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[August 06, 2004] " Technology: Electronic Medical Records Exchange (EMRX) System." By Lai Ee Na. From CNet Asia (August 06, 2004). "By the end of 2004, all seven public hospitals, seventeen (17) polyclinics and six specialist centers in Singapore will share more than the hospital in-patient discharge summaries, including prescriptions, treatments and allergies. The Health Ministry intends to have the institutions, grouped under the National Healthcare Group (NHG) and Singapore Health Services (SingHealth), share outpatient records, X-rays and laboratory reports via a centralized platform. The platform in question is the Electronic Medical Records Exchange (EMRX) system, launched in April 2004. 'It is the crossover point where for example, a patient is discharged from an NHG hospital and follows up at a SingHealth polyclinic, we need to share information. EMRX enables this by allowing SingHealth to draw on information stored in NHG systems, and vice versa,' said NHG chief information officer, Linus Tham. Associate professor Goh Lee Gan from the National University of Singapore's department of community, occupational and family medicine said: "The development of the ability to scan documents in readable formats such as XML (Extensible Markup Language) means that a truly paperless record is possible. If you want an ECG report to be part of the medical records, just digitalize it in XML and it can go into the medical records. Photographs can be treated the same way. Heart and lung sounds [will] be digitalized too and stored in EMR'..." General references in "XML in Clinical Research and Healthcare Industries."
[August 05, 2004] "IBM, Mayo Team On Broad Health-Care IT Initiative." By Nancy Weil. In InfoWorld (August 05, 2004). "IBM and Mayo Clinic are teaming on a broad technology initiative aimed at speeding IT advances related to patient care and medical research that for the first time uses the Blue Gene supercomputer for one of its original stated aims — large-scale mathematical modeling to better understand gene and protein structures and how they interact. The wide-ranging initiative started with the integration of 4.4 million patient records that had been in various incompatible formats into a system that has security and privacy features built in and that complies with federal regulations..." General references in "XML in Clinical Research and Healthcare Industries."


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