For making a permanent online registry of electronic health records of all citizens of Bangladesh, we, at MIS-DGHS, undertook a gigantic work of collecting population data, at the initial with the rural citizens, who represent 70% of the country’s population. Choosing the rural setting first was to gather experienced as organization of rural administrative and health care system is better. Data collection was done using specially designed computer readable forms. A technology called Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) was used to enter the data in the computer. This machine can read hand written scripts too. After data entry, the electronic records are preserved with MIS-DGHS. There is an electronic record for each citizen traceable through unique identifier. The plan was to update the health records in each medical encounter and change of events. Health facilities, where the citizens receive any medical care, or health workers visiting home of the citizen, or community clinic where the citizens are permanently affiliated were planned to update the health record. To equip the health facilities, health workers and community clinics, appropriate devices and Internet connectivity were provided to these facilities and persons. On use of the full functionality, this online registry is expected to provide updated demographics, birth and death rates and disease related information at any time through Internet and user friendly dashboard. The need for conducting separate surveys should be minimized.