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Electronic Patient Record (EPR), systems could be built or changed to share a distributed universal patient medical record that would benefit health care in many ways.
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McGuire, M.R. Incorporating an EPR system with a Universal Patient Record. J Med Syst 30, 259–267 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-005-9007-7
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Keywords
- Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
- Universal Patient Record
- patient medical record
- past medical history
- public health
- chronic condition
- case management
- prevention
- XML
- encounters
- orders
- scanned documents
- digital diagnostic images
- Internet
- Intranet
- Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)
- Continuity of Care Record (CCR)
- Master Patient Index
- interoperability