Inside Digital Health July 15, 2019
Editor’s note: This article is the first in an ongoing series by James McGauley, M.D., on the idea of a Coordinated Medical Record system and how it could reshape healthcare.
In the 1850s, Florence Nightingale wrote that medical record-keeping needed to be revised. She noted that medical records were in a deplorable state, as none were maintained in a uniform manner. There was a complete lack of coordination among caregivers.
Flash forward to 2009, when Jerry Adler, a Newsweek magazine journalist, wrote that the nation will miss a historic opportunity if millions of American doctors adopt a hodgepodge of standalone electronic medical record (EMR) systems that don’t communicate with each other. Adler was one of very few who pointed out...
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