Regardless of the variety of feeder systems in an organization, the CDR organizes a patient's medical data into an integrated record and displays it in a format useful to healthcare providers. The result is a longitudinal patient record that contains all available information about the patient's experiences everywhere within the healthcare delivery system, from the first time the patient received treatment to the present. The CDR provides robust security for the patient information it contains. An audit log tracks all use of the system. Access privileges are assigned by role or by user and may be granted or restricted on any or all elements of the database.
Physicians can even assign temporary access to a patient's information to another physician.
Embedded viewers also allow access to medical images and to live waveforms from patient monitoring systems. The CDR gives patient information to physicians when and where they need it.