Inside Digital Health September 11, 2019
James McGauley, M.D.

Editor’s note: This article is the seventh in an ongoing series by James McGauley, M.D., on the idea of a Coordinated Medical Record system, which literally produces a single comprehensive medical record for every patient. The record contains all of the patient’s clinical and financial healthcare information over space and time. The credit card industry is the model. This type of information system will do more to increase the quality and decrease the cost of healthcare simultaneously than any other single initiative

A Coordinated Medical Record system is primarily designed to capture and organize outpatient data because 96% of healthcare encounters occur in the outpatient arena. There are about one billion outpatient visits every year compared to only about 36...

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