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Electronic health records are supposed to make clinical care faster and safer. In practice, the record is also a living data system. Every time someone selects a diagnosis, pastes a lab value, scans a problem list from an outside visit, or updates a medication history, the EHR is quietly collecting structured and unstructured data that will be reused later for billing, clinical decision support, quality reporting, research, audits, and even basic patient matching across sys