Registros médicos de pacientes: la digitalización ya no es una opción y debe ser una obligación

Medical records have been transforming from exclusively paper-based into, in many cases, exclusively  digital. This change has occurred gradually: initially isolated from the local or national health information  system and then in the integration process or already completely interconnected with the entire system.  This is due to the society’s access to electronic systems that can communicate and exchange data with  each other in an agile and technologically interoperable way. However, there are still great challenges on  how to achieve this interoperability and to establish data security, privacy, and confientiality; however,  medical records in digital format are today a powerful and indispensable tool for decision-making, policy  formulation, and proper public health management.