We participated in the recently held Medrecon 2011 conference in Hyderabad. This is an annual national conference on Medical Records. With a view to increase our reach in the Indian market particularly for the Medical records department in the India’s leading hospitals, along with our technology partner e-bizindia participated in the event organized by Kamineni Hospitals. This event provided an opportunity for the health record professionals to enrich their knowledge, skills, technology and get updated with the latest trends in health records management. It was a unique platform to interact with each other to enhance efficiency, accuracy and get updated on the technological advancements related to medical records and health information management. There were more than 300 participants from various healthcare fields like Doctors, Medical Records Professionals, Health care Administrators, Medico-legal experts, I.T professionals from the field of Hospital information management and Document Management Software side. It was great experience meeting the experts and understanding current processes, practical challenges in deploying solutions and know the future scope of EDMS solution in the healthcare segment.
During the event scientific papers on various following topics were presented by delegates and sponsors. To name few which attracted my interest was
- Digitization of Health Records (Focus on Problems & Prospects)
- Transition from Health records to Health information management (Focus on Future vision)
- Legal Aspects of Medical Records (Focus on R.T.I.& C.P.A)
- Health records and Health insurance (Focus on tackling the challenges)
- Role of Medical Records in Health Tourism (Focus on records/data sharing)
- Initiation towards formation of National Health Record Policy & Health Records Council of India (Focus on Implementation Issues)
- Modern trends and techniques on Medical Records (Focus on present scenario)
As part of our participation, we had a booth where delegates could walk in and see our solution and engage in discussions. They walked away with information and a chart were they could record information pertaining to the medical records they handled. We also got an opportunity to present our solution on the need to digitization of paper based medical records and the importance of integrating an EDMS solution with HIS, HMIS, EMR, EHR and other applications in the organisation. During one of the panel discussions, there was a discussion on the need to work towards standardizing curriculum for Medical Record Professional. One of the delegates suggested having online examinations for Medical Record professionals which I felt was a very valid point in today’s times.
Contributed by Harshad Thakkar