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e-health activities at the national level across the
areas of governance, standards development, IT
capability development, adoption programs and
network access. The Australian Government has
funded a plan to provide broadband internet ac-
cess to over 98% of Australian businesses and
residents (Nehta, 2008). This is a solid foundation
for a CREHS that works nationally-wide, utilizing
national infrastructure for e-healthcare and the
national co-efforts of e-healthcare stakeholders.
Firstly, national standards for e-healthcare security
with important elements such as identification,
authentication, authorization, and data encryption
on transmission and storage need to be developed.
In a long term, a standard for the interoperability
between e-healthcare systems is an important ele-
ment allowing patient e-health records located in
different healthcare centers to be accessed via any
e-healthcare systems by the right people at the right
time. Successful development and implementa-
tion of these elements together with a CREHS at
the national level will radically change the way
patients interact with doctors, the way doctors
work, and the quality of healthcare services.
quality and frequency between patients and health-
care professionals via a CREHS will also result
in better quality of treatment. A CREHS will also
help reduce time for a patient's condition tracking
and diagnosis, time for information exchanges, and
treatment time thanks to more precise and detailed
information collected by the system. In the course
of treatment, important physiological parameters
on patients can be collected 24 per days, stored,
and analyzed by the system. These automated
tasks significantly reduce potential human errors
encountered when the tasks are performed again
and again by healthcare specialists. The stored
information can be retrieved and used for further
researches on improving treatment quality.
Improvement in heath information manage-
ment, cost control, and operational effectiveness
in healthcare services will be achieved thanks to
the reduction in repetitious and inefficient manual
processes, reduction in fragmentation and dupli-
cation of healthcare data, and faster information
processing by automated systems. Most processes
from a patient's physiological parameter captur-
ing, and information transmitting and storing are
fully automated. Labor costs will be reduced in
many of these operational processes. Automatic
data validation will remove identified errors in
data measured by sensors or mistakes made by
incorrect procedures. This significantly reduces
the number of potential errors normally caused
by human mistakes. Moreover, the centralized
model of a CREHS will remove fragmentation
and duplication of health data records.
Better management of Epilepsy will be
achieved through a centralized shared decision
support module in a CREHS. This module will be
developed from shared expertise from Epilepsy
specialists nationally and internationally. Epilepsy
specialists will be able to work far more efficiently
and effectively thanks to capability to quickly lo-
cate and process necessary patient health records
from a CREHS, which is many times faster than
locating paper-based records. This addresses one
of the most critical issues in healthcare services
Applications and Benefits of a
CREHS for Remote Detection and
Prediction of Epileptic Seizures
A CREHS for remote detection and prediction of
epileptic seizures will provide real-time reports
of pre-ictal and ictal state on Epilepsy patients 24
hours/day. Anticipated seizure information is sent
to family members and healthcare professionals
to enable provision of assistance to patients to
overcome the seizures when they occur. Therefore,
the system provides pervasive healthcare services
to Epilepsy patients whereby healthcare services
are available to them at right time.
In the future, a CREHS will bring equity for all
Australian Epilepsy patients in terms of healthcare
services by enabling better access to health care
services in remote, rural and disadvantaged com-
munities. The improvement in the communication
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