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i n t e r n a t i o n a l j o u r n a l o f m e d i c a l i n f o r m a t i c s 8 3 ( 2 0 1 4 ) 201–209 j o u r na l h o m e pa ge: w w w. ijmijo u rn A pilot study on the views of elderly regional Australians of personally controlled electronic health records Paresh Kerai a, Pene Wood a,∗, Mary Martin b a School of Pharmacy and Applied Science, La Trobe University, PO Box 199, Bendigo, Australia b Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, PO Box 199, Bendigo, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Purpose: Australia introduced its version of personal health records in July 2012. Success Received 5 March 2013 of the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) relies on acceptance during Received in revised form the early stages. The main aim of this study was to investigate the views of a sample of 3 December 2013 elderly people in a non-metropolitan region in Australia on the PCEHR, and to assess their Accepted 7 December 2013 acceptance levels of this concept. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to a non-probability conve- Keywords: nience sample of respondents recruited from meetings of Probus, a community club for Electronic health records active business and professional retirees. Personally controlled electronic Results: Approximately three-quarters of the respondents had computer and Internet access health records at home. If not accessed at home