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. 2014 Jul 1;11(Summer):1b.
eCollection 2014.

Electronic health records and information portability: a pilot study in a rural primary healthcare center in India

Kedar Radhakrishna  1 , B Ramakrishna Goud  2 , Arvind Kasthuri  3 , Abijeet Waghmare  4 , Tony Raj  5
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Electronic health records and information portability: a pilot study in a rural primary healthcare center in India

Kedar Radhakrishna et al. Perspect Health Inf Manag. .

Abstract

Clinical documentation and health information portability pose unique challenges in urban and rural areas of India. This article presents findings of a pilot study conducted in a primary health center in rural India. In this article, we focus on primary care in rural India and how a portable health record system could facilitate the availability of medical information at the point of care. We followed a geriatric cohort and a maternal cohort of 308 participants over a nine-month period. Physician encounters were entered into a web-based electronic health record. This information was made available to all study participants through a short messaging service (SMS). Additionally, 135 randomly selected participants from the cohort were issued a USB-based memory card that contained their detailed health records and could be viewed on most computers. The dual portability model implemented in the pilot study demonstrates the utility of the concept.

Keywords: SMS; electronic health record (EHR); health information portability; health information technology; portable health record; primary care.

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USB-based Memory Card
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System Workflow
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Disease Conditions among the Geriatric Study Population Abbreviations: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; DM, diabetes mellitus.
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