Health ministry notifies Electronic Health Records standards 2016

The ministry said while notifying the 2013 standards it was understood that they will continue to evolve and will require revision from time to time.

The present standards represent the recommendations of the expert committee constituted by the health ministry to review the earlier notified set of standards.

These standards provide a structured overview of the key EHR standards with respect to the country's healthcare system.

"For every aspect of data or information that is part of any healthcare record system has been addressed with a short guideline regarding implementation specific to the item-in-context included.

"Various non-related recommendations from previous edition have been removed to streamline the set of standards selected and achieve harmony among them," the document said.

"A detailed recommendation on the interoperability and standards, clinical informatics standards, data ownership, privacy and security aspects, and the various coding systems are also provided," it said.