Hong Kong city government is embarking on a big push for computerising all health records. The first phase was launched Thursday.
Hong Kong's Secretary for Food and Health York Chow said that a population-wide electronic health records (eHR) system would serve as a fundamental infrastructure in underpinning healthcare transformation and hoped the process would be completed by 2013-14.
Southern Indian State to Digitize Patient Records
The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is digitizing all patient records in public hospitals and linking them to a central data base.
Advertisement
"With the development of eHR, patients' health information can be shared instantaneously which will in turn enable the provision of the appropriate and most timely treatments to our patients.
"Also, eHR reduces errors and unplanned admissions of patients and saves documentation time by medical professionals, which will in turn enhance the efficiency and quality of healthcare to patients," Chow said.
![Electronic Health Records For The U.S. Difficult To Do, But Could Pay Off]( "Electronic Health Records For The U.S. Difficult To Do, But Could Pay Off")
Creating an electronic health record for every American by 2014 is a big part of Obama's agenda but it may be easier said than done, CNN Money reports.
Feedback and preliminary proposals from private and non-government healthcare sectors received during the first stage will help formulating appropriate strategy to further promote eHR development and sharing in the private healthcare sector.
In the second stage, the government will engage IT professional bodies and private IT vendors to further explore the possible partnerships in developing healthcare IT solutions contributing to the development of eHR sharing, it was stated.
Source: Medindia
GPL
Electronic Health Records For The U.S. Difficult To Do, But Could Pay Off
Creating an electronic health record for every American by 2014 is a big part of Obama's agenda but it may be easier said than done, CNN Money reports.
Advertisement
Feedback and preliminary proposals from private and non-government healthcare sectors received during the first stage will help formulating appropriate strategy to further promote eHR development and sharing in the private healthcare sector.
In the second stage, the government will engage IT professional bodies and private IT vendors to further explore the possible partnerships in developing healthcare IT solutions contributing to the development of eHR sharing, it was stated.
Source: Medindia
GPL
Advertisement
Advertisement
|
Advertisement
Recommended Reading
Latest News on IT in Healthcare
Although medical implants can be life-changing, the immune system often perceives them as foreign objects.
New study states that although AI has revolutionized society, the next significant challenge is to develop Artificial Social Intelligence (ASI).
Racial bias in artificial intelligence was found to impede the key access to healthcare services, says data scientist.
Apple Hearing Study stated that 25% of participants experienced a daily average environmental sound exposure that is higher than the WHO recommended limit.
The smartphone technology to screen anemia drives long-term improvements in quality of life for a large amount of people.