The system will store the EHR of all citizens who access the health system, each of whom will have a unique identity number. A central data server will hold the health data of all citizens, collected at all levels of interaction within the health system, including the data collected by the health field workers during house visits. Rs.96-crore scheme for developing electronic demographic database, health recordsThe Health Department’s e-health project for developing an electronic demographic database and electronic health records (EHRs) of a population, alongside end-to-end automation of all government hospitals, is now ready to be rolled out. A clinician attached to any hospital in the health system can access the centralised database or the EHRs if he has the patient’s unique ID. The software produced by a consortium led by Hewlett Packard, who had won the contract for the project in an open tender, is being tested now.

Source: The Hindu June 13, 2016 00:11 UTC