Healthcare providers today, unanimously agree that maintaining patient records is an essential process in healthcare. In the 1960s, most hospitals and healthcare providers in the US relied solely on paper for maintaining such records. This resulted in heaps of paperwork, making the process of managing patient records a mammoth task. Some progressive leaders in healthcare soon realized that only an electronic medical record system can solve this issue. However, creating and maintaining such systems proved to be extremely costly at the time.
