title: Incorporating an EPR system with a universal patient record.
abstract: Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems could be built or changed to share a distributed universal patient medical record that would benefit health care in many ways.
authors.affiliation: Kaiser Permanente, USA. uprforum@peoplepc.com
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: McGuire
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011381:Programming Languages; D011787:Quality of Health Care