My Health Record: A Vision Document

The assignment discusses the My Health Record project, an online summary of health information for Australian citizens. The report features a vision document that includes problem, capabilities, and benefits of the system. It also explores the role of information systems in healthcare and their significance in managing patient data.

Running head: MY HEALTH RECORD
My Health Record
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Vision Document.......................................................................................................................2
Problem..................................................................................................................................2
Capabilities.............................................................................................................................3
Benefits..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Information system is a specific type of organized system that is solely utilized for the
purpose of communication, storing, managing and collecting information. The several
operations of data can be easily with the help of the information system (Bajdor & Grabara,
2014). My Health Record is one such information system that is going to start by the
Commonwealth Government of Australia. It would be launched for storing the information of
patients in all over Australia.
This report features a particular vision document of the project of My Health Record.
The responsibility of making a vision document is given to the business analyst of the project.
This vision document comprises of problem, capabilities and benefits or advantages of the
project.
Vision Document
Problem
The Commonwealth Australian Government is going to launch an information system
for each and every citizen of Australia. They have decided to name this information system as
My Health Record (Wu et al., 2013). It is an online summary of health information and is
extremely safe and secured. The patients of Australia could easily fetch their information
from all the previously existing health records and do not have to repeat the entire process
over and over. The hospitals or the health experts do not have to depend on the manual
information system regarding their patients. The most requirement of My Health Record is
that it would be continuing the processes for reforming as well as driving the system
efficiencies in health industry (Nazi, 2013). The main problem in hospitals or health care

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centres is the huge expenses that are incurred in the process. The patients do not have to take
admission in the hospitals and they could easily manage as well restrict their data entry.
Capabilities
My Health Record has various significant capabilities within it. Due to these
capabilities, the citizens of Australia would be enjoying important benefits regarding their
health information (Arvidsson, Holmström & Lyytinen, 2014). They will never tell their
health problems over and over and once they will tell it would be stored within the system.
The first and the foremost capability of My Health Record is that it will be an extremely safe
and secured system. Since, the information is related to health, the security of this system is
highly required. The second important capability of the My Health Record is that once the
details are being told for the first time, it would be solely stored within the system. The third
significant capability of the information system would be that the hospitals and the health
experts could easily utilize the information whenever required. The next capability of the
information system is that there would not be existing any type of manual data entry (Demir
& Krajewski, 2013). My Health Record would also do the data filtration. This eventually
means that when any particular patient would die or not be needing any type of medical
assistant, his data would be removed automatically. This would also be the combination of
database and information and communication system. However, this system would not be at
all complex and everybody could be utilized by all.
Benefits
My Health Record is the particular type of information system that would be launched
by the Commonwealth Australian Government. There are several significant benefits or
advantages of this information system (Nazi, 2013). They are given below:

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i) Managing Information: The first and the foremost benefit of this information
system would be that it helps to manage and control the bulk data or information easily
regarding patients of Australia.
ii) Inexpensive: Another significant advantage of the My Health Record would be the
cost effectiveness. It does not incur huge cost.
iii) Easy to Implement: The entire procedure of implementing the My Health Record
would be very easier (Laudon & Laudon, 2016).
iv) Data Centrality: The fourth benefit of this system would be that the access to the
data through the information system is centralized and thus data searching is very easy.
v) Automatic Data Handling: The data handling is done automatically and does not
require manual assistance.
Conclusion
Therefore, from the above report it is concluded that, information system is any
particular system used for storing and manipulating the data of any particular organization. It
is considered as one of the most secured methods of securing data or information. The
Commonwealth Government of Australia has decided to launch a secured online information
system for all citizens. The most significant benefit of the particular information is that it will
be storing all types of health details about the patients. They have decided to name this
system as My Health Record. For launching this project, the business analyst is supposed to
create a vision document that would contain the problem, capability and benefit of the
project. This particular report has given a clear demonstration of a vision document of the My
Health Record project.

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References
Arvidsson, V., Holmström, J., & Lyytinen, K. (2014). Information systems use as strategy
practice: A multi-dimensional view of strategic information system implementation
and use. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 23(1), 45-61.
Bajdor, P., & Grabara, I. (2014). The Role of Information System Flows in Fulfilling
Customers’ Individual Orders. Journal of Studies in Social Sciences, 7(2).
Demir, I., & Krajewski, W. F. (2013). Towards an integrated flood information system:
centralized data access, analysis, and visualization. Environmental Modelling &
Software, 50, 77-84.
Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P. (2016). Management information system. Pearson Education
India.
Nazi, K. M. (2013). The personal health record paradox: health care professionals’
perspectives and the information ecology of personal health record systems in
organizational and clinical settings. Journal of medical Internet research, 15(4).
Wu, A. W., Kharrazi, H., Boulware, L. E., & Snyder, C. F. (2013). Measure once, cut twice
—adding patient-reported outcome measures to the electronic health record for
comparative effectiveness research. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 66(8), S12-S20.