Electronic Health Records for improved healthcare!

In the present days, healthcare is characterized by a continuous decision-making process, that requires timely and secure access to complete, accurate, and up-to-date patient information, as well as to the accumulated wide-ranging body of medical knowledge. The most essential aspect of this need is the modern national initiative to develop and implement Electronic Health Records (EHRs). 

• Electronic health records and data sharing will not only improve quality of health, reduce costs, and decrease medical errors but also give immediacy and accessibility to healthcare providers, which is a significant benefit for the patients. Adoption of electronic health record systems are critical and necessary components for advance healthcare, and EHR systems are the fundamental building blocks for any national health information system.

Informatics: An inventive approach for optimal healthcare!

Development of efficient health information systems requires understanding of medical informatics, the systematic application of information and computer science technology to health practice, research and learning. Medical informatics is the swiftly growing scientific field that bond with resources, devices, and formalized methods for optimizing the storage, retrieval and management of biomedical information for problem solving and decision making.

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m-health and the future of healthcare

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), among 57 countries, generally in the developing countries, there is a serious shortage in healthcare workers, representing a total deficit of 2.4 million healthcare workers worldwide. WHO Health specialists note that within the next 10 to 15 years, policymakers and health providers in developing countries will be enforced to turn their focus to prevention and early detection rather than late-stage treatment of non-communicable diseases. This gap produces a foreseeable interventional role for mobile technology for health. Mobile for health – m-Health broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies in healthcare delivery systems. A definition used at the 2010 m-Health Summit of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) was “the delivery of healthcare services via mobile communication devices”.

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ICT for sustainable democracy and good governance

“The constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.” – Patrick Henry 

In democracy, the State is the servant of the people. It executes many functions essential for the wellbeing and development of its citizens and provides an array of essential services. ICT makes it possible for government and citizens to connect each other and to introduce government transparency and accountability, thus giving citizens the ability to participate in a way that makes representative democracy more effective and accessible. In the 21st century and in the age of information technology government must be efficient, effective, participative, honest, transparent, professional, responsive, and collaborative if they desire to achieve the goals of socially equitable economic growth and sustainable human development. The Government of Pakistan must not only play a critical role in the development of the on-line world but also need to incorporate and adapt policies and technologies that will expand participatory democracy.

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