improve quality of patient care
AUD$466.7 million over two years is provided to fund the creation of a personally controlled “national e-Health records system”, which will enable Australians to check their medical history and provide electronic access to others if they wish.
One of the most significant obstacles to improved patient care, at a reasonable cost, is the relative lack of real-time access to current, comprehensive patient medical information that is easily retrievable for patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare payers.
Healthcare organizations today must manage two diametrically opposed sets of requirements: the practitioner’s need for ease of access to information versus the business’s need to apply increased privacy and security controls against that data.
How do you ensure that healhcare provision is of the highest quality and efficiency without costing an arm and a leg. Orcun Tezel, Technical Director, 3Com Asia Pacific, offers 8 practical recommendations to managing the healthcare information systems without breaking the bank.
Public health service in Hong Kong is administered through a centralized electronic record system. Private sector participating to this electronic system is non-existent. But this is changing. Dr. C.P. Wong, Chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics, says this is changing as healthcare practitioners see the benefits of shared information.
In an industry where the ability to respond quickly and reach the right person at the right time is crucial, unified communications represent an unprecedented opportunity to streamline communication processes and improve the quality of patient care. Physicians, nurses, staff and patients can have secure, anytime access to the information they need — and to each other. With a unified communications solution that integrates all communications tools into a single interface, critical information can be exchanged by voicemail, text messages or even video.
