Trivia: Ben Franklin & HIM...

 In the early days of the United States, Benjamin Franklin created the first patient information register at what is now Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia with the “… patient's name, address, disorder, the dates of admission and discharge with the result on discharge….”
  

-From  Huffman E. K. Manual for Medical Record Librarians. 4th ed. Berwyn, IL: Physicians’ Record Company: 1960. p. 17.