Author(s): Jacquinet, Marc ; Curado, Henrique
Date: 2016
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/17621
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Subject(s): Electronic health record; Registo electrónico de saúde; Governmentality; Health information
In this section, after a brief history, the issue of definition and several dimensions of electronic health records will be tackled. If the first known medical records can be traced to Hippocrates and the goals he attributed to these records were to describe accurately the course of a disease and gives a probable cause of it; the electronic dimension of these records can be traced back to the 1960s in some hospitals that started a more systematic recording and use of patients’ data by services and doctors. But it is still more recently, in the 1990s, with the ever wider use of internet and online databases that the electronic health record emerged as a new tool in the public health systems of OECD countries.
