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

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.