Information System For Headspace Organization

Introduction

An organization, named Headspace, treats various young patients with mental issues and problems in the New South Wales. This report outlines the innovative idea of storing the patient’s stories in a modern integrated information system during the first time they are being explained by the patients (Lee & Yu, 2012). This information system will be beneficial for the psychologists, doctors and the psychiatrists, as they do not have to disturb the patients by asking about their problems repeatedly.

Problem

Headspace is a recognized organization, which works with youth generation aged twelve to twenty-five, who experience mental illness and ill health. Anxiety and depression are the most common mental health problems, although there are many other mental illnesses as well. Youth suicide in indigenous New South Wales for the age group of sixteen to twenty four has been particularly disturbing and alarming, especially amongst the local and indigenous youth. One of the major problems recognized was that a young person of age group of sixteen to twenty five with a mental illness and problem needs special attention from multiple professionals. Every time these patients need to tell their problems again. The young people discussed little and even stopped talking about their problem. This makes it harder for the professionals to help them for their problems (Bajdor, & Grabara, 2014). Initially, a social worker of Headspace, then the medical staff in a hospital, maybe a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and a general practitioner sees them. Currently, funds are raised to form a system that will record the patient’s story in the first time. This will provide authority to the specific professionals, so that the case studies and their story can improve, and the young patient can be facilitated appropriately and more precisely (Laudon et al., 2012). The funding has been approved for the new information system and the business systems analyst of this project has to find the scope out of the project.

Capabilities

Headspace is an organization, which treats patients with mental ill health. The patients are of age group between sixteen to twenty four. These patients do not remain in the state of mind to tell their problems repeatedly. This becomes very hard for the doctors and psychiatrists to understand their problems. At one time, they completely stop discussing their problems and do not even want to talk about them (Demir & Krajewski, 2013). Recently, the funding is sponsored for a new up graded system that will record the stories of the patients, the first time they are being told. Information system is an integrated system that stores, collects, organizes and filters information. It is extremely beneficial for any organization, especially for cases like Headspace, where listening to patients illness repeatedly is a major problem.

Benefits

The implementation of an integrated information system is highly needed and beneficial for the Headspace organization. This information system helps to store, collect, communicate and organize information with utmost ease (Yucel, 2012). This is extremely easy to implement and cost effective. The integrated information system will store all the information regarding the patients and their health problems, so this new information system is very helpful for the Headspace organization.

Conclusion

Therefore, from the above report it can be concluded that, the new information system is needed and important for Headspace organization, which treats patients of youth generation with mental illness and mental health issues. This information system will store their story in the system, when they are told for the first time.

References

Bajdor, P., & Grabara, I. (2014). The Role of Information System Flows in Fulfilling Customers’ Individual Orders. Journal of Studies in Social Sciences, 7(2).

Demir, I., & Krajewski, W. F. (2013). Towards an integrated flood information system: centralized data access, analysis, and visualization. Environmental Modelling & Software, 50, 77-84.

Laudon, K. C., Laudon, J. P., Brabston, M. E., Chaney, M., Hawkins, L., & Gaskin, S. (2012). Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, Seventh Canadian Edition (7th. Pearson.

Lee, S. K., & Yu, J. H. (2012). Success model of project management information system in construction. Automation in construction, 25, 82-93.

Yucel, G., Cebi, S., Hoege, B., & Ozok, A. F. (2012). A fuzzy risk assessment model for hospital information system implementation. Expert Systems with Applications, 39(1), 1211-1218.