G. S. Lebedev, Yu. V. Tikhonova

The president and the Government of the Russian Federation a task in view of creation of the State information system of the personified account in public health services of the Russian Federation which is solved within the limits of the personified account in public health services. One of the major elements of such system is the electronic medical card. Formation of requirements to an electronic medical card is based on the advanced international experience and consolidation of the saved up knowledge of leading domestic developers of medical information systems. Development of the uniform standardized approaches to its construction is the important and actual problem of public health services the maintenance of national standards, definition of an electronic medical card, the requirement Are resulted in its architecture and a scope. The basis of a health informatics system is made by electronic health record. In the work the electronic health record architecture, definition, scope and context are considered.