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Forces are aligning to shift American health care into the Information Age: an age which financial institutions, airlines, supermarkets and most manufacturing industries have already entered.The shift, which these institutions have already experienced, will facilitate the establishment and widespread use of standardized databases in health care.The databases are known by the terms electronic medical records (EMRs), electronic health record (EHRs) or personal health records (PHRs).
Edward P. Ambinder (2005) studied this question.