System Analysis and Design for My Health Record

This report discusses the system analysis and design for My Health Record, highlighting the issues in existing health services, the capabilities of the proposed system, and its benefits. It emphasizes the importance of a centralized health information system to enhance patient safety, accessibility, and the overall quality of healthcare services. The report also reviews the potential for improved coordination among healthcare providers and the advantages of timely and cost-effective healthcare delivery.

Running head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN FOR MY HEALTH RECORD
System analysis and design for My Health Record
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Table of Contents
Issue and problems in the existing health services.....................................................................2
Capabilities in the proposed health information system My Health Record.............................3
Benefits of the proposed health information system (My Health Record)................................4
References..................................................................................................................................6

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Issue and problems in the existing health services
In the present scenario the health care system is considered as one of the most
complex system as the patients have to undergo multiple number of tests and meet with
several physicians. The use of information technology to develop a central information
system can potentially enhance safety of the patient, patient satisfaction level and
organizational effectiveness that are providing health care services to the patients.
The patient record or the details of the patient story is important as this records
contains considerable number of information obtained and made amid a particular patient
gets treated by several different physicians and health care services (de Lusignan, et al.,
2014). The proposed health record information system will help the patient and the
physicians to review older observation of the patient’s health done by other doctors or
physicians, to get vital health informations in medical emergency, to justify the medication
provided to the patients.
In case of the pen paper based, patient record system, it takes a certain number of
human resources who will be responsible for maintaining and updating the information
related to the patients which also leads to too much time consumption.
Cost: One of the major issues that is impacting the expenditure of the health services
is the cost to manually maintain the health records despite the fact that the proficiency gave
by this sort of records is not accurate and time efficient. The time required to record, recover
and modify the patient records can be vital in the event of any medical emergency (Friend,
Jennings & Levine, 2017). This manual health record keeping system is likewise in charge of
repetitive therapeutic tests and reports of the patients which again expends part of time in the
entire medicinal services.

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Enhanced Accessibility: in the present system, the access to the patient’s records are
restricted in the premises of the health care facility that he/she visits often (Abbas & Khan
2014). Thus in case any medical emergency of the patient when he/she is out of his city or
locality then it would not be possible for the doctors at that location to access the medical
history that may be important to save the patient’s life or to start the treatment avoiding the
adverse situations that may occur due to the use of inappropriate medicines (against which
the patient may have allergy).
Loss of information in the total process: In the present system, the mentally ill
person had to tell their story to the each medical expert they meet. In this process, one of the
issues recognized in this process was that each time a youngster have to re-tell their 'story' it
causes loss important health information as in this long process the youngsters gets calm up
and consequently tells minimum detail to the experts who comes at the end of this process.
Capabilities in the proposed health information system My
Health Record
Will provide improved co-ordination between different health service providers:
Through this proposed patient information system health data of the patients can be uploaded
and recovered from anyplace at any time utilizing internet that will help in providing faster
treatment of the patients (Friend, Jennings & Levine, 2017). This feature will help in the
situation when a patient is effected by any severe illness while they are far from the home
city and known specialists, the therapeutic specialist at the location can get to My Health
Record to recover the patient previous health information keeping in mind the end goal to
give faster and best in class medicinal services to help the patient recover faster from the
illness.

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Improved QoS for the health services: As the proposed information system will include the
patients in the whole system of health care service and require their active participation in the
process thus it will help in improving the quality and timeliness of the services provided to
them by the different health care (de Lusignan, et al., 2014).
This system will help in to improve the productivity and efficiency of health care services
and decrease the regulatory and work costs related with medicinal services conveyance and
financing. Staffing deficiencies is developed due to the execution of same processes
repeatedly which will be reduced by the use of “My Health Record”.
Benefits of the proposed health information system (My Health
Record)
Increased convenience: After the development of the proposed online health record
system the patients does not have to worry to remember and repeat their health and
medication history such as details of chronic conditions, medicines prescribed to them
previously, allergies against specific drugs, dates of recent tests, their results, with different
or newer healthcare service providers (Abbas & Khan 2014).
Privacy of patient’s data: In case of proposed online health record system (My
Health Record) it may collect personal information and other medical information from
different government bodies and Medicare that includes name, date of birth, and recent
medical records. This data will be accessible by different registered healthcare service
providers like health care facilities and hospitals (Friend, Jennings & Levine, 2017). This
will enable those facilities in providing better services according to the previous medical data
when providing healthcare to a specific patient. The individuals or the patients can set access
controls/ levels to restrict which healthcare providers can access/ see their personal as well
health information.

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Availability of data: Regardless of the possibility that the patients move or travel, the
data can be stored safely on the internet platform, anyplace, whenever. If the patient require
then they can restrict the access level for the different individuals in order to save the privacy
of the data.
Keeping in mind the end goal to securely share and access to the patient’s data in the
health care services, it is basic to have the capacity to authenticate the users, including the
facilities and physicians (Abbas & Khan 2014). In the My Health Record framework, this is
accomplished using computerized central information that will meet the Australian
Government embraced Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) standard.
Streamlined process: Use of the online patient health record system will help in
automating the different health care services provided to the patients. In addition to that, this
will also help in streamlining the procedures that will result in reduction in the expenditure
and improve the related revenue (de Lusignan, et al., 2014). The revenue will be enhanced
through the integrations of the different processes in the health care facilities and avoiding
adverse medical situations.
Timely and cost effective health care services: The use of the proposed online
health record system will help in saving precious time and health care related expenditure
(Friend, Jennings & Levine, 2017). For instance, the ability of this system to show past test
results of the patients can altogether decrease the number of tests requested in a medical
emergency, sparing the expenditure, as well as keeping the patient from experiencing
excessive medical tests.
As described before, data on understanding sensitivities or allergies against different
medicines, in mix with alarms and updates, can diminish the number of pharmaceutical
related unfavourable and adverse events and enhance the recommending practices of doctors

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and medical specialists (Abbas & Khan 2014). In addition to that, different medical issues for
example, abnormal test outcomes for a specific patient, can be treated and manage in more
timey basis if the doctor at the health care facility has the data at the time of emergency.

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