NSW E-health report

Running head: HEALTH ECONOMICS
NSW E-health report
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1HEALTH ECONOMICS
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
E-health priorities............................................................................................................................4
Discussion of findings.....................................................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

2HEALTH ECONOMICS
Executive Summary
E-health has been identified as an emerging field in recent years that involves the intersection of
public health, medical informatics, and business, in regards to health services, delivered through
the internet. In a broader sense, E-health describes a technical development and a commitment
for global and networked thinking, to improve healthcare. The report found that he NSW
Government started changing the healthcare service in 2011 for building a healthcare system that
delivers on the promise of ‘Right Care, Right Place, Right Time’. The NSW is working towards
digitalization of the healthcare system with the aim of improving patient-provider interaction,
secured sharing of electronic information, effective diagnosis of diseases, reducing medical
errors, and improving productivity.

3HEALTH ECONOMICS
Introduction
The term E-health is a recent healthcare practice option supported by electronic
communication and processes and dates back to 1999. Although the term is often
interchangeably used with health informatics, it generally refers to the practice of healthcare with
the use of internet. This umbrella term often encompasses electronic health record, clinical
decision support systems, computerised physician order entries, telemedicine, e-prescribing,
consumer health informatics, and medical research with the use of grids (Kontos et al., 2014).
NSW health has been identified to deliver world class person-centred healthcare that is digitally
enabled for all people of NSW. It takes essential steps for incorporating the latest health
technology advances and ICT infrastructure, with the aim of delivering integrated accessible and
high quality healthcare (NSW Ministry of Health, 2014). The E-health strategy of NSW
comprises of using digital technology for transforming the way it delivers healthcare to all
patients, and takes into account the recent advances, policy directions, and ongoing
enhancement, for ensuring quality safety and performance of the health system. E-health will
help in reducing staff stress, make an accessible and efficient patient record, and reduce the
indirect work (Mohr et al., 2014). Moreover the procedure is time saving and also guarantees
best outcome for patient care. This report will analyse the NSW health state plan that aims to
digitalise healthcare.