Unified Clinical Record — All Your Medical Data in One Place

What Is a Unified Clinical Record?

A unified clinical record is a digital medical file that consolidates all of a patient's information — diagnostic images, lab results, consultations, prescriptions — from different healthcare centers into a single accessible record. Unlike the fragmented model where each clinic, laboratory, or hospital maintains its own isolated archive, the unified record gives patients and their physicians access to a complete picture regardless of where the studies were performed.

This concept addresses one of the most serious systemic problems in healthcare: the dispersion of clinical information. When a patient has an X-ray at clinic A, blood work at lab B, and a consultation at hospital C, each change of facility means starting from scratch — with all the clinical risks that entails.

Why It Matters in Healthcare

The fragmentation of clinical records has been identified as one of the top challenges in the Peruvian healthcare system (MINSA, 2023). The unified clinical record is often called the "holy grail" of digital health because it solves:

• Elimination of information silos: records from multiple centers are automatically consolidated, removing the patient's dependence on CDs, USB drives, or paper documents that can be lost.
• Continuity of care: when a patient sees a new specialist, that physician accesses the full history — with the patient's authorization — avoiding unnecessary repeat studies and improving diagnostic accuracy.
• Patient control over their data: the user decides what information to share with each center through granular toggles (images, lab results, consultations) and can revoke access at any time.
• Automatic linking: when a patient is seen at a connected center, studies are incorporated into the record without forms or manual requests.
• Portability: information travels with the patient, not with the institution. A new doctor can access the consolidated history with proper authorization.

How Davix Relates to the Unified Clinical Record

Multi-center consolidation is one of the core capabilities of the DAVIX+ platform. Key features include:

• Automatic record linking whenever the patient receives care at any center connected to the Davix ecosystem, with no manual intervention required.
• A granular permissions panel where the patient controls what types of data are shared with each center: diagnostic images, lab results, or clinical consultations.
• Access revocation at any time: the patient retains their history, but the center can no longer view future information.
• A portable history that allows a new physician to review the complete record during a teleconsultation or in-person visit, with the patient's explicit authorization.
• Native integration with the Davix PACS/RIS and LIS to incorporate images and lab results automatically.

The unified clinical record represents a paradigm shift: medical information belongs to the patient, not to the institution that generates it.