and investigation results to deliver safer care. This is useful in cases where you or your caregiver is unable to recall the names of medication prescribed or diagnoses by other doctors, or may be unable to speak (eg. loss of voice, unconscious). This could avoid unnecessary adverse drug reactions. In a medical emergency, access to critical information on the NEHR could save your life or your loved ones.

If you need to transit to a different health setting, for example, from a GP clinic to a hospital, or from a hospital to a nursing home, the NEHR helps you to move seamlessly across providers. This will mean greater convenience for you, saving you time and money by minimising duplication of tests and investigations.