Hong Kong identity cards will carry the holder's medical records under a pilot project to be launched next year for a city-wide electronic health record sharing system, says Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok.
The medical records of eight million patients are already being accessed electronically by 30,000 health-care workers via the Hospital Authority network.
Around 69,000 patients are electronically linked with 1,600 private doctors.