Shared Health Record (EN)

Shareable Health Record (SHR) system in Bangladesh

Welcome to the Shareable Health Record (SHR) system in Bangladesh, a revolutionary platform committed to reshaping the healthcare landscape in Bangladesh ensuring interoperability based on standards and registries for both the public and private sectors.

The Shareable Health Record (SHR) system is a Centralized Digital system of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that identifies each citizen with Basic info and demography, can fetch their Visits & service records from different points of Care, Generate Personal Health Profile and share medical records on demand with consent.

Vision

Ensuring access to affordable, quality, accurate and compatible healthcare services at low cost, in less time, through the implementation of digital health systems among health service providers for the purpose of ensuring civil rights.

Digitization process started in Bangladesh after 2009. The promotion and spread of information technology in the country and its use is gradually increasing, which touches the health sector and moves towards the implementation of digital health. Management Information System – MIS under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) established the digital infrastructure to the facilities under DGHS.  Devices and internet connectivity are provided to all health care facilities including community clinics in rural villages. The community health workers also got PDA for house hold data collection. An international quality data center has been set up in the MIS building of the Directorate of Health in Dhaka. The Digital Health Strategy has already been approved.  In continuation of this progress, the hospital automation system started in 2012 for the implementation of shareable health record (SHR).

  • To Establish functioning Hospital Management System across all health institutions and online appointment and e-ticketing system.
  • To Declare National Health Care Standards for interoperability.
  • To ensure the use of National registries like-Facility Registry, Provider registry, Geo Location Registry, and Patient Registry.
  • To connect all Health care Facilities to the SHR system
  • To ensure Data security and Privacy
  • To Establish Health Card for All (with a Unique Health ID Number)
  • To give access to citizen to their Personal Health profile.

In the Public sector, they have IT infrastructure. All the facilities have computers, Printers, Laptops, Internet connectivity both mobile and broadband. Community workers use PDAs with connectivity.

It will –

  • Helps to build Citizen-Centric Digital Healthcare Ecosystem
  • Helps to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and Targets
  • Helps to establish Universal Health Coverage (UHC)
  • Decrease out-of-pocket expenditure: Reuse of Lab & others Reports.
  • Strengthen Health Systems
  • Strong Referral System

It will Increase-

  • Transparency
  • Quality and Number of Service
  • Accuracy And availability of Data
  • Patient Care Efficiency
  • Supervision and Monitoring Efficiency
  • Evidence-Based Policy Making.
  • Maintaining Patient’s Privacy 
  • Physicians’ safety, Helps Doctors in Decision-making
  • Citizen’s Satisfaction and Faith in Health Systems and Services

It will Reduce-

  • Corruption
  • Fraud
  • Workload
  • Human Error
  • Patients 
  • Time, 
  • Visits and
  • Costs (Reuse of Lab & others Reports)
  • Hospital Automation System
  • Centralized Unique ID system- Health ID
  • Health Information Exchange: e-Health standards and registries
  • EHR- Personal Health Profile (PHP)
  • Data Security and Privacy
  • API integration and Documentation
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