Nearly every element of healthcare, including medical record-keeping, has been revolutionized by technology. For patients and professionals, digital records increase accuracy, efficiency, and ...

The move to electronic health records could mean more money should be earmarked from general services budgets. According to a recent Billian’s HealthDATA report, hospitals' medical records-related ...

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Pennington Biomedical Research Center researchers have recently published a piece in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, or JMIR. The study titled "Twenty-Five Years of Evolution and Hurdles in ...

ROCHESTER — More than a century ago, Dr. Henry Plummer and Mabel Root created a system at Mayo Clinic that has now become ubiquitous in health care: the unified medical record. This record-keeping ...

Two thousand years ago, physicians in Egypt documented their patients’ symptoms and treatments on papyrus scrolls. These early medical records served a simple, localized purpose: they supported direct ...