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Running head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
System Analysis and Design
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1SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
1. Problem Description........................................................................................................2
2. System Capabilities.........................................................................................................3
3. Benefits............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................5
References............................................................................................................................6

2SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Introduction
The “My Health Record” System is an electronic system of storing the health information
of patients. All Australians can use this system. This project is led by the Commonwealth
Government of Australia with an aim of developing a system that will provide a secure online
summary of a patient’s health information. The system is expected to be integrated with the
existing local and clinical systems. My Health Record system aims at revolutionizing the way of
providing medical services to the patients. This reform will critically address the escalating costs
of the healthcare and reduce the cases of hospital admissions. The patients, who register with the
system, will be able to control who is allowed to access their health records. This will provide
the much needed security to the existing system. The problems, capabilities and the benefits of
the system to be implemented are elaborated in the following section (Jamoom et al., 2013).
1. Problem Description
The reform in the process of providing healthcare services to the patients is much needed
as physicians have been facing lot of problems in accessing the manual records. Thus the
physicians are left with very little information about the patient’s medical history. There are
certain problems associated with the manual record keeping of the medical health records of the
patients. The major problems are discussed below-
1. One of the major disadvantages of paper based storage system over electronic record
keeping system is that the paper based records take up a lot of physical storage space in
comparison to the digital record keeping system. The proposed “My Health Record”
system is expected to eliminate this problem (Weiskopf & Weng, 2013).