Comprehensive Report: My Health Record System in Australian Healthcare

This report examines the My Health Record system, an online application used in the Australian healthcare system. It discusses the system's capabilities, which include storing patient medical records, tracking health trends, and providing real-time data access for both patients and medical staff. The report highlights the benefits, such as improved patient care, reduced medication redundancy, and secure data storage. However, it also addresses problems, including limited accessibility for certain demographics, high costs, and privacy concerns related to data security and potential misuse. The report references the adoption of technology in healthcare, particularly the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and concludes that while the My Health Record system represents a significant advancement in healthcare technology, there are areas that need improvement.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Problems regarding the My Health Record System:.......................................................................2
Capabilities of MY Health Record System:....................................................................................3
Benefits of MY Health Record System:..........................................................................................3
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction:
In Australia “My Health Record” is one of the most reliable online applications for health
care system. Using this application the patients can track their medical record over the years. The
database on the application is designed in such a way that the patient or the doctor can access the
same database and can insert, update necessary medical information. Patients can seek medical
assistance from the doctor’s online (Weiskopf & Weng 2013).
Problems regarding the My Health Record System:
In the recent year technology growth rate is relatively high; many sectors are adopted
new technologies for their convenient. Health care is no exception as the health care systems also
grabbed the technology for its betterment. Though the new technologies serve a good amount of
benefit but the use of the technology in the health care in online is limited.
With the Indigenous health the Australian health care system is not efficient and
accessible. The price of the online application is too high because of that many people cannot get
the help or the care when they needed it the most.
One of the major benefits of the technology in the health care is the EMR (Electronic
Medical Record) system. The EMR can save patients time and cost in their critical condition.
Several problems though arise with the system, like privacy threats, below quality and needed
high amount of time for management (Middleton et al., 2013). In the EMR system sometimes the
real time data cannot be used. The patient’s privacy and the security of the patients data security
is one of the main features of EMR system. There are several cases where the patient’s personal

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and confidential health information is leaked and misused, it is also a concern for the online
health care system (Demirkan, 2013).
Capabilities of MY Health Record System:
The main capability of the My Health Record system is to store the medical record of the
patients in the online portal in a database. Then main objective of this health care system is to
observe the medical situation of a particular patient which changed over a time period and use it
whenever needed. It will help the patients as well as the doctor to know exactly what is the exact
problems that the patients facing over the years. in short it determines the health trend of the
patient.
The system is helping the medical staffs to provide better treatment than before as they
have all the information regarding the patient’s health. The seeking patients can get help faster in
the critical situation. Real time data can be inserted in the system by the patient or by the medical
staffs (Charles et al., 2013). The database consists of patient’s personal information as well as the
previous records like when the patient admitted, when discharged, the prescribed medicines and
improvement stats. These data can be tracked in real-time by the patient himself or by the
doctors. As the system is online, so using this application is more convenient in critical situation
rather roaming around seeking medical help.
Benefits of MY Health Record System:
The growth of the technology in the health care filed saw a huge impact on people’s
health related issue. The MY Health Record system provides the user to access the database
completely to insert, update and delete data whenever required. The medicines for the disease

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also prescribed and send online. The patient can download the prescription to use it offline. The
database is controlled from two ends several permissions are not there for the patients which can
be accessed by the medical staffs. As the database consist all the medical details it will help to
avoid the prescribed medicines redundancy that will reduce the patient’s medicine cost (Woodset
al., 2013). And the data stored in the database is secured too that no third party can access the
data without admin permission (Middleton et al., 2013).
Conclusion:
From the above discussion it can be concluded that the MY Health Record System is one
of the major improvement in the field of health care. The application is providing a new way of
health care which helping the patients immensely in the critical situation. Though the benefit of
the health care system is high there are still some issues regarding security concerns, high
management time and low standard application. Overall it can be said that it is the future of
health care technologies.

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