Digital Hospitals: Empowering the Transformation of the Healthcare Industry

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The journey to “digital hospitals” can be traced back to Rochester, Minnesota. In the late 1960s, the Mayo Clinic became one of the first major healthcare institutions to adopt electronic medical records (EHRs). At first, the use of these records was limited to large institutions that had the computational and financial resources to implement this new technology. But as time went on, adoption increased and a new era of “problem-oriented” medical care began. As clinicians became able to both store and access patient health data and share it with other doctors and nurses, they were able to improve patient care.