Government to set up E-Health Records

Government has approved a scheme to create Electronic Health Records of patients as per information  rendered to Lok Sabha. An Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) to create the EHRs of patients in a centralised manner and to be made available nationwide online for medical history with the help of Health Information Exchange has thus been approved and is being implemented.

The objective of the IHIP is to keep the medical records of patients in digital form which could be accessed by the patient as well as providers as and when required. IHIP will be implemented in a phased manner. In phase one, IHIP will be implemented on a pilot basis in two states, two central government hospitals, AIIMS New Delhi and one private hospital by 2017. On successful implementation of the pilot phase, IHIP will be rolled out pan India.