Task
Background:
The Commonwealth Government of Australia is launching ‘My Health Record’ a secure online summary of an individual’s health information.
Available to all Australians, My Health Record is an electronic summary of an individual’s key health information, drawn from their existing records and is designed to be integrated into existing local clinical systems.
The ‘My Health Record’ is driven by the need for the Health Industry to continue a process of reform to drive efficiencies into the health care system, improve the quality of patient care, whilst reducing several issues that were apparent from the lack of important information that is shared about patients e.g. reducing the rate of hospital admissions due to issues with prescribed medications. This reform is critical to address the escalating costs of healthcare that become unsustainable in the medium to long term.
Individuals will control what goes into their My Health Record, and who is allowed to access it. An individual’s My Health Record allows them and their doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers to view and share the individual’s health information to provide the best possible care.
*Please Note: This is a real project that has already been implemented, however, for this assessment you are to write your answer as if the project is in its’ the early stages. There is wide variety of information that can be referenced on this topic.
Complete the Following
You are a Systems Analyst that is part of a project that is being currently being proposed, ‘My Health Record’, your task is to develop a Vision Document for this project.
Currently funding is being sought to build the ‘My Health Record’ system. We will assume that the funding has been approved and that you are the business systems analyst assigned to the project.
You are to describe the problem in your own words, and the capabilities and benefits. You need to create a Project Vision Document which contains:
• Problem
• Capabilities
• Benefits
Specific analysis techniques have not been taught yet, so this assignment does not require technical descriptions.
Rationale
This assignment has been designed to allow students to test and demonstrate their topic understanding related to:
• the context of an information system;
• the processes in systems analysis;
• the approaches in systems analysis
Presentation
Your answer should be a report approx. 3 pages, Times Roman size 12 (title page and references are not part of the page count). You should use your own words and avoid lengthy quotations.
Requirements
For this assessment you are required to use APA referencing to acknowledge the sources that you have used in preparing your assessment.
PROJECT VISION DOCUMENT
Name of the organisation
The Commonwealth Government of Australia
Project’s name
My Health Record
Objectives
The objectives of the project are as described below
• To enhance the efficiency of present health care system
• To support the evolution of new system that helps the individual to control own record
• To apply the new systemto all the health care organisations
Problems with the current system
There are several issues with the current system which can be resolved by the implementation of new system. The issues are
• If a proper record is not maintained, the health care organisations cannot know about the areas where they need to improve their performance – it is critical for the organisations to get feedback from the patients in order to improve the areas where the patients are facing problems. If the recordis maintained, they can know about the areas and improve them just in time (Woods et al., 2013).
• Communication medium – a proper communication is one of the key aspects of successful system integration. The current system is a lack of communication which can arise failure of the system integration.
• Database functionalities – there can be several database functionalities issues may occur such as data redundancy and duplicate of data due to the flat configuration of the system.
• If no one else than patients make changes in the record then it cannot be modified by anyone – if an authorisation is not given to anyone other than the patients, only they can modifythe document so the accurate feedback remains (Hemsley et al., 2017). If this does not happen, any outsiders can modify it thus the data may be inaccurate.
• Interruption can be done by outsiders – if the full authorisation is not given to the patients, the outsiders can modify it and feed wrong information to it. This will not help the organisations to improve the areas of the problems.
• Security threat – many security threats can arise due to the improper and inaccurate maintenance of the record of the organisations.
• Maintaining of a manual record is difficult to handle and insecure – the manual record is difficult to maintain and it can be altered by any outside individual thus, maintaining of electronic record can be great scope for improvement.
Capabilities of the new system
The introduced system is capable of bringing the following change in the system
• The quality of the patients’ safety can be improved in the organisations – maintaining proper record can help the organisations to improve the quality of safety of the patients as they can keep tracking on the safety issues being faced by their patients in the organisations (Druss et al., 2014). Therefore, the patients can report about any security threat faced during the medical surveillance and the management of the patients’ safety through self-management warfarin is potential through this.
• Patients care in the organisations can be enhanced – if the proper record is maintained in the organisations, then the quality of patients care can be enhanced in the organisations and it can be made better in every aspect.
• An enormous amount of patients data can be managed without issues – if the proper record is managedin the organisations, it will provide the ease to maintain an enormous amount of data and thus to keep track of a large number of the patients admitted to the hospital (Nazi, 2013).
• Both the patients and the doctors will get better access to the records – if the proper record is maintained, the patients as well as the doctors can get to know the details better.
• Unique data storage ID – as the database has significant capabilities to store data, the system will create unique ID for each data that can minimise an issue of data redundancy.
• Record monitoring – all data will be monitored by the database administrators who will help the manager to take an appropriate decision based on the information.
Benefits of the proposed system
The proposed system can provide the firm with many benefits. The benefits that can be posed are as follows
• Access can be done better – the relevanthealth care information of the patient remains online at one place thus it makes the record of the patient easily accessible by all the doctors nearby. Even if the patient travels or moves to another place, the data can be accessed and any problem might not be faced while accessing the data.
• Safety can be improved and enhanced – if the proper record is maintained, it will become easy for the organisations as well as the patients to ensure safety. They can directly report to the doctors and all the previous data relate to the patients remain in the document. Thus much time has not beenwasted in the searching process (Lee et al., 2016).
• Privacy of the record matters – the proposed system’s full privacy is to the patients so they can control the record. Any outsiders cannot alter it which can increase the efficiency of the health of the patients. This can also help the organisations to improve the care and safety quality (Woods et al., 2013).
• The continuity of care can be improved – maintain the health record will reduce the wastage of time in the organisations hence they can get more time for the improvement sectors and improve the quality of care of the clinic. This can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care in the organisations.
• Patients can add data in the record – the medical prescription of the patient remains in the record and the patients can add extra data if they want to. The additional data which can be added by the patients are any allergy and adverse reaction faced due to the medicines prescribed, emergency contact details, personal health notes and pathology reports such as blood tests (DeANGELIS, 2014).
Furthermore, the benefits of the proposed system can be illustrated when the patients suffer from some types of illness and they are in need of immediate surveillance, they can immediately report to the doctor about the emergency hence he/she can take immediate action to this patient’s situation. Therefore, much time will not be wasted in visiting hospitals anymore (Britt et al., 2013; Pearce & Bainbridge, 2014).