Proposal for an E-Health Project

Question: Describe about the Proposal for an E-Health Project. Answer: Goal, Outcome and Rationale of Project eHealth projects are in rapid development and implementation for healthcare practice that is supported by communication and electronic processes in Australia (Uruea and 2016). According to Lang (2014), several eHealth projects are coming up across the country to serve the healthcare community and keeping in tune with the trend. Approximately AUS$ 24 million have been estimated as the cost of the project and the goal of the project is to support the healthcare transformation in Australia into an excellent patient-centric and integrated healthcare system. The rationale of the project is to provide a seamless, safer and quality experience for the patients and the healthcare providers by building up new knowledge. The project will also strengthen and develop the performance of the existing healthcare organizations. The outcome of the project will be to provide the patients more freedom to choose their place of receiving care as eHealth will allow the secure movement of healthcare data be tween the providers and across the healthcare system (Uruea, Hidalgo and Arenas 2016). Establishment of the Project The eHealth solution has been named as GeroCare and it is aimed at providing care services to the geriatric and ailing population of remote Australia. It has a self-service portal and a telehealth monitoring platform. ABC Health Corp. will be partnering with community care providers to roll out the project and this will be a breakthrough in community care of the geriatric patients. For timely providing of the medicines to the patients, it will no more be necessary for the nurses to visit their places. Instead, it can be done by a video-conferencing. It will be more like a doctor available round the clock for the aged population and the families of the patients will be much less worried than ever (Foster 2015). Outpatient healthcare providers will be partnered with ABC Health Corp. for launching the service at every sector and setting of healthcare in Australia. With the rise of chronic diseases in the aged community, eHealth can be a quicker and effective treatment option that will r equire much lesser traveling for the geriatric patients. Benefits and Challenges eHealth has been identified with several benefits and in the Australian context; it is the revolutionary change in the healthcare practice for the aged community (Lang 2014). Remote areas are highly represented in death and disability. Therefore, GeroCare intends to provide accurate and earlier diagnosis residents in remote areas. Life-saving treatment can be provided by remote consultations for both diagnostic and urgent purposes (Bergmo 2015). Additional benefits include faster and greater accesses to the medical history of the patient with a reduction in the adverse drug reactions. ABC Health Corp with its expensive investment will lead to complete electronic reformation of the remote Australia. Along with these benefits, there are challenges for implementing GeroCare. Data protection and data security is the prime concern for ABC. Training and engaging the healthcare professionals in the new technology is a challenge as they are huge in number (Slomian et al. 2014). However, keep ing in consideration the challenges, it can be said that the benefits of such projects are far-reaching and have the potential to improve the quality of care for the Australian aged population. Drivers for eHealth The key drivers of GeroCare in Australia are the stakeholders which include the patients, care providers and healthcare managers. To achieve its goal ABC Health Corp implements several strategic principles that act as driving force for the GeroCare project on a national level (Lang 2014). Its stakeholders, works hard to puts in place the necessary platforms and links to obtain synergy in knowledge translation. For this purpose, ABC will develop national infrastructure for delivering the core elements of GeroCare on a nationwide program. Building up of a strategic overview for ensuring effective coordination, leadership and oversight will be a part of the project governance. Engaging the stakeholders of ABC Health Corp. actively in this project is the plan of ABC Health Corp. on a local scale. Without the stakeholders participation the delivery and design of the solutions of GeroCare is difficult. References Bergmo, T.S., 2015. How to measure costs and benefits of eHealth interventions: An overview of methods and frameworks.Journal of medical Internet research,17(11). Foster, J., 2015. 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