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Electronic Health Record is normally seen as repository of aggregate clinical and demographic information fed by point of source systems from different care settings. But the infrastructures associated with the EHR are being used to perform other ancillary functions such as facilitating the data exchange between the different point of the source systems. A classic example is the exchange of patient data between two systems through a project called GP2GP as a part of the UK CFH-Connecting for Health initiative. The objective of GP2GP record transfer mechanism is to support the exchange of a GP’s (General Practitioner who is the patient primary care service provider in the context of UK) patient record electronically to a new practice when a patient registers with a new GP. In England an estimated 10% of patients change their practice each year and if the average list size of a practice is 1500 then there will be average of 150 transfers each year per practice. Most practices handle this