The Government has designated 18 post offices to help members of the public to register early as eHealth users.

The Health Bureau said that the new measure aims to enable citizens to access various government health services while the Government is gradually extending the requirement of having an eHealth account to use such services starting this year.

Citizens simply need to bring their identity documents to the post office where staff will verify their identity on-site and help them to complete the registration for the account-opening process.

The Government is also planning to extend the eHealth account-opening service to more post offices in the future.

Apart from the new registration channel through post offices, citizens may also continue to make use of multiple existing channels to open eHealth accounts, including registering through the “iAM Smart” mobile application or the eHealth website, or visiting the designated centres or counters in person.

The Government will roll out the eHealth+ as announced in the 2023 Policy Address. One of the main directions is to centralise the storage of digital health records from both public and private sectors and to integrate different healthcare protocols through a personalised eHealth account for individual citizens.

Since November last year, a default consent arrangement was made in the system to register participating citizens of government-subsidised vaccination schemes with eHealth as a streamlined registration procedure.

A number of functions have been added to allow citizens to record and manage their personal health data, such as accessing records of government-subsidised vaccination schemes, making appointments at selected public clinics, and more.

At present, some 80% of Hong Kong citizens are eHealth users. The Government calls on those who have not yet registered with eHealth to take action as early as possible in order to continue enjoying various government health services.

Call the hotline at 3467 6300 for further details.