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The article outlines the usefulness and importance of informatics solution in evaluating disability in Romania. It discusses disability, the physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM), the goal of the Electronic Health Record (EHR), and the goal of e-Health. It also relates the adoption of the information and communication technologies solutions for the whole health system.

Using informatics solutions in medicine is not news, but creating a disability data base that has the purpose to evaluate disability on all its levels is imposed, considering the ascending trend of the number of population living with different categories and different levels of disability. A multidisciplinary team decided to focus efforts in designing a new online web application, able to respond to most of the specifications of an ideal disability survey tool. The aim is to develop a valuable instrument, worthy of being adopted as a national IT solution for disability degree evaluation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]