Hi to All,
I was thinking about the feasibility of a single consolidated EHR
repository for Turkey (70+ million people)...And it seemed ridiculous to
me. I am now in New Zealand (appx 4 million I guess) and this is still
a hot issue whether to acquire Epic here and forget about
interoperability...BUT even in such a tiny country authorities here
have started to turn away from this... Just when I was thinking about
this I came across the following article:
http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/444/656/
Developing a Distributed (?) Electronic Health-Record Store for India
The project partners are SICS and the Indian Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing (C-DAC), where SICS is responsible for the
distributed storage aspects of the project, while C-DAC will work
towards evolving an EHR standard for India. The project will embrace
both open-source technology and open standards to ensure that
information is managed and secured in an accountable and transparent
manner. We are not aware of any existing government-run information
system that manages the enormous number of users that would be stored in
an Indian EHR information store....
Outcomes might be interesting for all...Maybe we are wrong?
Cheers,