My Health Record System: A Comprehensive Project Report

This report provides an overview of a proposed My Health Record System, designed to address issues within the existing healthcare system, particularly for young people with mental illnesses. The system aims to create a centralized digital health record accessible to healthcare professionals, eliminating the need for patients to repeatedly recount their medical history. The report details the system's capabilities, including secure data storage with 128-bit encryption, and its benefits, such as improved access to healthcare records, reduced patient burden, enhanced security, and increased interaction between patients and professionals. The conclusion emphasizes the system's potential to improve healthcare efficiency and patient outcomes, advocating for its rapid development and implementation. The report also includes a list of relevant references supporting the project's concepts.

Running head: MY HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction......................................................................................................................2
2. Problem............................................................................................................................2
3. Capabilities......................................................................................................................2
4. Benefits............................................................................................................................3
5. Conclusion.......................................................................................................................4
6. References........................................................................................................................5

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1. Introduction
The organization Headspace is planning to develop a system that will record the patients
concern and their problems, the very first time it is cited. The other professionals whom the
patient will visit in furure can access the recordings. This will not only eliminate the patients’
concern of re telling their story a number of times but also help the professionals know their
patients’ problem better (Mercer et al., 2012). The Vision document of this project is discussed
in the following paragraphs.
2. Problem
The problem about the existing system is that, the young people with mental illness when
visit a number of professionals such as a Headspace case worker, a medical staff in a Hospital
emergency department, a general practitioner, a psychologist, a psychiatrist and so on, they tend
to speak very less about their problems to the successive professionals. This turns out to be a
huge problem for the professional in knowing their exact concern (Corrigan et al., 2012). The
professionals are not being able to help those young people without knowing their exact concern.
This is a major problem for the patients as well since they are not getting a proper treatment. In
order to deal with this problem, Headspace organization of Australia is planning to build a health
record system that will record the patients’ data the first time it is told and the subsequent
professionals visited by the patient can access this recording (Frazier, 2017).
3. Capabilities
The system to be built is a digital health record system that will store the summary of the
health information of the patients visiting the organization. The aim of developing this system is
to make the health system more agile, sustainable and easily accessible (Beasley & Sinsky2014).

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My health record system will enable an easier and faster access to the health information,
which will in turn help in creating a more efficient treatment and further help in improving the
treatment decisions. Since the recordings are captured, the very first time it is told, all the details
of the patients’ concern is effectively stored. All the professionals and the patients have to
register to the MY health record system in order to access it. Only the authenticated users are
allowed to access the system that adds to the security level of the system (Mello et al., 2013). All
the patients’ data will be properly secured with 128-bit encryption, which will prevent it from
unauthenticated access thus ensuring confidentiality and integrity of the patients’ data. This
system will eliminate the problems associated with the current system and thus the project needs
to be initiated as soon as possible
4. Benefits
The benefits of “My Health record System” is listed below-
1) This system will enable better access of the all the healthcare records at one place.
This will benefit not only the professionals but also the patients. They will be able to access all
their heal records with a single click (Bisbal, 2013). Moreover, the professionals need not ask the
patients repeatedly about their health concers, as they will get all the necessary information from
the database of this system.
2) This system will eliminate the concerns of the patients in re telling their story every
time they visit a new professional. They need not have to remember the every minute details of
their health record and repeat their health history to the every professional they consult (Huba &
Zhang, 2012).

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3) The system will be protected by a strong security system and the patients can decide
who can access their health records. This follows a strict rules and regulation that prevents the
unauthenticated access of the data. The system will thoroughly acknowledge the privacy
concerns of the patients and will prevent any means of unauthorized access for the same (Pearce
& Bainbridge, (2014).
4) This system will increase the interaction between the patients and the professionals.
This system will be convenient to use, as the information will be shared among the professionals
electronically (Thilakanathan et al., 2014).
5. Conclusion
It can be thus concluded that this system will provide a wide range of benefits and is
capable for further improvements as well. This will eliminate the problems associated with the
current system and thus the system should be developed as soon as possible.

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6. References
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Bisbal, J. (2013). Electronic health records. In Encyclopedia of Systems Biology (pp. 650-652).
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Corrigan, P. W., Morris, S. B., Michaels, P. J., Rafacz, J. D., & Rüsch, N. (2012). Challenging
the public stigma of mental illness: a meta-analysis of outcome studies. Psychiatric
services, 63(10), 963-973.
Frazier, K. (2017). Electronic Health Records. AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 117(6),
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Huba, N., & Zhang, Y. (2012). Designing patient-centered personal health records (PHRs):
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Mello, M. M., Francer, J. K., Wilenzick, M., Teden, P., Bierer, B. E., & Barnes, M. (2013).
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Pearce, C., & Bainbridge, M. (2014). A personally controlled electronic health record for
Australia. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 21(4), 707-713.
Thilakanathan, D., Chen, S., Nepal, S., Calvo, R., & Alem, L. (2014). A platform for
secure monitoring and sharing of generic health data in the Cloud. Future Generation Computer
Systems, 35, 102-113.