Electronic Health Records

Abstract— MedRec is a comprehensive record-keeping system for your personal medical information. In the present scenario, the medical history of a patient is recorded on paper and stored in various files. Over the years, these records are lost. The medical history holds immense value to both patients and doctors that is when doctor examines a patient.

Keeping track of medical records can be difficult if your health information is in multiple places or in a format (such as paper) that is difficult to use. This challenge gets harder when working with several doctors to address several health concerns. Your doctor and other health care providers maintain their own medical records about you. But many patients see advantages in also maintaining their own personal health records to record past appointments, test results, prescriptions, and more. Therefore it's the perfect replacement for unreliable paper records or various electronic systems that hold bits and pieces of your medical history. With MedRec, any and all information that is important to you is kept together in one place.

MedRec isn't just one medical record. You can keep as many records as you want. Use it for a spouse or aging parents. Use it to keep

You recount your peanut allergy and Grandma's hypertension but forget to mention the medication you were on two years ago. Electronic health records are designed to circumvent such problems by providing an easily shareable record of all that information in one place. The potential for greater convenience and accuracy is so clear that federal law requires doctors and hospitals to start using electronic records by 2015. More than half of all U.S. doctors already do so, up from only 17 percent five years ago. Almost four in five hospitals have made the transition to electronic records. The federal government has spent more than $15 billion to help promote the