What is a medical record?
A medical record is a file that contains information about a single patient, including demographic information, his/her personal health number, contacts, the date of every visit, an overview of the purpose of the visit, and copies of consultations, diagnostic tests, operative reports and all other information created by the patient/physician interaction.
The Medical Record is basically a compilation of the results of the clinical tests which the patient has gone through as per his/her personal physician’s advice. Unlike a Health Record a new Medical Record has to be created every time when the patient wants to store his recent clinical tests results. However he can store more than one Medical Record in his account.
