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Incorporating an EPR system with a Universal Patient Record

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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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