NT, GBDi join hands to launch national healthcare databaseNational Telecom (NT) is joining forces with the Government Big Data Institute (GBDi) to launch a "Health Link" centralised platform to gather patients' records from around 100 hospitals to facilitate healthcare services. The platform, which leverages NT's cloud system, is expected to follow international standards for data storage and exchange. The move should make it easier for patients who transfer hospitals to share their medical records. Tiranee Achalakul, vice-president of GBDi, said hospitals normally have their own patient database systems, so exchanging information is complicated and time-consuming, which subsequently hinders cross-hospital treatment of patients. The system's health data will be encrypted throughout the data exchange process to make sure outsiders cannot access it during operations.

Source: Bangkok Post September 23, 2021 23:26 UTC