The Australian Digital Health Agency, eHealth NSW and the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, began to create a partnership, in order to achieve a convenient way of monitoring and improving the health of  Australian children, possibly from the time they are conceived up to their adulthood. Including the details regarding with the child’s interaction with the health system, other certain availed services like vaccinations, and their mother’s cooperation during pregnancy. This idea was practiced in August, 2017, considered to be safe, seamless and secure.

Traditional VS. Modernized Method

National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM) cited that since paper-based patient record (PPR) brings much more difficulty and hassle to compile, although it is still the golden standard, a modernized and high-tech strategy can help intact the needed documents and information.

Enabling Lifelong Digital Health Records InitiatedFuture Advantages

SCHN Chief Executive Dr. Michael Brydon  mentioned that it could be much more helpful if the records could be easily accessed by the parents, and healthcare experts so that they will be given opportunity to mark the children’s health. Also by the children, so that, as they grow older, it would be easier for them to start making life decisions about their own wellbeing.

In such a way, the proofs and testimonies could result to innovations of some new widespread solution, tools and services for various patients across Australia. The CEO of ADHA, Mr Tim Kelsey added that this might be a great opportunity to determine the impact of childhood health to the acquisition of several disorders in adulthood.

Prospect Answers and More Applied Actions

Around 400 clinicians, consumers, IT experts, and researchers from Australia desire to formulate and investigate a way for parents and healthcare providers to accomplish standardized health reports.
For now, the National Digital Health Strategy outlines a proving ground that will examine how they could provide complete documents. Systems like My Health Record, which is being rolled out nationally under an opt-out model, will serve as an approach for mintime accessibility.

In October 2017, ADHA’s Board supported the said project, in order to authenticate its concept.

The primary initiative is a a which is distributed through a hard copy baby books. For instance, Red Book in Queensland, and Blue ones in New South Wales and Green Book in Victoria. This method is actually good because the books are given on hand to the child’s guardians through an appointment but are usually misplaced and omitted.

The next is the upload of school immunisation records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). Through AIR, writing sheets, that are also often misplaced, are provided to encode the person’s received vaccinations.

Another one is the National Digital Pregnancy Health Record that serves an efficient digital pregnancy plan, so that probable health issues can be diagnosed at an early stage. Also, it will implement longitudinal child digital health record.


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