HCMG850 Health Care Reform : About eHealth Records

What are eHealth's actual and potential impacts on the primary stakeholders in healthcare delivery; why are they significant? 

The eHealth is paramount to stakeholders of healthcare in different ways. Mobile technology has enabled patients to adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles and avoid them of chronic conditions resulted from smoking, poor, diabetes, obesity and heart disease. Telemedicine has a great potential in supporting patients care outside the clinic through consultations and monitoring. The mHealth technologies ensure quick monitoring of symptoms always utilizing regular or self-report sensors, mounting the possibility that a deterioration condition will be handled in an appropriate approach (Klasnja & Pratt, 2014). The new text, image, and voice have offered opportunities for clinicians. Medical books have been replaced with an e-book which clinicians can access information quickly at their hand.

The eHealth has assisted clinicians to improve their literacy skills in many settings for different diseases for diverse samples. The IT-based interventions utilized to support health literacy have the ability for being very available on the Internet and handheld devices like tablets and smartphones (Piho, 2015). The field of eHealth shows potential in that it can maintain and facilitate health conduct change and help in the impediment and disease management. The telehealth assists to follow up and offer high-quality health care to patients, and it is evident for the follow-up to the posts of patients (Malvey & Slovensky, 2014). The narratives that patients develop and share outside the constraints of time-limited consultations can assist clinicians to come up with more inclusive view of the condition of their patients, thus enabling them to personalize the care to the patient’s specific needs

What factors define the CHI role in consumer eHealth; what is the role they are defining?

  CHI is a secure solution for eHealth records and other digital projects in Canada. It facilitates the access of health, improves individual’s efficiency on health care providers and also ensures that the health care system is efficient. It has assisted in funding lots of projects such as laboratory information systems, diagnostic imaging systems drug information, interoperable electronic medical records, and registries. The model has helped in saving money which could be used to record data (Kuziemsky et al., 2009). However, it has improved the management of the chronic diseases and also facilitates communication among the health care providers. It has goals which are aimed at promoting the safety of medical; convenience and also patient’s safety via prescribe IT.

It project to scale and expand innovative solutions in the major areas where the digital health has shown significant potential. It also aims at connecting all people of Canada with health information to enable them to manage well their wellness and health (Kuziemsky et al., 2009). However, it a wants to continue offering thought leadership in digital health by inflicting appropriate legislation and policies. Also, it seeks to be a leading solution to architecture, security, and privacy and clinical interoperability

Strategic factors do healthcare organizations need to plan and prioritize to realize eHealth conceptually and functionally

To achieve conceptual and functionality, health care institutions should consider if the eHealth model is addressing the long-term needs a shorter needs of the organization. These are finances, policy support and also if it falls within research category. However, the effect the model has on health care tasks is also a strategy which should be considered (Piho, 2015). They should look at how its ease to use by clinicians and also the one which must minimize efforts needed by clinicians to get and act on the system. However, the ease to trains staff on how to use it also is a long term goal, for instance, the cost of training should be considered. However the ability to deliver forms a short goal. It should come out with better results and also accuracy. It should be a coherent model. Coherence is logic making work done once a new e-health service is executed to establish whether users find it as conflicting from current performance, have a collective opinion of its intention, comprehend how it will influence them individually and take hold of its potential advantages.

References

Klasnja, P., & Pratt, W. (2014). Managing health with mobile technology. interactions, 21(1), 66-69.

Malvey, D., & Slovensky, D. J. (2014). From Telemedicine to Telehealth to eHealth: Where Does mHealth Fit?. In mHealth (pp. 19-43). Springer US.

Piho, G., (2015) 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare.

Kuziemsky, C. E., & Weber-Jahnke, J. H. (2009). An ebusiness-based framework for ehealth interoperability. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligenc