Electronic Medical Records

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Electronic Medical Records

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Medical Records Data Offers Doctors Hope of Better Patient Care

You have just been diagnosed with diabetes. The doctor opens your electronic medical record, which includes your latest test results, DNA sequence, history of arthritis, smoking status, prior Covid-19 infection and your age, gender, body-mass index and race. She updates as necessary and clicks a green button on her computer screen.

Moments later, a report comes back summarizing how thousands of patients just like you were treated in the past. In this hypothetical future appointment, your doctor draws on this volume of cases to come up with the best treatment.

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