SUMMARY - Electronic Health Records
A physician opens a patient's electronic health record and sees her history at a glance - previous diagnoses, medications, allergies, test results, specialist notes. The information that once required phone calls and faxes and hours of searching is now available with a click. A patient visits a new emergency department in a different city, and the doctors there can access her records, knowing about the heart condition and the medication she takes, avoiding a dangerous interaction.