PCEHR

Personally controlled electronic health record in mental health

Personally controlled electronic health record in mental health

Introduction

Australia, like many other develop nations, initiated the process of implementing a national shared electronic health record (EHR) system. As the health care department announced the EHR system, it raised a number of attention-grabbing policy issues including the biggest issue the patients' records privacy with patient identification and also the management of patient consent for the participation and at last using the information for primary and secondary use. The essence of democracy is based on the effective participation of public in formulating any public policy (Showell, 2011, pp. 39-43). However, on the other hand, the health care department is of the idea that EHR system will assist the department in boasting up the patient safety issue with improving health care quality and delivery and also to cut down the waste and duplication.

Planning (MAP)

The Australian government planned to spend almost 466.7 million dollars with a time period of two years, which will revolutionize the health care delivery system in Australia. The government is of the view that eHealth record system will be the main building block of the National Health and Hospitals Network. The funding that offered by the government will be use to set up a secure system of personally controlled electronic health records, which will provide;

The system will develop automatic summary of the patient including patient's health information, list of medications and record of medical tests

Enables the secure and safe access to health care providers regarding their patients through internet regardless the physical presence of patient or doctor.

Serious measures taken to maintain the privacy

Only the health care providers who passed the national standard exams and involved in the planning of the health care system would be eligible to access and use the ...