The following is a list of meHealth issues, and an overview of some of the steps necessary to solve them: meHealth
- Convince stake holders of the efficacy of Personal Healthcare Pages and/or (PHP) National Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Enable all healthcare stakeholders (consumers, healthcare givers, healthcare managers) to use the Web as a platform to share information, deliver care and build communities
- Enable patients to make better lifestyle choices
Collaborative Health
- Convince stake holders that Collaborative Health Care (CHC) is a cheaper, safer, and better system
- Enable single points of contact, self service and self help
- Enable Doctors to make better diagnoses and prescribe better treatments through access to more useful and integrated data
- Enable data aggregation to produce useful data of clinical significance for researchers evaluation, teaching doctors and development of health services
Non Vendor Locked Tools
- Ensure systems are easy and economical for use by all stakeholders
- Enable tools that help patients feel more informed, included and valued
- Enable medical help via Web sites/browsers and smart phone apps
- Enable easily understandable bundles of products and services that can be compared on quality and price, and used by stake holders with a wide range of capability levels
- Enable access to and co-ordination of home based medical equipment / tools and assessments along with data-generating Web-enabled devices
- Enable tools for doctor patient dialogue
- Enable healthcare givers to electronically interact with patients regardless of where they are located
- Enable disparate IT systems and processes to connect and co-ordinate with each other
- Enable secure flexibility within mobile services, using such tools as PDAs and VOIP processes
- Enable healthcare managers to better respond to emergencies and rapidly assess the national impact of particular treatments
Governmental Issues
- Enable and enhance uptake by governmental agencies
- Support government responsibility for public infrastructure and systems
- Enable support for vast consumer and care provider populations in urban, suburban, rural and remote locations
- Enable effective co-ordination and oversight of national E-Health activities
- Enable tools and systems which support informed policy, investment and research decisions
Security and Privacy
- Ensure security of all data transfers
- Ensure privacy for patients
- Enable confidential electronic information to be securely and seamlessly accessed and shared, by the right person at the right place and time, regardless of their location
Standards
- Either create and enable record system standards and benchmarks, or make standards unnecessary by enabling different systems to talk/work with to one another without vendor lock, using a Web 3.0 / Semantic Solution
Data Management
- Incentivise enhancement of IT and information management
- Incentivise investment in infra- and info-structures
- Ensure easy and economical training and support
- Ensure implementation is cost effective
Infrastructure
- Maximize existing information management and technology to improve functionality
- Upgrade old computers and dial-up Internet access or ensure they can work within the new system
- Ensure new systems are designed with potential user consultation
- Support Funding to improve rural ICT infrastructure
- Ensure broadband / ‘chatty’ high-speed connections are not necessary for most clinical consultation (Systems can be broadband based, but must not be broadband bound)
Costs
- Reduce/Eliminate errors, inefficiencies and the wastage of time and effort
- Lower healthcare provisioning costs
- Ensures cost and service level transparency
- Lowers costs on families and communities supporting the elderly
- Cut time needed to review and implement systems and training
- Modernise the management and transmission of data
- Consolidate medical records/services and clinically relevant information
- Remove duplication of healthcare efforts, expenditure and solutions
- Reduce administration time and costs
- Combine insurance systems reducing duplications and high overhead costs
Systems and Processes
- Enable an integrated health care delivery system
- Link emergency and acute hospitals with tertiary care in the community sector
- Enable integrated healthcare delivery systems and the consolidation of medical records/services
- Ensure B2B applications (i.e. reporting, billing and claiming processes) are integrated into general practice software systems
- Enable the secure viewing and following of healthcare processes
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Bottom line: meHealth makes money, and it makes sense.
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