Abstract:

By reviewing and analysing the related information, literature and government reports on the development of UK electronic health records, this paper intends to gain experiences on the issues of basic information collection, archive creation, reservation and maintenance, and information review process. Moreover, current problems on ineffective budget control, projects delay, and community cultural conflicts are also reviewed and analysed in this paper, in order to articulate and provide useful suggestions to the construction of digital health records in China.

Key words: Digital health records, 　Digitisation, 　Digital health information,    , Information resource preservation