EMRs consist of critical, highly sensitive private information in healthcare, and need to be frequently shared among peers. EMR data management and sharing systems facilitate secure and trustable ways for different actors to read and write EMRs to the system. These systems should ensure privacy, security, availability, and fine-grained access control over EMR data. EMRs include prescriptions, lab reports, bills, and any other paper-based record that you can find in hospitals.
In general, an EMR data management and sharing system allow doctors to issue digital prescriptions, pharmacies to pull prescriptions based on a patient's identity, labs to issue digital reports, patients to see all their records and share them with others, and so on.Â
