My Health Record: Analysis of Electronic Health Records Implementation

This report examines the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHR) by the Headspace organization in New South Wales, Australia, focusing on mental health treatments for young people aged 12-25. It addresses the problems associated with traditional patient information sharing and the benefits of EHR, including improved efficiency, accuracy, and patient care. The report discusses the capabilities of EHR in storing and sharing patient data, reducing errors, and improving clinician decision-making. It also acknowledges the challenges of EHR adoption, such as internet access limitations, resistance to change, workflow disruptions, training requirements, and privacy concerns. The conclusion emphasizes how EHR can solve problems related to patient information sharing, ultimately enhancing the quality of healthcare provided by Headspace. The report uses supporting references to validate the findings and recommendations.

Running head: MY HEALTH RECORD
My health record
Name of the student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Executive summary
This report discusses about the major benefits of implementing Electronic Health Records. The
company involved in this report is Headspace organization. The associated country is Australia
and the state is New South Wales. The report also discusses about the problems, capabilities and
the benefits that will be provided to solve the major problems faced by the organization.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................3
Problems in adoption of EHR:.....................................................................................................3
Capabilities of EHR:....................................................................................................................4
Benefits:.......................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................5
References:......................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
Headspace organization provides mental health treatments to the people of age group 12
to 25. Among all the mental problems associated, depression and anxiety are the most. Among
the most involved citizens such as indigenous people in the age group of 16 to 24, suicidal rate in
New South Wales is increasing at a fast rate, which is becoming a concern for the organization.
This report discusses about the main problems associated with youths as the treatment
provided to them involves telling of the problem to the medical persons repeatedly, which lowers
the information is perceived by the professionals. Thus, this report discusses about the benefits
and capabilities of adopting electronic health records in the organization.
Discussion:
An electronic health record (EHR) is a systematic collection of information of patients
that are stored in a digital format (Baumann & Karel, 2013). These records can be shared among
networks or exchanges. These data may include data, demographics, medications and medical
history or test results. EHR is used to store the records of the patients. It does not require the
patient to give their information each time they see professionals. Thus the use of HER reduces
the need of checking the previous test results or records and helps in giving efficient treatment
without wasting time.
Problems in adoption of EHR:
EHR is the use of computers and devices, which requires internet access to be present.
This may cause problems in rural areas with lack of internet. Internet access can also be hindered
due to some technical problems and that may pose problems in cases of emergency.

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Patients and professionals who are consistent with the traditional approaches may not
accept the electronic standards and this may pose another problem for the organization (Nguyen,
Bellucci & Nguyen, 2014). Thus, before implementing this adoption, co-workers are to be
persuaded to implement their work through EHR.
During the first implementation of EHR, it may happen that the system might not work
properly and this can be the reason for workflow disorientation. The providers of this system are
to be told about the implementation and testing of the system before applying it publicly.
EHR implementation requires training of the professionals to adapt to the system in hand
(Jamoom et al., 2012). This requires additional resources including time and funds to be spent for
training purposes, which poses as a problem before starting up the system in the organization.
The suppliers of EHR need to educate the organization about the possible privacy
problems that may be a concern to some patients. During any disasters or breach, this
information can be lost and the organization needs to know the problems associated with this
before applying it.
Capabilities of EHR:
An EHR is electronically maintained by the provider that consists of all the clinical data
under a certain person, which includes demographics, progress reports, problems, vital signs,
medications and reports (Middleton et al., 2013). The data gathered are automatically transferred
to professionals that require them for diagnosis of the patient.
The implementation of EHR is the modern step in improving the relationship between a
patient and the clinician, which ultimately helps the organization. The accuracy of data, fast and
availability of the data enables the professionals to provide better decisions in terms and health,

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which will ultimately lead to better care (Goldzweig et al., 2015). Reducing error by increasing
accuracy, reducing the duplication of medical data are the further capabilities provided by
adopting EHR in the organization.
Benefits:
An EMR provides more advantages than paper records. The data gathered from the
patients, are stored digitally and it does not require the patients to give data each time they visit
the organization (Jensen, Jensen & Brunak, 2012). When the patient shows up again, the
previous data will be analyzed to provide fast and effective care.
The patients who are not present for a long time to get checkups can be seen from a list of
people and those patients can be contacted to remind them about the health care they need.
EHR also help in monitoring the data of the patients regarding any vaccinations or
medications and apply them in their diagnosis (Jensen, Jensen & Brunak, 2012). These factors
help to increase the efficiency and rate of care provided and thus increases the effectiveness of
the organization.
Conclusion:
Thus, it can be concluded from the report that the implementation of Electronic Health
Record can help in solving the associated problems faced by the Headspace organization. The
problems faced by the patients regarding the re-telling of information to all the physicians during
their time of checkup is solved as the patient will only be required to tell the information once
which will be presented in a digital format and that information will be passed on to every
physicians involve in providing solutions to the problem. This will increase the perceived rate of
information and will help the organization to get more patients and provide more health care.

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References:
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Goldzweig, C. L., Orshansky, G., Paige, N. M., Miake-Lye, I. M., Beroes, J. M., Ewing, B. A., &
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Jamoom, E., Beatty, P., Bercovitz, A., Woodwell, D., Palso, K., & Rechtsteiner, E.
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Nguyen, L., Bellucci, E., & Nguyen, L. T. (2014). Electronic health records implementation: an
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