Mental Health in Digital India- EHR Perspective

Abstract

Noble mental health improves self-assurance and self-confidence and enables a person to love and motivate other people, daily life and surroundings. In this era of globalization, to maintain the mental health of society, it is necessary to adopt technological advancement and grow various mental health faculties. Digital India initiative of Government of India (GoI) for healthcare is taking a momentum through the new guidelines, policies and regulations. Use of EHR and EMR has been an important aspect to manage patient health information. NMHS discovered that approximately 80% of individuals affected had not received any type of care after the start of their disorder. The ill-health associated with these illnesses were severe in nearly 0.7% to 28.2% of individuals along with the significant socioeconomic effect on individuals who are affected. As its well-known psychiatric treatment is last longer as per the patient’s prognosis and maintaining psychiatric patients record for long years is a crucial task by the patient’s self and his caregivers. EHR serves as a well-documented record for patient’s official treatment records & can be used for shielding malpractice, regulatory action or ethics complaint. MoHFW, GoI took national membership of SNOMED International and made SNOMED CT clinical terminology offered free-for-use in India. National Release Centre (NRC) for SNOMED CT was set up for pervasive acceptance and support of SNOMED CT in the nation. We may suggest that eHealth and EHR standard enabled clinical applications can improve rendering mental health services to patients and society.