Dr. Amandeep Hansra

But I think in the first instance, what we're trying to do is at least empower and enable our patients to have access to that information.

And we're not expecting them to be equipped to interpret all of that information themselves.

It shouldn't be about them having to do that on their own or us replacing clinicians with patients trying to manage their own health care.

it's about kind of supporting those better conversations.

And if we don't have access to information, at least the patient has it, like someone has it out of the two.

I don't know if you've ever had an appointment where a patient's turned up to discuss a result.

You know, you know they've had the test.

You don't have the result either.

And you're both sitting there going, I'm not sure what we're both doing here.

And, you know, we have to rebook them.

And I think what we want is at least while we're working on the provider side, can we at least have the patients owning their own results and their own information?

Well, by the 1st of July, it will be mandatory.

So it's a legislative requirement for anyone that's accessing Medicare.

So essentially we've had to use that lever because it used to be voluntary.

And obviously when things are voluntary, some people opt in, some don't.

And it's not great for the patient who happens to go to a particular pathology provider that doesn't happen to upload.

So we want all patients to have

the same access to their information.

So it will be mandatory.

There will be some tests that, you know, based on any clinical harm or safety issues over things like histopathology, we don't want patients to find out that they've got cancer sitting at home on their own.