Richard Hofstadter. Richard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 â 24 October 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University.
Personal Health Records: Improving Health Care Quality. Personal health records (PHRs) can help your patients better manage their care. Having important health information â such as immunization records, lab results, and screening due dates â in electronic form makes it easy for patients to update and share their records. PHRs can:
Health and social care records can be used to improve social care, public health and the services provided by the NHS. Your health records can also be used: 1  to determine how well a particular hospital or specialist unit is performing. 2  to track the spread of, or risk factors for, a particular disease (epidemiology).o find out more about how to access medical records online or in paper see the section How to access your health records. A health record (sometime referred to as medical record) should contain all the clinical information about the care you received.