The days of filing out forms in the doctor’s office could soon be over.

Satyam announced last week they are investing one million dollars in a new applied innovation project at Mohawk College involving electronic health records. The goal is that no matter what doctor’s office you happen to go to they will already have your medical information so you will not have to fill out any paperwork.

This is the world’s first initiative to develop an electronic system for healthcare records, and as the Senior Vice President a project that could make lives easier for Canadians. The prototype will allow for online transfer of your medical information between hospitals, family physicians and home care providers.

“This will mean that you will be universally known wherever you go for healthcare. No matter where you go to there will already be your information in the computer database. The hope is that we will be able to produce the first prototype in three months,” said Gary Teelucksingh, Senior Vice President of Satyam Computer Services.

Satyam programmers in India along with a team of Mohawk faculty and students are working at the Satyam iEHR Centre to work on this new healthcare project. Also included with Satyam new one million dollar investment is a research centre located in the I-Wing of Fennell Campus here at Mohawk College.

This type of project could help save lives, as one person describes maybe the difference between life and death..

“ I just moved here from Vancouver a few months ago and have not had the time to find a family physician. It just so happened I got into a car accident and was unconscious when I was rushed to hospital, I am severely allergic to penicillin which the doctors didn’t know because I don’t wear a medical alert bracelet. Luckily a friend who was with me, but not hurt as bad as I was, was able to tell the doctors about it. God only knows what would happen if he wasn’t with me, because if the doctor’s gave me even the smallest dose of penicillin, I probably wouldn’t be here,” said Becky Sinclair.

You may wonder why this type of thing has not been already done. The Minister of Innovation says that the technology just was not there in the past to develop this project.

“Our ability to develop the hardware to be able to support the things we were needing to do, to electronically link healthcare records is now just getting up to the point that we can truly look at it and say we can do this,” said Bob Delaney, Assistant to Minister of Innovation.

There are approximately 2,000 healthcare transactions every minute in Canada requiring documentation and personal information.