The Pocket Medical Record?Do We Need a Centralized Medical Data Base?

Abstract As an alternative to a centralized, digital medical data base, a physically separate, microprocessor-generated, portable medical record has been developed. The medical information of this data base is processed and emphasized by physicians or nurses during their direct entry with the CNS* program. Implementation of the CNS program in several medical institutions has shown that the portable medical data base is “useful in transfer of medical information between such institutions, and the data base is adaptable to a variety of practice settings.