My Health Record Has Been An Electronic Summary

Discuss On Implementation Of My Health Record?

 

Introduction:

The “My Health Record” is an online summary of people’s health in Australia. Individuals are capable of knowing about the happenings inside it. Moreover, it has allowed communication with the hospitals, healthcare providers and doctors (Hemsley et al., 2016). 

The “My Health Record” has been galvanized with various reforms in the sectors like quality of patient care. Further various other issues like declining the expenses of admissions with medications as prescribed has been needed to be innovated. A proper “vision document” has been called for regarding the implementation of “My Health Record” system.         

The following report figure out the problems that might arise. Besides, various capabilities and advantages are also kept in mind.

The probable arising problems:

Various obstacles that might arise through the on goings of “My Health Record” are:        

1. Lack of adequate health professionals to add information:

It should be kept in mind that the main purpose of the initiative has been to improve quality, efficiency and safety of the patient care. There has been an essential need to decrease the medical errors regarding poor exchange of information about health. As a result of this adequate data about health has been required to be processed. Without this the initiative could not progress effectively (Hemsley et al., 2017).

1. Need to put on more data about the initiative:

Very few people have been noticed to upload copies of their “Advanced Care Directive”. This is a critically vital document about one’s wish for further medical treatment. More legal data websites are required to prompt the clients to keep their “Advanced Care Directive” in the “My Health Record”. The illiteracy to handle computers and ignorance about saving or uploading documents might keep away people from the “My health Record”.

• Ignorance about handling of records:

The record has been imposing high demand on the e-health and reading literacy. This has been difficult for many people to utilize. Thus it can form a barrier for the system. Further, with these problems the clients who do not have computers and internet access are also needed to be considered in the scenario of the problems (Pearce & Bainbridge, 2014).

Capabilities of the agency:

Various capabilities of “My Health Record” are discussed hereafter:

• Clinical Documents:

It supports the continuity of the care. It improves the communication between the patients and healthcare providers.

• E-Health Foundations:

It combines the main technologies of the authentication, encryption and unique identification.

• National infrastructure:

“My Health Record” has undertaken a national level initiative by creating a “digital health infrastructure” enabling health care for both present and future ("My Health Record | Welcome to My Health Record", 2017). 

• Implementation and adoption:

The agency has implemented Digital health within a wide range of healthcare settings along with private and public enterprises.

• E-Health References Platform:

The “e-Health reference platform” of the agency provides software vendors and participants. They adopt digital health test latest software and the clinical processes ("My Health Record | Welcome to My Health Record", 2017).

• Security and authentication:

The authentication and security is achieved by digital certificates conforming to the “Australian Government” endorsed PKI or “Public Key Infrastructure” standard.

• Secure Message Delivery or SMD:

The Secure Message Delivery or SMD systems of the “My Health Care” are the collection of specifications defining the approach to communication of digital health with broadly supported information technology industry standards.

• E-Medication Management:

This capability manages the processes of dispensing, prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and administering of the medicines. It is an inclusive part of assuring quality health outcomes. It also ensures use of medicines with effective costs (Kerai, Wood & Martin, 2014).

Benefits of the system:

The benefits of having the access to “My Health Record” are:

1. Better Access:

            The healthcare information available at one place in online could be easily accessed by the authorized specialists, hospitals and doctors.

1. Improved Safety:

            During any medical emergency the health care providers attached with the agency provides the best possible treatment very quickly.

• More Convenient:

            The remembrance and repetition of the health history regarding the medicines, dates of tests and so on are easily recorded ("My Health Record | Welcome to My Health Record", 2017).

1. Strong Security:

            One can easily choose the individuals who can easily access to his profile. Otherwise, in cases of illegal access, penalties are there.

1. Privacy Matters:

In order to maintain the privacy of the clients, the agency holds detailed data of the patient along with his family members. The registered “healthcare provider organizations” like hospitals and general practitioners can access the detailed information of the patient (Britt et al., 2013).

Conclusion:

Thus it is seen that the “My Health Record” has been a very effective methodology digitalizing the system of Australian healthcare. The healthcare has been providing awareness among the people regarding various problems like chronic diseases. It also provides a strategic guideline to face the diseases. Moreover, it has been a very cost-efficient policy. However, the government must further bear the large expense in imposing the system. Lastly, the future enhancements of this important initiative require considering of the experiences and vision of people with several health conditions

References:

Britt, H., Miller, G. C., Henderson, J., Bayram, C., Valenti, L., Harrison, C., ... & O'Halloran, J. (2013). General Practice Activity in Australia 2012-13: BEACH: Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (No. 33). Sydney University Press.

Hemsley, B., Georgiou, A., Carter, R., Hill, S., Higgins, I., van Vliet, P., & Balandin, S. (2016). Use of the My Health Record by people with communication disability in Australia: A review to inform the design and direction of future research. Health Information Management Journal, 45(3), 107-115.

Hemsley, B., McCarthy, S., Adams, N., Georgiou, A., Hill, S., & Balandin, S. (2017). Legal, ethical, and rights issues in the adoption and use of the “My Health Record” by people with communication disability in Australia. Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 1-9.

Kerai, P., Wood, P., & Martin, M. (2014). A pilot study on the views of elderly regional Australians of personally controlled electronic health records. International journal of medical informatics, 83(3), 201-209.

My Health Record | Welcome to My Health Record. (2017). Myhealthrecord.gov.au. Retrieved 24 March 2017, from https://myhealthrecord.gov.au/internet/mhr/publishing.nsf/content/home

Pearce, C., & Bainbridge, M. (2014). A personally controlled electronic health record for Australia. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 21(4), 707-713.