Comprehensive Report on the My Health Records System in Australia

This report provides an analysis of the My Health Records system implemented by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. It explores various aspects, including psychological and technological problems such as data redundancy, security threats, and communication issues. The report also highlights the system's capabilities, such as improved patient safety, better access to healthcare information, and enhanced patient care through better record management. Furthermore, it discusses the benefits of the system, including improved access to patient data, enhanced safety, and the maintenance of patient privacy. The report references several studies and research papers to support its findings and emphasizes the system's role in improving the healthcare experience by enabling continuity of care and efficient management of patient information.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Problems..........................................................................................................................................2
Psychological Problems...............................................................................................................2
Technological Problems..............................................................................................................2
Other Problems............................................................................................................................3
Capabilities......................................................................................................................................3
Benefits............................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
The Commonwealth Government of Australia has been able to launch “My Health Records” for
properly analysing the secured online summary for the individual health information. It includes
the key information of the design for the records so that a proper integration can be done though
using the local clinical systems. They are able to drive by the needs for a better Health industry
that continues to process the reforms and drive to the inefficiencies into the healthcare systems.
“My Health Record” will be able to record the different changes and the updates which are done
by the patient (Kraan, Piggott, van der Vegt & Wisse, 2015). The objectives are to focus on
enhancing the efficiency of the health care system with supporting the evolution of new system
that will help in handling the control of own records.
Problems
Psychological Problems
a. If the record is not maintained properly, then the organisations of the health care cannot
know about the different areas which they need to work on for improving their
performance (Denaxas et al., 2017).
b. The critical analysis is about how the organisations get a proper feedback from the
patients in order to get an improvement in the areas where the different people are facing
the problems.
c. The records are managed with the areas that include the improvement in time.

Technological Problems
The database functionalities could be also issues which occur with redundancy in data and the
duplicity mainly due to the flat configuration setup of the system. Hence, if no one other than the
patients make the changes in the record, then it cannot be modified by any other person. If the
authorisation is not given to anyone, other than the patients, then only they can modify it with
accurate feedback. If it does not happen then, any outsiders can change it which could lead to the
inaccuracy of data (Urech et al., 2015). The interruption is another possible which is by the
outsiders where the full authorisation is also not given to the patients. Here, the outsiders can
easily modify it with feeding wrong information to the patient. This will not help in improving
the problems effectively.
Other Problems
The communication medium is a major problem for handling the successful integration of the
system. The major lack in the current system includes the problem of communication which
comes with the failure of the integration of system.
The security threats are related to appropriate maintenance of the records and maintaining a
manual record is also difficult as it is insecure to maintain and can be altered by any outside
individual.
Capabilities
The introduction is based on bringing the changes to the system which includes the quality of
patients, safety and properly maintaining the records that could improve the quality of safety
with properly tracking the safety issues. The patients can report about the threats of security at
the time of surveillance and patient management safety through self-management warfarin. The

patient care is enhanced if the records are properly managed in the organisation (Fildes et al.,
2015).
Benefits
The proposed system can be helpful for the firm where:
a. Access is done in a better manner.
b. Health care information for the patient tends to remain online with recording the
information of patient.
c. The patient travels or move to the other place with easy access to the data.
d. Safety can be improved and enhanced.
If the patient travels and move to the other place, the data can be accessed, and the problems
could be handled through directly reporting to the doctors through the application. The privacy
of the records is also maintained and there is no possibility of the change in the health records by
anonymous person. This can lead to the improve of the system efficiency with the proper
handling of the technology. Here, the additional data can also be added by the patients, with
emergency contact details and the personal health notes like the blood tests, etc.
Conclusion
Here, the benefits are about the patients suffering from different illness that are reported to the
doctors about the emergency (Gellert, Ramirez & Webster, 2015). Hence, one can take actions to
the patient situation where much time is also not wasted in visiting the hospitals or taking
appointments. The focus is on improving the experience of the people which is possible through

continuity of care with “My Health Record” application which can maintain the different data
patterns effectively and be updated, as and when needed.

References
Denaxas, S., Kunz, H., Smeeth, L., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, A., Boutselakis, H., Pikoula, M., &
Hemingway, H. (2017). Methods for enhancing the reproducibility of clinical
epidemiology research in linked electronic health records: results and lessons learned
from the CALIBER platform. International Journal for Population Data Science, 1(1).
Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A. T., & Gulliford, M. C. (2015).
Probability of an obese person attaining normal body weight: cohort study using
electronic health records. American Journal of Public Health, 105(9), e54-e59.
Gellert, G. A., Ramirez, R., & Webster, S. L. (2015). The rise of the medical scribe industry:
implications for the advancement of electronic health records. Jama, 313(13), 1315-1316.
Kraan, C. W., Piggott, J. J. H., van der Vegt, F., & Wisse, L. (2015). Personal Health Records:
Solving barriers to enhance adoption. E-health strategies.
Urech, T. H., Woodard, L. D., Virani, S. S., Dudley, R. A., Lutschg, M. Z., & Petersen, L. A.
(2015). Calculations of financial incentives for providers in a pay-for-performance
program: Manual review versus data from structured fields in electronic health
records. Medical care, 53(10), 901.