STHC-L: The Science, Technology and Health Care Archives Forum

End of paper medical records

• Date:   Friday, July 23, 2004 7:17 PM
• To:   sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From:   Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject:   End of paper medical records
• Message-ID:   800b8c7fe21c.7fe21c800b8c@library.ucla.edu

Forwarded to STHC-L from ALHHS-L. --RJ 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen E. Novak" [sen13@columbia.edu] 
Date: Monday, July 19, 2004 6:05 am 
Subject: End of paper medical records 

Those of you not on the Archives & Archivists listserv may find this recently posted item of interest. 
Obviously, this has been in the works for some time. At Mayo, according to the article, they've 
been working on switching to electronic records for 11 years.

The question is, of course, whether any of these will be avaiable 50 or 100 years from now. 

Steve Novak