Guidelines to introduce uniform standards in EHRs

Government of India has issued guidelines/standards with and objective to introduce a uniform standards-based system for creation of electronic health records (EHRs) by the healthcare providers by formulation EHR Standards 2016. This uniform standard helps ensure the interoperability within different system. The ministry has set up National Resource Center for EHR Standard (NRCeS) to augment facilitation for adoption of the notified EHR Standards in technical association with Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune for providing assistance in developing, implementing, and using EHR standards effectively in healthcare information technology (IT) applications. The estimated cost is Rs 23.59 crore, out of which an amount of Rs 4 crore has been released to C-DAC, Pune for setting up of NRCeS.