New Delhi - Government hospitals in Delhi will soon be getting electronic medical records (EMR) where information of every patient will be digitized and available in the hospital records, health ministry officials said here Friday.
“Private hospitals are advanced when it comes to keeping electronic medical records of patient. But public hospitals have a huge patient burden and EMR is important. We are first aiming at Safdarjung, Ram Manohar Lohia and Lady Hardinge hospitals,” Pradeep Saxena, director of the central bureau of health intelligence (CBHI), said at the inauguration of 12th annual national conference on medical records.
The EMR system helps in sharing a patient's medical history information among hospitals at the district, state or national level. The two-day conference, organised by the Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre and Health Records Association of India, focuses on new technologies for a digital database in country's hospitals.
“We are also focusing on training physicians and medical staff on how to record proper cause of death. Doctors from Delhi government hospitals are also being given this training,” Saxena added.
While EMR would help premier hospitals such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) create a patient database, the government also plans to make use of EMR in mapping disease policy.
Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre maintains EMR under its medical records department for the national cancer registry.
“Diseases such as cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and neurological disorders that fall under non-communicable diseases have already been included at the policy level. If we have accurate statistics for these diseases, our policies will become sharper,” said Jagdish Prasad, director general of health services, ministry of health.
| Other Articles: |
 |
New anti-clotting pill better at cutting stroke risk than old treatments (4th Feb, 2012) |
|
Number of drinks ‘not enough to define bingeing’ (4th Feb, 2012) |
|
HIV infections double in older population in 10 years (4th Feb, 2012) |
|
How red wine keeps us healthy (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Exercise even if intermittent improves blood glucose control for diabetics (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Delhi study shows growth in early life may predict adult bone health (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Its official! Drinking coffee cuts fibrosis risk in those with fatty liver disease (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Malaria deaths may be double than estimated (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Four in five diabetics live in developing countries (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Vitamin D deficiency may cause infertility (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Heart disease deadlier for women than cancer (3rd Feb, 2012) |
|
Massage helps ‘speed up muscle recovery’ (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
Head patch can monitor strokes better (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
Sleep deprivation can cause night-time urination in kids (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
Mumbai hospital offers tips to tackle mass casualties in terror attack (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
Purple potatoes ‘can help cut blood pressure without piling on pounds’ (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
Decaffeinated coffee may help prevent and treat memory decline (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
How vigorous exercise cuts prostate cancer progression risk (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
Horse tranquilliser ‘could make depression vanish almost instantly’ (2nd Feb, 2012) |
|
Soon, ‘twinkling’ ultrasound technology to help treat kidney stones (1st Feb, 2012) |
|
New online test aims to cut deaths from asthma attacks (1st Feb, 2012) |
|
Infant mortality rate down 3 points in India (1st Feb, 2012) |
|
Indian doctors cure Iraqi's 15-year-old 'curse' (1st Feb, 2012) |
|
Exercise can improve health and wellbeing of cancer survivors (1st Feb, 2012) |
|
Southampton Varsity claims research on vitamins could create novel drugs to combat malaria (1st Feb, 2012) |
Today : Saturday - May 26, 2012, 06:21am (GMT+5.5)
