Identity and Registries in a Healthcare Context

How can Electronic registries transform healthcare?

Creating Trusted Access for Healthcare Delivery:

• Access to more accurate information on health facilities and service providers, such as for an ecosystem of telemedicine apps.

• Registries for healthcare providers help in verifying the credentials and qualifications of doctors, nurses, and other medical staff, ensuring that patients receive care from qualified professionals only.

Building Resilience In a Healthcare Ecosystem:

• Policymakers will have better access to data, enabling more informed decision-making by the government.

• Health registries are essential for crisis preparedness. They provide real-time information on available resources, helping governments allocate healthcare personnel, equipment, and facilities efficiently during health-related crises.

Enabling Access to Service Delivery:

• Improved discoverability and visibility of healthcare professionals, enhancing the professional and provider practices.

• Authorised access to view patients’ health histories in a safe, secure, and cost-efficient manner

  Engage with more patients through online presence.

A country's healthcare ecosystem can include different types of registries.

• A drug registry is required to build trust if the country has a significant spurious drug problem.

• An insurers registry is key if there's a large ecosystem of private and public insurers in the country.

• An organ donor registry can help track the people who have signed up to be organ donors.

• A disease registry is useful in a country where there is a need to harmonise colloquial names and symptoms with scientific names.

While a country can build as many registries as needed depending on the context, three crucial registries are essential in the first phase for improving accessibility in healthcare by leveraging all existing players and reducing the barrier to entry for new players. These are:

• Virtual Health Address

• Health Professionals Registry

• Health Facilities Registry