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New patient record system emerges at Mayo Clinic.

Date: 1907

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With the new system, a patient is assigned a clinic number, and all of that patient's data are combined in a single record. While this is an attempt to integrate and organize records, information on the patient's care (as opposed to their diagnosis) is still largely absent.