Project Vision Document

Name of the organization- The commonwealth government

Country- Australia

Objectives- the objectives of the project are as described below

• To enhance the efficiency of present healthcare system
• To support the evolution of new system that helps the individual to control own record
• To apply the new system in all the healthcare organizations.

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 proper record is not maintained, the healthcare organization cannot come to know about the areas where it needs to improve the performance- it is very important for the organization to get feedback from the patients in order to improve the areas where the patients are facing problems. If record is maintained, the firm can know about the areas and improve them (Woods et al., 2013).
• If no one else than the patient makes changes in the record then it cannot be altered by anyone- if the control is not given to anyone other than the patient, then only the patient can alter the document and thus only the correct feedback remains (Hemsley et al., 2017). If this does not happen, any outsider can alter the document thus the data may be inaccurate
• Interruption can be done by outsiders- if the full control is not given to the patient, outsiders can alter it and feed wrong information to it. This will not help the organization to improve the areas with problems.

• Security threat- many security threats can rise due to improper and inaccurate maintenance of the record of the organization.
• Maintaining of manual record is tough to handle and insecure- the manual record is very tough to maintain and it can be altered by any outside individual thus, maintaining of electric 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 patient’s safety can be improved in the organizations- maintaining proper record can help the organization to improve the quality of safety of patient as the organization can keep track of the safety issues being faced by the patients in the organization (Druss et al., 2014). The  patient can report about any security threat faced during the medical surveillance. The management of patient’s safety through self management warfarin is possible through this.
• Patient care in the organization can be enhanced- if proper record is maintained in the organization, then the quality of patient care can be enhanced in the organization and it can be made better in every aspect.
• Huge amount of patient data can be managed without issues- if proper record is managed in the organization, then it provides the ease to maintain huge amount of data and thus keeping track of large number of patient admitted in the hospital (Nazi, 2013).
• Both the patient and the doctor will get better access to the record- if proper record is maintained, the patient as well as the doctor can get to know the details better.

Benefits of the proposed system- the proposed system can provide the firm with many benefits. The benefits that can b posed are as follows.

• Access can be done better-  the important healthcare 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 proper record is maintained, then it becomes easy for the organization as well as the patient to ensure safety. The patient can directly report to the doctor and all the previous data relate do the patient remains in the document and thus much time has not be waste d in the searching process (Lee et al., 2016).
• Privacy of the record matters-The proposed system’s full privacy is to the patient thus the patient can control the record. Any outsider cannot alter the record, which can increase the efficiency of the health of the patient. This can also help the organization 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 organization and thus the organization can get more time for the improvement sectors and improve the quality of care of the clinic. This can improve the effectiveness anf efficiency of healthcare in the organization.
• Patient can add data in the record- the medical prescription of the patient remains in the record and the patient can add extra data if he/she wants to. The extra data, which can be added by the patient 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).

Example of benefit- if a patient suffers from some type of illness, and he/she is in need of immediate surveillance, the patient can immediately report to the doctor about the emergency and the doctor can take immediate action to the  patient’s situation. Much time will not be wasted in visiting hospitals.

Journals – 1) A personally controlled electronic health record for Australia. Available at

https://academic.oup.com/jamia/article/21/4/707/761501/A-personally-controlled-electronic-health-record

2) General practice activity in Australia. Available at https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=aDFZAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=my+health+record-+australia&ots=ZXwvyu71wm&sig=F6ykonbRuAELp5_vvq00adOwjJk#v=onepage&q&f=false

References

DeANGELIS, C. D. (2014). The electronic health record: boon or bust for good patient care?. Milbank Quarterly, 92(3), 442-445.

Druss, B. G., Ji, X., Glick, G., & von Esenwein, S. A. (2014). Randomized trial of an electronic personal health record for patients with serious mental illnesses. American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(3), 360-368.

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.

Lee, G., Park, J. Y., Shin, S. Y., Hwang, J. S., Ryu, H. J., Lee, J. H., & Bates, D. W. (2016). Which users should be the focus of mobile personal health records? Analysis of user characteristics influencing usage of a tethered mobile personal health record. Telemedicine and e-Health, 22(5), 419-428.

Nazi, K. M. (2013). The personal health record paradox: health care professionals’ perspectives and the information ecology of personal health record systems in organizational and clinical settings. Journal of medical Internet research, 15(4), e70.

Woods, S. S., Schwartz, E., Tuepker, A., Press, N. A., Nazi, K. M., Turvey, C. L., & Nichol, W. P. (2013). Patient experiences with full electronic access to health records and clinical notes through the My HealtheVet Personal Health Record Pilot: qualitative study. Journal of medical Internet research, 15(3), e65.