Medical treatment has always been an important aspect of human society for a very long time right from the start of human civilization. Medical records were maintained in different formats and often referred to only by a select few. There has been a considerable progress in medical science in the 21st century with medical know how growing by leaps and bounds and so has been the maintenance of an individual’s health records.

This has prompted a strong co-operation between the medical community and technology pundits to create an affordable and adaptable solution for maintaining a patient’s medical history for a considerable time frame.
With advancement in computer and data storage technologies, medical science has stepped forward to take advantage of it in every possible way. Be it controlling of highly sophisticated medical equipments or maintaining a patient’s medical history in the form of electronic medical records or EMR as it more commonly known in the medical fraternity. A patient’s medical records in the form of electronic data can be easily maintained, referred to and transferred to any location with the easy availability of high speed Internet.
Although medical care is required by people at all the stages of their life, the early and the later stages require much more. All over the world it is quite difficult to cope with medical treatment and attention in old age or when one is approaching his retirement age. It is for this reason that there are continuing care retirement communities or CCRC which forms a major pillar of medical support during the retirement age. The CCRC has all the necessary facilities to take care of the ageing folks as per their needs. The CCRC electronic medical records maintained during this time forms a substantial medical database that can be easily transferred if, an individual decides to return to his home for further treatment and personal care.
Nevertheless advancement in technology has definitely helped to improve the ways and techniques of modern medical care in addition to maintaining a reliable history of one’s treatment over the years. It is now quite easy for one to continue to have medical attention without much fuss with the help of electronic medical records.

