Healthcare System Analysis and Implementing

Question: Discuss about the Healthcare System Analysis and Implementing. Answer: Introduction Recently the Healthcare systems across the whole world has been undergoing several up gradations. The existing system is facing various kind of difficulties such as, a variety of statistics are being obtained from a larger variety of patients. In addition to this technological alterations and the increase in the cost of services provided by the healthcare organizations are also causing some difficulties for the Healthcare systems (Willis, Reynolds Keleher, 2016). The report contains the problems regarding, My Health Record and providing solutions for it (Hemsley et al., 2016). The report consists of a brief background of My Health Record, A brief analysis of it regarding the problems, capabilities and benefits of it. Background of My Health Record My Health Record is a system that performs the task of recording the Healthcare data electronically. It serves as an alternative to keeping records of the data from the Healthcare systems in documentations and paper. The system can keep the record of the medical history of a person till date very efficiently. In addition to this it also will help the healthcare systems in collection of information, and storing and handling them very efficiently. The Australian government are said to have made a big amount of investment for the implementation of the project. Approval for funding for completion of the project has also been given. Problems Faced by the Healthcare system The Commonwealth Government of Australia are looking forward to digitizing their healthcare system. But several problems have arisen (Britt et al., 2013). The problems are: There has been an increase in the total population of Australia over time (Vardoulakis, 2014). It is projected that by 2053, of the total population of Australia around 21% would have an average age of 65. With increasing rate of aged people in Australia, maintenance of the total population of the country is turning into a serious issue. Additionally, the budget is also very challenging for the government and hence, maintaining a cost efficient system is becoming a serious challenge. The development in the technology has been very helpful in the process of providing protection to the population from several chronic diseases. However, the implementation of such a system is very difficult considering the financial area. The cost for implementation of the project is immense and this create an additional pressure on the government and overburden them with the budget. Problems regarding research: Australia have had an impressive history medically. Although, the health sector need perform a more expanded form of research on the various diseases that have come up in recently in Australia. But, they lack the data recording system that would enable to perform such research techniques. One of the main issue is the equity issue. It is very difficult to provide the healthcare services to the entire population on an equal basis. The difficulties arise as because, most of the population that are not affluent are not receiving the facilities that they require, although the affluent sector of the population are added advantage in this case. This hampers the prospect of morality and increase the variety in expectancy of life of different sectors of the population. Capabilities of My Health Record The Record system should be capable of overcoming the issues that are being faced now (Hsiao et al., 2013). It should maintain the patients health records and also solve the demographic issues. It should have a list of all diseases and their medication. In addition to this it should also provide notes and documents related to the clinical diseases. It should make documentation of the external diseases and also provide some guidelines for curing these disease. It should also provide some instruction and safety guidelines for the aged and lonely sector of the population. It should provide some facilities like Notifications, collection of specimens and Reminders. It should also provide some authentication facilities for safety of the data of the patients. Benefits of My Health record The My Health Record would improve the service quality provided by the healthcare system and chance of medical errors would also get reduced (Woods et al., 2013). It would also reduce the cost and increase the performances. Additionally it would also be very cost efficient by improving the billing techniques and eliminating the excess cost. This system would be very effective in situation where severe epidemics occur. This would make the healthcare organizations aware of various new diseases. Awareness among the common people will also be spread. The cost of testing methods would also be reduced by this system. Conclusion Conclusively it can be said that, My Health Record, would be a very useful tool for the digitization process of the healthcare system of Australia. There have been some problem with the existing healthcare system. Firstly, the government has to bear a huge amount of cost for maintain their healthcare system and there has been an increase in the number of aged people within the total population of Australia. But, these are the minor issues which can solved very easily with the implementation of My Health Record. Additionally, the Health Record system would provide various kinds of benefits to the healthcare system and the society as well. It make the organizations and the common people more aware of various unique diseases. In addition to this it would also increase the cost efficiency of the present system. This system would provide various kind of facilities within a single structure. References Britt, H., Miller, G. 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