In Addition To Mandatory Health Facilities Using Electronic Medical Record, Patient Data In Indonesia Will Enter The Ministry Of Health's Late 2023 SEZ Platform

Illustration of health care facilities (faskes) implementing electronic medical records. (Unsplash-Irwan Iwe)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) reminded that electronic medical records (RME) must be implemented by health care facilities (faskes) no later than December 31, 2023.

Expert Staff of the Minister for Health Technology as well as the Chief of Digital Transformation Office (DTO) of the Ministry of Health, Setiaji, explained that this regulation change was based on the provisions of the Minister of Health Regulation Number 24 of 2022 concerning Medical Record.

"Fasyankes must implement RME. It is regulated that no later than December 31, 2023, namely in Article 45, must digitize or must record medical records electronically," Setiaji said in a virtual press conference at the Ministry of Health, Friday 9 September.

The regulation also requires that RME be integrated with the KARSEHAT platform belonging to the Ministry of Health and Care to Protect.

He ensured that the contents of the patient's RME documents remained in effect with the principle of secrecy which each party had access to must maintain its secret.

The opening of the contents of the RME itself is necessary through approval, continued Setiaji, except in certain cases such as an order from the court.

The electronic medical record data will be stored for 25 years from the last visit.

"With this regulation and then the implementation of medical records, of course, this will be able to provide extraordinary benefits," he said, quoted by Antara.

Some examples of the benefits obtained, said Setiaji, are improving service quality in the form of ease of getting the results of rapid diagnosis, cost efficiency, time and energy, easy access to government health programs. "And create a strong national health system," he concluded.