# EHR for some billion people in India

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**Created:** 2008-12-07 22:09 UTC
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## Post #1 by @Koray_Atalag

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,

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