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Patient management is a very crucial part of the healthcare sector. It includes several elements like patient clinic relation, examination, diagnosis, and treatment. To have a desirable treatment output, patient management becomes a very important factor. A well-organized system is required to handle a patient from day one. A patient’s medical and social history plays a recognizable role in timely diagnosis and treatment. The traditional way of patient management works by maintaining the health records of patients in physical format. It requires a separate record section every clinical to have a good output. But there are a lot of disadvantages to the traditional method. It’s impossible to store records for long years in an organized way. With an increasing population and increasing patients, patient management becomes a cumbersome task for clinics, so there is a requirement for a technology-based patient management system.
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