face to face
“Predictive algorithms have
potential to drastically
improve hospital efficiency”
The Centre for Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics (PRaDA) of
Deakin University, Australia has been using data insights to address
real-world problems through efficient usage of Electronic Medical
Records (EMR), which would transform the healthcare system. In a
freewheeling conversation with the BioVoice News, Professor Svetha
Venkatesh, Director, PRaDA shared her insights on the potential
of EMR systems in tackling various health related issues besides
the partnership with Max Healthcare to focus on data analytics for
healthcare management in India. Read the excerpts:
BY RAHUL KOUL
How old is the
Electronic Medical
Records (EMR)
system and how do
we maintain the
standards?
Electronic Medical
Records are not new
but fairly recent.
These are the wealth
of information and
essentially the journey
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of people through
hospitals. The patients
come to the hospitals,
and then what happens
to them there, their
experiences and what
kind of treatment they
undergo. It is basically
the journey of patients
i.e. arrival, diagnosis
and treatment
which gets recorded
electronically.
There is a world
agency that regulates
the standard of these
medical records
and currently is
called International
Classification of
Disease-10, which
is the tenth revised
version. Therefore, the
EHR software have to
ensure compliance to
ICG-10.