{"id":422,"date":"2020-05-26T19:14:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:58:51","slug":"government-rules-guidelines-ehr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/government-rules-guidelines-ehr","title":{"rendered":"Government rules and Guidelines on EHR."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"422\" class=\"elementor elementor-422\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8556a1f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8556a1f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-01ef25a\" data-id=\"01ef25a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3056495 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3056495\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3a551f2\" data-id=\"3a551f2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9eaa7ff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9eaa7ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h3>That in common instances implies,&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p>If a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/app\/doctors\/search\/speciality\/general-physician\" target=\"_blank\">physician&nbsp;<\/a>attends to 20 patients in a day, that&#8217;s around 500 patients in a month. So, a total of approximately 18,000 records needs to be maintained for the course of 3 years. The traditional method of keeping records that is followed in most of the hospitals across India is the manual method involving papers and books. There are serious limitations of manual record keeping including the need for large storage areas and difficulties in the retrieval of records. Unlike electronic medical records stored on cloud servers, paper medical records need physical space for storage purposes.<\/p>\n<p>What do you do if there\u2019s a fire that wipes out all your physical files? Or a moth infestation that, quite literally, eats up all your data? Paper records need to be in a moisture-free environment. Physical files, once lost, are impossible to recover. How to catalog these physical records is again a major issue. An electronic system doesn\u2019t have these problems as&nbsp; records aren\u2019t handwritten, so the legibility issue isn\u2019t an issue at all. Plus you don\u2019t have to search for patient files in a physical cabinet, while the software does that for you instantly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All and all physical record keeping requires involvement of huge costs as compared to electronic records. These costs may be of physical files, books, storage closet, physical space etc.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8efd7c1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8efd7c1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-835fc12\" data-id=\"835fc12\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f120d3f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f120d3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"627\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Govt.-EHR.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-424\" alt=\"Govt. EHR\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Govt.-EHR.png 627w, https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Govt.-EHR-300x106.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" loading=\"eager\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f6c3401 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f6c3401\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-366eaf8\" data-id=\"366eaf8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97a128a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"97a128a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Why still adamantly use paper in the era of Digitalization?\u00a0<\/h3><p>Paper production is the third most energy-intensive of all manufacturing industries, using over 12% of all energy in the industrial sector.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/outlooks\/ieo\/pdf\/industrial.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u207d\u00b2\u207e<\/a> The Institute of Medicine (IoM) implemented a research-study on paper record utilization in 1991. The conclusions from this report particularly endorsed the utilization of EHR as one of seven key recommendations for improving patient records, and to propose a means of converting paper to electronic records.<\/p><p><br \/>In the United States by 2004, the need to change over clinical records to EHRs was perceived broadly with the production of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) of Health Information Technology (IT). Soon after, EHRs were consolidated into the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), giving &#8220;higher installments to health care providers that meet &#8216;significant use&#8217; measures, which include utilizing EHR for applicable purposes and meeting certain innovative necessities.&#8221; HIPAA guidelines were changed in accordance with electronic secured well-being data (ePHI) that was being kept up by these EHRs.<\/p><p><br \/>Today, the world sees the EHR as a safe and powerful instrument for keeping up a patient&#8217;s healthcare data information, for speaking with patients and different suppliers, and for supporting the patient-doctor relationship. Gone are the days of rearranging through paper documents, sitting tight for faxes, or scanning for desk work to have the option to give quality consideration to patients.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a2e1a60 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a2e1a60\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-14273e4\" data-id=\"14273e4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ac937d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5ac937d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Govt.-EHR-2.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-425\" alt=\"Govt. EHR\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Govt.-EHR-2.png 627w, https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Govt.-EHR-2-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" loading=\"eager\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7c2977c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7c2977c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-013d7b0\" data-id=\"013d7b0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e6fae6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4e6fae6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>The Government of India took cognizance!<\/h3><p>Under the <a href=\"http:\/\/clinicalestablishments.gov.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clinical Establishments(Registration and Regulation) Act,2010<\/a> which was assigned\u00a0 to regulate all clinical establishments in India, it has mentioned the mandating of digital record keeping. So much so that the Government of India intends to introduce a uniform system for maintenance of Electronic Medical Records \/ Electronic Health Records (EMR \/ EHR) by the Hospitals and healthcare providers in the country. An Expert committee was set up to develop EMR \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrces.in\/download\/files\/pdf\/nrces_ehr_stand_india.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EHR Standards<\/a> for adoption \/ implementation in the country. Pertaining to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/health-feeds\/category\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0crisis, the GoI allowed Telemedicine and issued guidelines by the ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW), on March 25, 2020.\u00a0<\/p><p>Like they say it, \u201c<em>Longevity is to reinvent yourself or invent the future.<\/em>\u201d So, it seems pretty clear by all this that the future is digital. The traditional methods of record keeping are going to fade off and become obsolete. Only to be replaced by more efficient, faster and effective methods of electronic record keeping. So now is the time when you can switch to the futuristic ways of maintaining EHRs.\u00a0<\/p><p>Thus, with the use of electronic health records (EHR) through a sophisticated tool such as <a href=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DigiQure<\/a>, one does not only has access to vital administrative operations such as <em>Appointment Scheduling, Digital Prescription, Dynamic Website like Doctor\u2019s profile page, Electronic Health Records, Billing &amp; Payments, Patient Follow-ups &amp; Medicine Reminders, Diagnostic Lab &amp; Pharmacy Management, Analytics &amp; Reports etc<\/em>. But also this data is all the time available to be accessed from anywhere anytime from an absolutely secure cloud storage of Amazon Web Services.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEvery physician shall maintain the medical records pertaining to his\/her indoor patients for a period of three years from the date of commencement of the treatment.\u201d The Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 That in common instances implies,&nbsp; If a&nbsp;physician&nbsp;attends to 20 patients in a day, that&#8217;s around 500 patients in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/government-rules-guidelines-ehr\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Government rules and Guidelines on EHR.<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digiqure.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}