Summary

Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems have been developed and integrated into the healthcare sector to facilitate proper patient record keeping that can be shared between healthcare practitioners and their patients. This provides all parties involved access to a patient’s diagnostic results from third-party facilities. Furthermore, the data can be extracted by billing software to decrease administration work for doctors. Lastly, EMR systems contain details on demographics, test results, medical history, history of present illness, and medications, which can be transferred to new care providers. EMR systems are an essential piece to the evolving healthcare process. As the world navigates towards personalized medicine, remote patient monitoring, and telehealth, EMR systems will serve as the connecting instrument of these themes. As the key record-keeping and communication platform, it is easy to see the centrality of this system. In the near future, EMR systems will grow and support other themes, including 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, blockchain...