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Health Ministry to develop national electronic health record system
The system would allow patients to share their medical records across clinics, hospitals and labs.
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A medical worker takes a blood sample for a COVID-19 serological test at Pertamina Central Hospital amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Jakarta, on Dec. 16, 2020. (REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana)
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ealth Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin plans to develop a national electronic health record (EHR) system to improve the efficiency of the domestic medical industry.
Medical records are currently stored by individual medical facilities with limited ways of sharing them with each other, whether they are clinics, hospitals or labs. This means that patients need to spend more money to repeat tests, or carry hard copies of health records whenever they visit a new facility.
"We will consolidate big data of the health industry into a free platform that every hospital, every lab and everyone can use," Budi said during the Mandiri Investment Forum on Wednesday.
The minister added that patients would own their respective medical records in the EHR, and may share them with different medical facilities.
EHRs contain a person’s health information such as diagnosis, lab test results, allergies, immunization status, personal statistics such as age and weight as well as medical billing information.
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“I will issue a regulation, hopefully very soon, that all medical data will need to be digitized following a global standard,” Budi said.
