Dr. CP Wong is chairman of the eHealth Consortium and a doctor at a public hospital in the SAR. He shares his views around the importance of electronic health records, its impact to the general public, and how government, private sector and the general public can work together to realize better healthcare service thru a national eHealth strategy.
In line with the global healthcare industry progress, Singapore, Hong Kong and other nations will be developing its National Electronic Health Records (EHR) exchange platform development
In an effort to support the Hong Kong Government's strategy of digitizing patient record as part of the overall goal of improving patient care, the eHealth Consortium, formed to bring together clinicians from both the private and public sectors, medical informatics professionals and the IT industry to further promote IT in healthcare in Hong Kong. Dr. CP Wong and Pascal Tse discuss the relevance of the eHealth Validation Platform Project to private healthcare practitioners in Hong Kong.
Discussions around electronic health records or the digitization of patient records are often focused around what the government is doing to introduce eHR into a country. Dr. C.P. Wong and Mr. Pascal Tse, share their views on what eHR means to the private sector. Dr. Wong is co-chairman of the eHealth Consortium, a non-profit organization in Hong Kong that is promoting the concepts of patient record digitization. Mr. Tse is the head of IT as a private local hospital in Hong Kong - St. Teresa's Hospital.
The eHealth Consortium, through the Hong Kong Medical Association and the Hong Kong Doctors Union, conducted a questionnaire survey on the recognition and support of the Electronic Health Record (eHR) Development Program from May to June 2010.
The Advanced Medicare Research Institute (AMRI) Hospitals has awarded a USD 1M contract to iSoft Group for an electronic health record (EHR) project for six of its hospitals in India.
Personal health records (PHR) today are localized and isolated. For practitioners to be able to offer proactive, responsive and personal care to patients, PHR must become universally available to healthcare providers be they in the private or public sector, individuals in clinics or working for hospitals. Blair Butterfield, VP Global Market Strategy, eHealth Solutions at GE Health, discusses some of the operational and technical challenges that organizations and governments need to resolve for people to start realizing the benefits of universal healthcare.
The Australian Government has announced that it intends to upgrade key hospital infrastructure across Australia. One of the main areas where we will see greater integration of advanced technologies to achieve this is in creating more “digital” hospitals, especially in the development of electronic health records.
AUD$466.7 million over two years is provided to fund the creation of a personally controlled “national e-Health records system”, which will enable Australians to check their medical history and provide electronic access to others if they wish.
The Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital is one of the most modern hospitals in Hong Kong catering to the affluent population of the SAR. As part of its efforts to ensure the best possible care for its patient, the HKSH recently introduced a new patient care system called IE Buddy. Dr. Joseph Chan, Deputy Medical Superintendent and Head of Dept of Women's Health & Obstetrics, discusses the role of IE Buddy in ensuring the highest levels of patient care at the hospital.
