Software Development For My Health Record: Advantages And Models

Best Vendors for Software Development

Discuss about the Cloud Computing Impact on Healthcare Industry.

In order to get all the necessary health related details of the patient under one roof a software needs to be developed that will help in providing and accessing the information relate to the patients through a click. This software will help in providing electronic summary to the patients as well as healthcare experts as and when required. Hence, to achieve this objective of the Commonwealth Government of Australia few vendors of software developments that can serve this purpose are suggested below with their features that will help in deciding over their selection for the process of software development.

• Clintel was established in the year 2006 and since then the organization’s major aim is to provide with clinical software solutions as well as medical specialist software solutions to the healthcare providers within Australia.
• The clients of the organization vary from the government departments to complex medical organizations to individual medical specialists.
• The organization leads in the market by offering top class medical software solutions as well as support to more than 5000 users in Australia.
• The medical software team of the organization has great experience in the field of health as well as eHealth industry.
• Clintel holds the record of successful deployment of medical software applications in a number of healthcare organizations.
• The organization is famous for providing the best medical software to the customers that offers great mobility, functionality as well as integration (Clintel, 2018).

This organization is best suitable for the formation of the information system as it holds record for developing software application for a number of healthcare institutes as well as the organization specializes in health as well as eHealth services management.

• InfoMedix an Australian based company specializes in providing solutions related to information integration to the healthcare industry with the main focus over the medical records as well as the clinical information.
• The organization aims to integrate the technological advancements taking place with the healthcare sector.
• The team members of the organization specializes in software developments as well as consists of people that are related to medical fields
• The developers of the organization work in close coordination with the healthcare experts so that the best quality software can be offered
• The organization ensures that the software developed is fast, easy to access as well as secure.
• The healthcare professionals of the organization first use the software before launching it in the market.
• The organization has delivered applications like Clinical Patient Folder (CPF), as well as other HIM modules to health organizations in the country with the motive of providing high quality software application which is influenced by information as well as other new technologies (InfoMedix, 2018).

The main reason that this organization is best suitable for this purpose is that InfoMedix contain the team members that are experienced in software developments as well as also include healthcare professionals. Under the guidance of the healthcare professionals the software are developed and hence the software developed by InfoMedix offers the best software to the healthcare providers.

• The organization specializes in providing business applications that are demanded by the medical market.
• The organization has developed several high quality as well as technologically advanced software solutions for serving the purpose of different medical specialities.
• The organization develops applications that are unique in nature according to specific demands of the healthcare organizations.
• The organization specializes in designing as well as developing web along with client server; system analysis; software applications; data conversion as well as HL 7 integration along with Hospital PAS
• The organization has an experience of 20 years in the field of developing software applications for medical sector
• The organization also specializes in developing complex “multi-tier scalable client server” as well as web applications (Health Track , 2018).

This organization is best suitable for developing the information system under “My Health Record” because this organization has the longest experience in the field of healthcare software developments and has developed many famous applications like the HL 7 with Hospital PAS, multi-tier scalable client server, etc.

Cloud based solution in simple terms can be understood as the on demand service, or application, computer networks as well as storage that is accessed with the help of the internet services and the shared cloud computing infrastructure of another provider (Deputy, 2017). Cloud computing means storing data as well as making provisions for the access of the data and other related programs over the internet; this means that this gives accessibility to information apart from the information and data stored on the hardware (Griffith, 2016). Cloud can be understood as internet. With the help of cloud a person is able to use a software platform even from the remotest location. With the help of cloud based solutions one application can perform multiple functions like for example signing in through Gmail account (Little Hotelier, 2018). Cloud computing is believed to do wonders in the field of healthcare industry. Though, it is seen that healthcare industry is a slow adopter of cloud computing because of obvious reasons and has kept itself limited to back office systems as well as to digitization of medical information (Cisco, 2018). My Health Record requires cloud computing for its smooth functioning. The adopting of cloud based solutions will make the operations and activities of healthcare sector cost effective as well as convenient (Innovative Architects, 2018).

Advantages of Cloud-based Solutions in Healthcare Sector

The advantages of cloud based solutions in healthcare sector are as follows:

Cloud computing helps to store patient’s health related data as well as images which can be accessed anytime. Electronic medical records act like a boon to the healthcare providers as well as to the patients (Saslow, 2014).

Cloud computing helps to keep the doctor updated about the condition of patients and hence patients can easily get remote consolation.

With the help of cloud computing storing as well as easily accessing the data becomes possible and hence, it boosts the research process.

Cloud helps the users to store n number of data at a very lower price (Delgado, 2016).

Automatic software updates: In cloud computing the healthcare providers or the patients need not worry about updating the software, cloud updates itself automatically (Trio Tree, 2016).

Collaboration is one of the most important factors that will be needed in My Health Record application. Cloud computing helps in synchronizing the data as well as sharing of the data in real time (Blaisdell, 2013).

So, these are some of the advantages of cloud computing though there are also some of the disadvantages that are as follows:

• Security is the most important drawback of cloud computing in the healthcare sector as the data is opened for access to the third party (Lusk, 2012).
• Another major drawback of cloud based solutions is that a strong data connection is required in order to access the information loss of internet service unable to connect with the cloud (Bone, 2017).

So, it can be said that cloud computing can help in a great manner to Commonwealth Government of India to fulfil its objective related to developing an information system that is My Health Record that will help many patients and healthcare experts to fights against diseases.

Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) can be referred to as a domain of competency that is used by the software engineers as well as information systems in order to briefly describe a process related to the planning as well as deployment of the information system (Tech Talk, 2015).

It is very easy to understand as well as follow Predictive SDLC approach. This approach allows easy budget and costs prediction as in this approach the final result is known beforehand. This approach helps to monitor and manage the process in a very simple manner as it provides with specific deliverables as well as timelines. Hence, monitoring of the development of project becomes very easy. This method provides with a specific project development lifecycle to the software developer which makes their work easier (Lewis, 2012).

The main drawback of this approach is that no working software is developed by the end of the stages of the project development. All the tests and reviews in this model are taken in the very end of the project lifecycle. If in the end it was found out that a process has been missed out than the whole effort is wasted. This is also not recommended for complex object oriented projects. This model is best suitable for only smaller projects (Mohammed, Niazi, Alshayeb, & Mahmood, 2017).

Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing Technology in Healthcare

The main advantage of this approach is that it involves the stakeholder before, during as well as after the end of every stage of the project development lifecycle. This helps in a high client collaboration and so the client is satisfied as well as is able to check the progress of the project and also is able to ensure that whether the project is being undertaken according to the needs or not. This approach provides highest transparency. This approach is well known for its high quality software developments. Because of the involvement of the client there are chances of earlier delivery of the project (Islam, 2013).

As this approach requires extensive involvement of the client a lot of time of the client is wasted in the project development through this model. Also the cost for undertaking this model is higher as it tests as well as reviews after every stage of the lifecycle. Also because of the involvement of the user the project seems to be very much bigger by the time it ends as compared to what it was expected earlier (Holcombe, 2008).

On the basis of the pros and cons of both the models it can be said that Adaptive SDLC approach should be adopted by the Commonwealth Government of Australia. This is so because the information system that is being planned by the organization involves the software related to the data and health records of the patients which is a very crucial thing. Hence, any risk cannot be taken in the development of this information system. Predictive approach does not provide the ability to test and review the project after every stage and hence this may prove risky. Adaptive offers this opportunity to the client and as this is a healthcare software it is very important that this is reviewed by the healthcare professionals during as well as after every stage of the project. So, the best model would be Adaptive SDLC Approach in this case.

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