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The Current And Possible Future Use E Health Records And Systems

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Professional Optom Assignment 3 Discuss the current and possible future use e-health records and systems etc designed for electronic referrals between healthcare providers Introduction With the development of society and technology, patients increasingly have higher expectations and demands which place pressure on both the health care system and health care providers. Furthermore, as Australia’s population grows and ages, there is an increasing number of patients with complex or continuous care needs which requires co-management with more than one healthcare practitioner. Even now, many patient healthcare records are held in separate locations with different medical practitioners, hospitals and other healthcare providers such as …show more content…

These findings appears stem from a lack of clear policies, poor understanding of the potential benefits, stakeholders who are not interested and/or are not willing to change in addition to poor execution of eHealth initiatives. Figure 1: PCEHR Operations Report Dec 3 Department of Health Figure 2: PCEHR Operations Report Dec 3 Department of Health1 Aims and benefits of the PCEHR Health expenditure in Australia has been increasing each year and the estimated recurrent cost of health per person is $5, 881.6 From an unpublished 2010 Deloitte report, the federal government claimed that the PCEHR system will save more than $11 billion dollars over the next 15 years upon implementation. This would primarily come about from better medication management, better quality patient management, patient self management, saving money by having all records electronically. Medication management would reduce the incidence of adverse drug events, hence reducing harm and mortality of patients in hospitals and improved mortality and morbidity due to diseases which require precise use of medication. Some examples include asthma, peptic ulcer disease and schizophrenia. Better quality patient management would include proper patient history including demographics, current medications and adverse events, discharge summaries and clinical measurements which will allow for more efficient and focused

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