Madras HC Issues Notice to Centre, State on Plea seeking Digitisation of Medico-legal documents https://medicaldialogues.in/news/health/medico-legal/madras-hc-issues-notice-to-centre-state-on-plea-seeking-digitisation-of-medico-legal-documents-100138 Barsha Misra 2022-10-05
Seeking computerisation of medical records having legal importance, the petitioner informed the HC bench about the Medico Legal Examination and Postmortem Reporting (MedLeaPR), a software developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
Several states and union territories of India are currently using this software for issuing medico-legal reports and certificates digitally and for storing the data in the encrypted form in the cloud.
Filing the PIL, the petitioner urged the court for issuing direction upon the Central and State Government to implement this software in all government hospitals, and Centrally-funded hospitals under the control of the family welfare, labour, and ESI departments of the Central government.