The Australian Health Care System: A Case Study

The Australian healthcare system has been evolving since the beginning of the colonisation of Australia. Today, Australia has an extremely efficient healthcare system although it still has several issues. The influencing factors, structure, and current issues of the Australian healthcare system will be throughly discussed and explained in this essay.

The following paper is based on the differences between two healthcare systems in two different countries, these systems are the Australian healthcare system which is Medicare, and England’s National health system which is known as the NHS.

The use of mobile technology in the healthcare industry has exploded in the last ten years. Mobile health or mHealth, provides an entire new aspect of the relationship between patients and their doctors and other medical providers. Mobile devices place important and critical information into a medical professional’s hands in real-time. Doctors can monitor a patient’s condition more frequently, allowing them to make better and more informed decisions and diagnoses.

The Australian health care system is a highly functioning and accessible system based on universal principles of access and equity. In this essay I will discuss the historical evolution and current structure of our health system, identifying current health service models of delivery and look at its strengths, weaknesses, policies and health priorities currently in Australia. I will discuss the roles of government and non-government health services in service provision and funding sources of Australian health. We will get a better insight of the role of standards for residential aged care and look into a broad range of professions that consumers may engage with in health service delivery, their roles and functions of each profession.

Life expectancy has increased over the last century. With this greater survival rate, there needs to be an increase in the rate of spending for Medicare. Despite what one does to improve their health behavior, the need for medical care cultivates as one ages. This need will continue to increase significantly as medicine continues to modernize.

“The Australian health care system is a highly functioning and accessible system based on universal principles of access and equity”.

As consumers utilize smartphones, tablets, and other devices for other functions like social media and email, they are starting to look at these features to assist them with their healthcare. Mobile body area network devices will be a growing trend in the coming years as a way to get patients engaged in their healthcare and also to give providers routine updates on the status of patients with chronic conditions. As DeGaspari (2014) indicates, these devices can lead to improved functionality for other devices used in hospitals, such as sensors for monitoring patients that might get up and wander or be a fall risk. Telemedicine will continue to grow as payers, providers, and patients all start to realize the mutual benefits that can be

I think that Canadian health care system can be used as guide in the U.S territories. The reason

The increasing ageing population leads the great healthcare expenditure, and it will overload the national health care system. Especially, the lack of the number of carer is one of the biggest issues in here due to ageing care needs a one-on-one treatment with 24 hours monitoring. As one of the solutions, unsupervised personal health care system has been raised using the wearable health tracking devices (WHTD) and the personal treatment devices (PTD). WHTDs are initially designed designed for simple physical activity monitoring during exercise. Its potential ability to monitor user's status without disturbing their daily life has made the WHTD as an ideal personal health monitoring tool. The current stage of the WHTD can capture essential vital

WBAN technology could provide the connectivity to support elderly people and chronic disease in managing their daily life, it also allows easy internetworking with other devices and networks, thus providing the health care worker with easy access to a patient’s critical and non-critical data. A WBAN allows continuous monitoring of the physiological parameters. Wherever the patient is despite the distance such as in the hospital, at home or in the market, the patient will no longer need to stay in hospital bed, but will be able to move around freely. Furthermore, the data obtained during a large time interval in the patient’s natural environment offers a clearer view to the doctors or nurses than data obtained during short stays at the hospital

Existing wearable health monitoring devices can be enhanced by adding adaptive biofeedback and control capability. This will transform the current wearable health monitoring devices from a passive monitoring device to a real-time treatment assistive device. Such a device is capable of not only collecting, storing, and monitoring raw and synthesised data similar to the current wearable healthcare devices, but can also provide autonomous reconfiguration, controlled treatment processes by using collected data to provide intelligent local and remote feedback with decision making. There are a large number of applications that can be benefited from such a

Wearable technologies and mobile eHealth applications have becomes very popular in the recent years. From Fitbit to My eHealth, these technologies are making it easier for people to monitor their lifestyles and health. These technologies are making is easier for people to control their health by having more access to information and the ability to look up their record without having to go into the doctor’s office. With the advancement in these technology, there is also barriers to the deployment of them. I believe the biggest barriers to deployment of wearable technologies and mobile eHealth applications are design, data collection, and lack of interoperability.

By using a mobile EKG, the hospital staff only has to connect wires to the patient once. This feature will save the caregivers time and decrease the risk of bacteria being introduced to the patient. The patient will also be “more comfortable in their beds and getting up and around” since they are free from unnecessary wires [2]. This project was motivated by the realization that wires are unnecessary given the current state of wireless communication technologies.

The field of health care remains among the most significant study areas around the globe. Health care society ensures that every individual within the society is provided with the most efficient and effective health care, this will increase their ability to participate in the national building. New Zealand is among the nations that have put great efforts in providing high-quality health care to its citizens. The New Zealand healthcare system has gone through a number of significant changes for the last few decades. In the 19th and 20th century, the sector was entirely a public system but various reforms have been introduced in the 21st century. This various reforms leading to the creation of a diversified public-private system for health care delivery. Among the sectors that have gone through a lot of transformations is the nursing sector. The government of New Zealand has worked a lot to ensure the provision of quality health care. To ensure the achievement of this, the government has increased the number of nurses in the country. In addition, the salaries among other remunerations for the nurses have also been increased to ensure high-quality services for the New Zealand citizens. This paper seeks to critically examine the historical development of health care leadership in New Zealand.

The University of Twente and partners have been developing mobile health systems based on Body Area Networks (WBANs) since 2001. A number of WBANs and a BAN service platform targeted at the healthcare domain were developed during the course of several European and Dutch projects. We define a health BAN as a network of communicating devices (sensors, actuators, multimedia devices etc.). A BAN for health monitoring incorporates one or more sensors capturing bio-signals, which are transmitted to a remote healthcare location for viewing by health professionals.