Tackling the Challenges and Preserving Privacy of EHR in India

Abstract

EHR in India was the crux of our research paper and overall study was conducted and information about the current system was derived to focus on its shortcomings. Majority of current systems in India fail to fulfill the EHR adoption rate parameters. In India, complete EHR adoption of Stage 7, which defines a system that can positively analyze to improve patient care,  currently stands at 0.5%. This portrays the dire need of EHR in India. The primary  limitations observed were lack of facilities & infrastructure, patient confidentiality. The model proposed utilizes security as the bedrock to overcome pre-existing drawbacks. The concepts of end to end encryption, hashed database, digital signatures were proposed to overcome the limitations of the current systems EHR in India. The future aim of the proposed model  is a small scale implementation to better and save lives using EHR