Investing EHR within Doctors Practice - Benefits, Challenges, and Vendor Solutions in Australia

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Investing EHR within Doctors Practice
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PART A
Investing EHR within Doctors Practice
Data collection part
Functionality of General practice of doctors in Australia
Doctors in Australia ar required to met a lot of fucntion which are based on the patients record.
According to various doctors, healthcare service provision can run smoothly with proper
recording of patients information. They believe that proper electronic healthcare system will
enable doctors with Shared Medical records system. Most of the doctors feel that in their practice
and quality service delivery to the customers there must be electronically shared records about
the patients’ records can be accessed easily at all the time (Lim, Patel, Lee, Weeks, Barber &
Watnik, 2015). The patient’s quality care delivery will be improved upon the installation of an
electronically medical shared record that can be accessed all the time by the doctors. Moreover,
doctors in Australia also confirmed that patients’ medical history is important and such
information must be shared among the doctors within a given healthcare facility for excellent
quality services.
Benefits of ERH to Doctors
Electronics healthcare records are instrumental in Australia as it provides an excellent
platform for new practicing doctors. The system enables new as well as old doctors within the
Service Centre with access to all healthcare information related to the patients. The electronic
Healthcare Records involves sharing of patients data. Moreover, the electronic records can be
used by various parties such as healthcare professionals, the health community, patients and the

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entire community at large. all these three stakeholders must threfore work hand in hand to
realize the effective implementation of healthcare regarding electronically shared data among the
concerned authority (Jung, Y., & Yoon, 2016).
There are different information that can be stored in the e-healthcare system which
includes: the referrals, laboratory tests and the patient's health record regarding drug utilization
records (). A well secured and efficient electronically shared health records or records can
significantly improve the quality of healthcare services in an organization. This can be
implemented in areas such as clinical administration and the flow of information within the
healthcare unit. It will also help with the free exchange of data just by logging into the system
and sharing some vital information such as referrals, medication history, the patient's bio-data
and information about the progress record of the patient (Ford, Menachemi, Peterson & Huerta,
2009). For this reason, the healthcare has a more significant potential to provide benefits to both
the individual groups/customers, community within Australia and the entire community at large.
The system was formerly known as the health informatics because it involved the storage
and retrieval of data stored at any required time within the specific task to be performed. The e-
health may involve different aspects of technology including the video conferencing or the
regular transfer of data within the system for quality and easy access of the information among
the doctors and other stakeholders within the healthcare system. The healthcare electronically
shared records is regarded as one of the most effective approaches to the e-health system.
However, it has some challenges which should be looked into for its full implementation ().
Challenges associated with ERH
Most of the challenges include the following: Impact of policy and economic uncertainty;
this is caused due to the political nature of the country either from the opposition or government

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depending on the new aspect of e-health to be implemented. In addition to the already identified
challenge, other challenges relating to the implementation of the electronically Health Records
include the issue of the specified and unified approach and point of transport NEHTA operation.
Likewise opt-outside model and opt-in model as well as other issues about the privacy concerns
and finally the problems on use of the new technology during its implementation in the initial
stages (Lorenzi, Kouroubali, Detmer & Bloomrosen, 2009). All these become part of the
challenges experienced in the application of the Electronically Healthcare Records in the
healthcare sector. The system is governed by different laws and ethical regulation which include
the high level of secrecy. All the patients expect that all their health records should not be shared
by any third party apart from the authorized group.
The stored data may also be lost from the stored database, and this may make the
healthcare services to forget all the essential records related to the customer. There are also other
technical challenges associated with the use of computers and technology in the healthcare
sector. These include the problem if the internet and the network and most of the system user
may be expensive to upgrade or may require expertise which sometimes might be regarded as
valuable to the healthcare sectors (Wallace & Iyer, 2017). Some of the hospitals or healthcare
sectors may lack specialized clinical officers in the industry to cope with the new technologies
within the healthcare sector. Finally, the reliability of the system is not guaranteed. Some
patients may be in more than one location, and this may be not easy to keep the records and
provide adequate information on the patient. The system may also have a problem with the
backup more so when there is a loss of data or loss of data due to the power interrupt.
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