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It's 2018. Do you know where your medical records are?

  • Written by Bita A. Kash, Associate Professor and Director of Center for Outcomes Research at Houston Methodist, Texas A&M University
It's 2018. Do you know where your medical records are?Electronic medical records could be shared between health systems, allowing doctors to share information and possibly improve care.Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock.com

Can you imagine a future where the question “Did you bring a copy of your test results?” becomes entirely unnecessary?

That could happen, but the methods that most health...

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