We at 21st Century Health, believe, that more than the HMS which primarily handles Administrative, Accounting and Materials related information and is implemented by non-medical staff, it is the proper implementation of Electronic Patient Records by Medical Fraternity (consisting of Physicians, Surgeons, Radiologists, Pathologists, Nurses) that can dramatically improve the productivity of Hospitals and Medical Centers and quality of medical treatment across the world. In addition, there was a wide spread need to reduce, if not totally eliminate, the amount of medical errors.

Which is why, at 21st Century Health R & D, there is great emphasis to constantly innovate and improve the data capturing of EMR data by integrating our systems with bar coding systems, smart cards, emerging technologies like Infra-red E-pens, wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and blue-tooth, smart cards, etc and recommending improved processes, which are convenient to the medical fraternity. The EMR system also provides for various alerts and alarms, which get triggered based on pre-set information.

The 21st Century EMR system broadly consists of :

• Patient Consultation (History, Clinical Examination, Investigations, Diagnosis, Treatment, Procedure Notes, Letters & Certificates, etc.)
• Investigation Reports (Waveforms – ECG, EEG) (Images - X-Ray, CT, MRI, Endoscopy, USG) (Pathological Investigations – Biochemistry, Microbiology, Serology, Histopathology, Pathology)
• Treatment Details (Progress Notes, Operation Notes, Anaesthetist Notes, Discharge Summary)
• Images, Diagrams, Charts and Pictures

The 21st Century Health approach in developing the Electronic Patients Records is to enable hospitals to provide best possible healthcare to patients, by capturing holistic information about the patient and making this information available to service providers whenever needed to plan and execute appropriate treatment. The technical shell has been provided by 21st Century, which is quite flexible to meet the ever changing needs of the medical fraternity.

The 21st Century EMR knowledge shell over the EMR engine has actually been created by a team of highly experienced doctors and MHAs using internationally accepted Medical books like Hutchinson’s Clinical Methods. As medical practice is both a science as well as an art, we believe that no two doctors within a same speciality agree on the same clinical pathways. Thus, the challenge has been to design doctor specific screens and has been done by our team of experienced doctors for use of doctors.