Researchers develop search tool to extract data from patient's electronic medical record
Researchers at one of the top five hospitals in the United States have developed an advanced search tool called the Queriable Patient Inference Dossier that helps radiologists and other physicians extract useful data from a patient's electronic medical record in a timely and efficient manner, according to an article in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
The southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is digitizing all patient records in public hospitals and linking them to a central data base.