New Delhi |HL
A step forward for digitalisation of healthcare data in the country the Union Health Ministry has issued new guidelines for implementation of interoperable electronic health records (EHR).
It is aim to set uniform norms for capturing, storage, retrieval, exchange, and analytics of healthcare data and information, including images and clinical codes.
Apart it puts forth guidelines for maintaining privacy and confidentiality of such information.
An EHR is a collection of various medical records that get generated during any clinical encounter or events. EHR, in line with PM Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative, will build a cloud based hospital application where real-time health data will be fed from all hospitals. This will enable the government to streamline data, better analyse health indicators and formulate strategies accordingly .
With rise of self-care and homecare devices and systems, meaningful healthcare data is constantly getting generated. Such data also have long-term clinical relevance and helps the government and healthcare agencies establish public health trends in specific areas.
Patients would not required to repeat diagnosis and similar procedures, which will translate into faster treatment at lower cost.
