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Article: Cleveland Clinic unveils state-of-art medical record system.(Practice Trends)
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- Skin & Allergy News
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- January 1, 2008
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The Cleveland Clinic has established a state-of-the-art electronic medical records system to provide the best information not only to clinicians, but also to patients, according to one of the system's architects.
The goal is to make sure that patients--who now have access to literally billions of pages of medical information online--can get the most relevant and accurate information as part of their electronic health record, said Dr. C. Martin Harris, chief information officer of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
"We need to get prepared for the coming consumerism in health care, because patients will have access to medical advice that no longer comes ...