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This post is a set of ramblings which may sound a bit incoherent but needed to be grouped together to give an overview about some of the things that needed to considered about Electronic Patient record/Electronic Medical record. Mandatory Pre-Requisite In my view a mandatory pre-requisite for meeting the many objectives of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) is the ability of that application to support semantic interoperability of clinical information. What I mean by that is the Entry, storage and communication of clinical information by the application in ways that allow it to be consistently reused, retrieved and processed by it and its ability to communicate that information to different software applications. However maintaining Semantic Operability is not so easy due to various issues • Technical issues – Different information models – Different clinical terminologies – Different interfaces between information models and terminologies • Practical issues – Different perspectives on si...