en اطلاع رسانی پزشکی اطلاع رسانی پزشکی نامه به سردبیر Letter to editor &nbsp; <span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">The Iranian Electronic Health Record (SEPAS) was launched in 2007 as a national project to store health-related information on all Iranian citizens from before birth to after death in the Statistics and Information Technology Office of the Ministry of Health </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">(1)</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">. The main goal of this project was to move away from paper records and align with the growth of the global digital health system, and create a secure platform for sharing citizens&rsquo; health information when needed </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">(2)</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">. This sharing was defined primarily to help diagnose and treat patients and provide better care, and later for secondary uses such as education, research, policymaking, and disease and epidemic surveillance </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">(3)</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">. In general, the Iranian Electronic Health Record is theoretically in line with international standards</span></span></span> Digital health, Electronic health record, European health data space, Secondary use 1 2 http://umj.umsu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-5924-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Aynaz Nourani nourani.a@umsu.ac.ir 3700319475328460038803 3700319475328460038803 Yes Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran