No single organisation holds your complete health history — not the government, not your GP, not any hospital. It's split across labs, imaging clinics, specialists, portals and paper files, each holding one fragment. This is the map for collecting it back.
Use it to start downloading your own records. Then keep them somewhere that's actually yours.
Australia's government-run digital health summary. Since 2025–26 'Sharing by Default' laws, pathology and imaging providers are legally required to upload reports here — so it's more useful than it used to be. It's the first place to look, and for many people the single richest source. But it is a summary feed you view, not an archive you own — see the limits below.
One login via myGovYour regular GP practice usually holds the fullest picture of your health: every consult note, referral, prescription and result they've received over the years. There's no single national GP portal — access depends on the practice's booking software, and the richest records often need a written request under privacy law.
Varies by practice — often a written requestThree groups run most Australian pathology, and portals are shared within each group — not across them. If you've ever switched labs, your trend history is split across separate logins. Register with your name, date of birth and Medicare number.
Up to 3 separate portals + independentsMost imaging providers don't give you a lasting login. Instead they text you a one-time link about 7 days after your scan, letting you view and download images and the report. Miss it, change your number, or need an old scan, and you're back to a manual request. This is fragmentation you can feel.
One-time SMS links, many providersPublic hospital records are held by state health departments, not a national system. There's no login — you apply in writing to the specific Local Health District or hospital that treated you, usually with ID and sometimes a fee. Each state has its own form and process.
Written application, per hospital, per stateThis is the gap you flagged — and it's real. Specialists write back to your referring GP, so the letter usually sits in your GP file, not with you. Private hospitals hold their own records behind a written request. There's rarely any portal at all.
Written requests; no portalsSleep, steps, heart rate, SpO2, blood pressure and glucose live in vendor apps and clouds — completely outside the medical system. Each has its own export path, and most people never pull this data out. It's some of the most continuous data you have.
Per-vendor export, mostly self-serveYour dispensing history — what was actually filled, when — sits with pharmacies and in government claims data, separate from what your GP prescribed. Useful for building an accurate, complete medication timeline.
myGov + pharmacy appsSeveral national registers hold specific slices of your health data. All are reachable through myGov and are straightforward to download.
Mostly one myGov loginAssembling the list above is a project in itself: separate portals, one-time SMS links, written requests, ID checks and fees — just to gather what should already be one record. A national system that holds all of it, that you can view, edit and add to, is ten to twenty years away at best.
Sesqui Health is the shortcut. Download your data from the sources above, point Sesqui Health at the folder, and it reads, structures and trends everything into one private record on your own computer — including the wearable and home data no official system will ever hold.
Links go to official provider and government pages. Portals, ownership and processes change — if a link has moved, search the provider's name plus “patient results” or “access my records”. Provider groupings (Sonic, Healius, ACL) reflect shared portals at time of writing.
You have a legal right to access your own health information under the Privacy Act 1988 and state health-records laws. Providers may charge a reasonable fee and generally must respond within about 30 days. For your rights, see the OAIC guidance.
This page is general information, not legal or medical advice.