University Report: My Health Record - Vision Document Analysis

This report presents a vision document for the 'My Health Record' system launched by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. The system is designed as a secure online summary of patients' health information, integrating with existing clinic systems. The report outlines the problem addressed by the system, which includes inefficiencies in healthcare and rising costs, and the capabilities of the system, such as secure data storage, easy accessibility for healthcare professionals, and patient control over their data. The benefits discussed include improved information management, cost-effectiveness, ease of implementation, automatic data modification, and independent patient data management. The report concludes that the 'My Health Record' system aims to reduce the workload of healthcare professionals and improve healthcare efficiency. The report also includes references to support the analysis.

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..................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The Commonwealth Government of Australia would be launching a secured online
summary of the health information of a human being. The name of this information system is
“My Health Record” (Laudon & Laudon, 2016). It is basically an electronic summary of the
information regarding the major health problems of any person that were drawn from all the
existing records and was also designed for the integration in the existing systems of local
clinics.
The following report demonstrates a vision document for the project of “My Health
Record” that is being launched by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. The vision
document has clearly mentioned about the problem statement, capabilities and the proper
benefits of the information system.
Vision Document
Problem
“My Health Record” is a typical system that is to be launched by the Commonwealth
Government of Australia. It is a secured online summary of the health information of all the
patients (Nazi, 2013). This particular information system would be available to each
Australian and the information is to be drawn from previously existing records. The main
requirement of this system is for the Health industry for continuing a specific process to
reform and to properly drive the efficiencies within the system of health care. Furthermore, it
would be incrementing the quality of the patient’s health and thus help in reducing the
various issues that are faced in the hospitals for the lack of information regarding patients
(Arvidsson, Holmström & Lyytinen, 2014). The best example of this issue is the reduction of
the rates of hospital admissions for the problems with significant medication. This particular

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type of reform is extremely critical for addressing the rising expenses of the healthcare
centres that are becoming unsustainable from medium to long term (Demir & Krajewski,
2013). The individuals would be controlling the entry of data and would be restricting the
access of those data.
Capabilities
The project of “My Health Record” would be having several capabilities. These
capabilities would be helping the Commonwealth Government of Australia. These
capabilities are the major and most significant part of the system (Woods et al., 2013). The
patients do not have to repeat their problems here and thus there is a high chance that this
particular information system of “My Health Record” would be a major success for the
Commonwealth Government of Australia. The most important capability of this information
system is that it would be the most secured online summary of the health details of any
individual. This particular information system would be storing the information of the
patients as soon as they are being told in the very first time (Wu et al., 2013). This system of
“My Health Record” would not be extremely complex and thus there is a high chance that all
the hospitals, health centres, doctors, nurses as well as all the health care professionals would
be able to utilize this system easily and promptly. Moreover, the other capability of this
particular system is that data would not to be entered into the system continuously. Once, the
data is entered into the system, automatically the data would be stored within the system of
“My Health Record”. This again would be restricting the manual entry of bulk data within a
system (Nazi, 2013). The fourth capability of this particular system of information is that it
would be helping to store, collect, organize as well as filtering the data. This means, if a
patient has come after 20 years of his treatment, he would not have to repeat his medical
history with the hospitals or health care experts. They would be knowing the details prior to
that. This particular information system of “My Health Record” is the perfect integration of

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information and communications technology or ICT and medical field. The fifth capability of
this particular information system is that the information or the data would be easily retrieved
from the system, whenever it is required (Woods et al., 2013). The sixth capability of this
information system would be each and every person would be able to track his own medical
history and would not have to be dependent on any medical expert or hospitals.
Benefits
This particular information system of “My Health Record” has various benefits as
well. These benefits would be making the system a huge success (Wu et al., 2013). The major
benefits of this system of “My Health Record” are as follows:
i) Information Management: This is the most important advantage of “My Health
Record” information system. The entire and the complete operations of information like
retrieval, storing, organizing and the management of information regarding patients could be
easily done with this system.
ii) Cost Effective: This is the second important benefit of “My Health Record” (Demir
& Krajewski, 2013). It would be extremely cost effective and could be easily afforded by all
individuals.
iii) Easy Implementation: This is the third major benefit of “My Health Record”. It
would be extremely easy to implement and thus could be easily implemented by all.
iv) Auto Modification of Information: The automatic modification of information is
the other benefit of this information system (Laudon & Laudon, 2015). Manual involvement
is almost null in this case.
v) Easy Handling: Although it would be having the integration of ICT, it would be
extremely easy to handle and manage.

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vi) Independent Management: The patients do not have to dependent on the hospitals
or health experts for managing their data (Bajdor & Grabara, 2014). They themselves could
do this easily.
Conclusion
Therefore, it can be concluded that “My Health Record” is a specific electronic
summary of the health record or health information of patients. The main benefit of this
system would be that it would be reducing the pressure of the doctors and nurses. This system
was typically driven by the requirement of Health industry for continuing the reform process,
driving the efficiencies within the system of health care. The hospitals would be extremely
benefitted from this system. The above report has outlined the vision document for the
project of “My Health Record” that is to be launched by the Commonwealth Government of
Australia. The problem statement, capabilities and even benefits are given in this vision
document properly. The above report has clearly depicted the entire vision document
perfectly.

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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:
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Laudon, K. C., & Laudon, J. P. (2015). Management Information Systems: Managing the
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Hall Press.
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).
Woods, S. S., Schwartz, E., Tuepker, A., Press, N. A., Nazi, K. M., Turvey, C. L., & Nichol,
W. P. (2013). Patient experiences with full electronic access to health records and
clinical notes through the My HealtheVet Personal Health Record Pilot: qualitative
study. Journal of medical Internet research, 15(3).

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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.