Signal Processing and Information Technology. First International Joint Conference, SPIT 2011 and IPC 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 1-2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Synchronization of Health Informatics with “AADHAAR” (UID: Unique Identification)

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-32573-1_34,
        author={Nitin Vohra and N. Jain},
        title={Synchronization of Health Informatics with “AADHAAR” (UID: Unique Identification)},
        proceedings={Signal Processing and Information Technology. First International Joint Conference, SPIT 2011 and IPC 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 1-2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={SPIT \& IPC},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={Hospital Management Information System(HMIS) UID AADHAAR EHR EMR LUCENE HI (Health Informatics)},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-32573-1_34}
    }
    
  • Nitin Vohra
    N. Jain
    Year: 2012
    Synchronization of Health Informatics with “AADHAAR” (UID: Unique Identification)
    SPIT & IPC
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32573-1_34
Nitin Vohra1,*, N. Jain1,*
  • 1: Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India
*Contact email: nitinvohra@cdac.in, nkjain@cdac.in

Abstract

Healthcare providers are facing challenges to make unique EMRacross hospitals. In existing scenarios there is no concept of centralized repository and no mechanism to map records. To prevent duplicity of records various checks are available in rolled out applications but it depends on information keyed. Slight deviation in records may lead to duplicate registration. This ’identity silos’ increase overall cost of identification and extreme inconvenience. WHO provide HL7 standards to exchange data between heterogeneous applications, but most of applications do not support HL7. In all scenarios the aim to maintain Unique EMR is lost. It can be prevented by identify a compulsory field which is unique to identify patient record. With the advent of AADHAAR we can check the duplicity of record and get EMR according to unique IDacross hospitals. Since AADHAAR is not mandatory in Hospital applicationsbecause ofguidelines, as a challenge we introduced UID in GNCTD, PGIMER and AROGYA Hospital projects.