Short Report About the Inpatient Health Services Standards in Electronic Health Records.

Dear editor,

One of the necessities in each health service provider is quality assurance. Accessibility to patients’ information is one of the most important factors for this goal and Electronic Health Records (EHR) does that. In this short review letter we provide a minimum data set template for Medical Tourism EHR in developing countries because of needed infrastructure in these countries. The collected data were classified based on popular use included demographic and clinical data such as diagnosis, and treatment. Such records are capable documents to store, retrieve, and transfer through the computer application. In addition, EHR can use by physician far from their patients simultaneously. Of course this tool needs infrastructure, platform, and applications as well (1, 2, 3). According to the results of this short review, the standards of Electronic Health Records have divided into four subcategories: Lexicon, Structure-content, Exchange messages and Health care confidence (4). The original set of data elements by the national health department for collecting and reporting required at the national level agreed (5). The results of comparison showed that database designing based on the documentary belongs to Health Information Standards Organization (HISO) Version 1.2, is efficient for better integration between the Islamic-Countries (6, 7). According to our review, HISO provides comprehensive e-Standards for several projects in some countries such as New Zealand (8) where one of the key elements of promotion in this project is localization and customization of the original pattern on medical records, according to HL7 and DICOM standards (9, 10). It seems can be considered a good regional instrument for integration between health service providers.