Developing a Distributed Electronic Health-Record Store for India. There has been much recent interest in information services that offer to manage an individual's healthcare records in electronic form, with systems such as Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health receiving widespread media attention.
These systems are, however, proprietary and fears have been expressed over how the information stored in them will be used. In relation to these developments, countries with nationalized healthcare systems are also investigating the construction of healthcare information systems that store Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for their citizens.
Electronic Health Records for the more than one billion citizens of India. Photo: Staffan Truvé The DIGHT (Distributed Information store for Global Healthcare Technology) project is addressing the challenges of building a scalable and highly reliable information store for EHRs for the citizens of India. The requirements for our EHR storage system include: Link: Electronic Medical Records - Asia gets ready, Madhav Ragam, IBM Asia Pacfic - Interview - Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), or computer-based medical records of patients, have already gained importance in the western world with governments taking up initiatives to implement them across the nations.
Comparatively, in Asia, esp. in countries like India and China, there is a long way to go before the benefits of EMRs can be realised. Madhav Ragam Director Healthcare & LifesciencesIBM Asia Pacific 1. High costs of implementing EMRs have been a major worry for hospitals in the west of late. As a leading developer of archiving software for healthcare, what are IBM's views on this? The return for hospitals to invest in an electronic medical record solution far outweighs the initial cost of implementing the systems. IBM is very confident that we have the healthcare industry experience and technology expertise to assist hospitals in ensuring that their electronic medical record investment reaps the benefits they are seeking. 2. Here are other critical success factors to keep in mind: 3. Medical records go digital in India. Medical history, health information of patients are digitised and uploaded to a secure online account.
Maintaining digitised personal health records for customers, not a new domain overseas, is only now catching on among the desi diaspora. The management of personal health records is a tedious task, which is why digitisation is being offered as a viable alternative. While service providers like Microsoft and Google have already entered this sector, a few India players are also eyeing it. So, what is personal health information management? Under it, the medical history and health information of patients are first digitised and then uploaded to a secure online account by the service provider, after which the customer can e-mail, access and share the same with a doctor. In India, there are entities like Noida’s Myhealthrecords.in, the Bangalore-based Yos Technologies and the new-born Pune-based ArogyaDarpan, among others.
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