System Analysis of My Health Record: Australian Healthcare Context

This report provides a system analysis of My Health Record, an online digital health system developed by the Australian government. The system serves as a centralized repository of health information, offering benefits such as improved efficiency in healthcare delivery, enhanced information exchange among providers, and increased affordability for patients. The report highlights the system's capabilities, including secure patient data storage, clinical information flow regulation, and integration with national infrastructure. It also discusses features like e-medication, and the option for users to opt-out of the system. The analysis emphasizes the system's role in modernizing healthcare through technology and its potential to address global health issues, supported by references to relevant literature.

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My Health Record System
My health record is an online digital health system designed and developed by the government of
Australia. It comprises of brief information on health-related issues for different people, such as
what causes different diseases, the kind of treatment they receive for different diseases. It also
includes the types of medicine recommended and how to prevent re-occurrence of such diseases
to the same patient and to others. My health record is as a renovation of Personally Controlled
Electronic Health Record (PCEHR)
It is designed to be specifically managed by personal doctors, dispensaries for locals or big in
hospitals and other healthcare providers with respect to their means of control Information
Resources Management Association. (2015).This is to say that everyone can be registered to my
health record system unless they do not want to.
The acts of this system regulate how, when and who can access the information contained in it. It
is a breach of the system for unauthorized persons to deduce, use and divulge any information in
my health record system according to my health act 2012.
Benefits of the System
In the modern world, technology has taken health systems to whole new level. This has
facilitated a quick, effective, reliable and improved mode of delivering health services
(Lubotsky & Becker, 2010). My health record system has contributed through the following
ways:
With my health records, it is possible to spend more time with serious patients who need
more attention and care because less time is spent on searching for clinical advice and
investigating on how to handle other related conditions. This is also possible because you can
get the history of the patient’s health in the system if he or she is a registered member.

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The system will also enhance a more efficiency in exchange of information between various
healthcare providers. This is more useful in situations that do not necessarily need close or
physical examination (Lazakidou, (Ed.), 2011). Also information on dates and tome of
patients being discharged, others booking for appointment and check-up sessions and how to
aid an adverse reaction to treatment. This is possible because data can be retrieved anytime
and cannot be lost or altered with by authorized persons.
The information contained in my health record system is obtained for free and hence it is
highly affordable for anyone. This reduces the rates of premature deaths out of ignorance on
how to handle casualties or other health complications that need quick actions with an
immediate effect like breeding, and heart attacks. It will also help people residing from areas
far from health centers with poor road networks or other quicker means of transport
(McGinnis, Stuckhardt, Saunders, & Smith, (Eds.), 2013).
My health care system is legalized and passed by Australian government together with other
health organizations to provide health services. It is therefore safe and advisable to learn and
relay the information gathered from the system to administer health services with confidence.
Most of the information contained in the system is a record of real - life health experience of
individuals, which is then researched and confirmed to be true before it is accepted in the
system for use by others.
Capabilities of the System
Great interest and acknowledgment of developing system that keeps health records
electronically have caused a decrease in the use of paperwork. The technology of information
together with healthcare departments worldwide worked together and came up with a health
system that will address the global health issues differently (Levy, 2014).

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The system is capable of securing the patients' information such as laboratory results and other
personal detailed data. It enhances the clinical flow of information by regulating and restricting
authorized users
The combination of key technologies through eHealth Foundation encrypts information to
provide a safe method of gathering health information. A secure message delivery system is a
key aspect of the system that ensures free and private exchange of information and is supported
by great industrial standards
The system also enhances National infrastructure. This is a national approach that supports
territory reforms and requires digital health infrastructure that enables a clear insight that
improves health in the future. When implementing and adopting the digital healthcare systems
relevant foundations are enhanced. Through e-Health platforms, clinical validation stimulates
healthcare systems enhancing safe working practices (Vincent et al 2016).
E-Medication is another feature that is cost-effective and guides prescription and administering
of medicine ensuring good health outcomes. This system has been set in a way that those
individuals that are registered and do not require its services anymore can have an option to sign
out the registration.

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References
Information Resources Management Association. (2015). E-Health and Telemedicine: Concepts,
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Personalized Medicine: Technologies and Processes: Technologies and Processes. IGI
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Levy, H. M. (2014). Capability-based computer systems. Digital Press.
Lubotsky, L. B., & Becker, M. A. (2010). A public health perspective of womens’ mental health.
McGinnis, J. M., Stuckhardt, L., Saunders, R., & Smith, M. (Eds.). (2013). Best care at lower
cost: the path to continuously learning health care in America. National Academies
Press.
Vincent, J. L., Abraham, E., Kochanek, P., Moore, F. A., & Fink, M. P. (2016). Textbook of
Critical Care E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences.