An <em>inpatient medical record</em> is an archive where the health record of a patient is stored. This includes all of the information that is gathered from him or her from the first time this person made use of the services at that particular medical center until the most recent occasion.
There is a growing tendency in the acquiring of electronic and digital tools that would let medical professionals store more types of data, as well as the amount of data collections they make for each data category.
