Recent Trends in Electronics and Communication 2013 |
Foundation of Computer Science USA |
RTEC - Number 1 |
December 2013 |
Authors: Arvind Rehalia, S V A V Prasad |
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Arvind Rehalia, S V A V Prasad . National Identification Number, Integration of Pathology Laboratory, Cloud Computing and mHealth. Recent Trends in Electronics and Communication 2013. RTEC, 1 (December 2013), 1-7.
Medical services are the most vital services for all of the people around the world. Provision of health care services has increased in recent years but still there is acute scarcity of the specialists and health services and health care providers. So there is need of wireless technology in the health services like telemedicine, mHealth etc. . Still in various areas the health records are of paper type which are having the chances of getting lost and are available at different places. So this brings in the need for centralized health records system that are called electronic Health Records. In this paper we will be focusing on the benefits and role of mHealth in providing health services to the society and its brief integration with the national identification number bring above . The use of electronic health records offers significant benefits in health care units. Direct access to patient history, lab test, reports, and imaging from the point of care eliminates the delay required for medical attendants to dispatch and retrieve records from distant locations.