ABOUT NATIONAL ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM (NEHR)

The NEHR is the national repository that collects and stores a copy of your selected health information across different healthcare providers. It contains important details about your medical history that healthcare professionals would generally need to make more informed medical decisions and deliver safe and better care.

It provides secure access to a patient’s summary health record by authorised clinicians and healthcare professionals to:

• Enable greater coordination and informed decision-making.
• Support more accurate diagnosis, better treatment, and patient-centric integrated care.
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The goal of the NEHR is for patients to enjoy hassle-free healthcare delivery, higher quality of care, fewer duplicate or unnecessary tests and/ or referrals, reduced medical errors and adverse drug events.

To ensure security and confidentiality of patient's health information while the best care is provided, the NEHR enforces measures to authenticate, authorise and audit healthcare institutions and users’ access to patient's health record.

• Patient demographics
• Admission and visit history
• Discharge summaries
• Laboratory test results
• Radiology results
• Medication history
• History of surgeries or procedures
• Allergies and adverse drug reactions
• Healthier SG information
• COVID-19 records
  
   

Currently, all public healthcare institutions (such as restructured hospitals, polyclinics, community hospitals and specialty centres) and private hospitals have access to the information in the NEHR. Private healthcare institutions (such as GPs and specialist centres), nursing homes and relevant government agencies are progressively being onboarded for access. The list of healthcare institutions participating in the NEHR can be found  here.

The NEHR is owned by the Ministry of Health of Singapore and managed by Synapxe, Singapore's HealthTech Agency.

The NEHR is a central repository which draws information from various contributing Health Information Management Systems (HIMS) and organises them in a summarised form which authorised clinicians and healthcare professionals can access.

With the backend system-to-system integration, the data contributed to the NEHR would be the same data entered at source. Therefore, any correction or updating of data would need to be done at contributing source. Data on the NEHR system is date-time stamped so it would be clear when the information was last updated.

While the NEHR serves as an excellent resource for healthcare professionals to support them in patient care, the patient needs to play their part by providing additional information, such as if they are consuming other medication bought from pharmacies or if they sought medical treatment overseas or if treatment was performed by clinics that have not started data contribution to the NEHR.