Health Assistance: Collecting, Documenting and Sharing Client Information

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a). It is very important to obtain all the required information from the client for planning an
appropriate support to them. Some of those information’s are as follows-
1. Age, name & address of the client
2. Disease or issue which the client is facing
3. Information about the medicines or treatment which client is taking currently
The ailed health professionals try to find out the actual reason for the disease or issue which is
getting faced by the client so that they can provide effective & efficient support to them.
Some of standards & legislation are there for ailed health assistants that help or guide them to
collect the appropriate information such as Standard of Practice for allied health, Council for
allied health professions (2016) according to which they are responsible for collecting the
information.
b). In order to obtain all the above information from the client, the allied health professional or
assistant may conduct a survey to them. On the other hand, allied health assistants can also
directly ask the questions related to the information they are required to gather form the clients or
patients. If in case anything is serious they can also communicate with the family members or
colleagues of the client to obtain the information.
c) In order to document these informations, two different types of ways can get used such as
documenting the information manually or documenting it on computers too. Both of these
methods will be effective or efficient in a different manner for documenting the collected
information in a safe & secure manner. By documenting in the computer the chances of loss or
theft may decrease by using some id or passwords (Holland, 2017).

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d). The best way to store this information is on computers. As discussed it will be the best &
easier way to documents the information's in a faster manner. By using the computers the
information's will get stored very appropriately. The allied health assistant will be actually
responsible for keeping these information’s entire safe & he'll also have the access to these
information so that whenever they require, they can find out the information's. With this
information, they will get various benefits for planning the different ways of providing reliable
support to the people. As same it will also contribute to providing the best healthcare services in
the required manner (Hadley, et.al, 2018).
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Current Information- This type of information refers to the meaning of information which states
the present situation or condition about the health of person or patient.
Valid Information- The information which has proved as accurate or reliable gets considered as
valid information.
Accurate Information- The information where chances of confusion or doubt take no place is
known as accurate information.
Authentic Information- The information bearing a seal or signature attesting explains that it is
official or genuine and presents the accuracy of that particular information. It is known as
authentic information (Iganski, et.al, 2018).
In order to go through with the information of the file of the client, for checking whether if it is
up to date or not, an assistant will try to look for all those files of related information's which are
documented manually. He or she will also check the entire manual file or the files that are
documented in the computer, system or any digital device with all the informations. An assistant
will try to check for all the columns that are required to be filled with the important information's