Back to the future: integrating technology to improve patient-provider interactions.

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Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York; and Department of Dermatology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Somerset, New Jersey, USA.

Published: June 2019

The adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) resulted in both improvement and deterioration of different aspects of patient-provider interactions. We envision further integration of current and future technology to optimize patient-provider interactions, which we present using a hypothetical patient encounter.

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