record-keeping system

基本解释

And rather than physically moving the wheat around, eventually we had a primitive system - quite advanced by the terms of the day - of record keeping. We had ledgers.
这样就用不着把小麦搬来搬去了，于是我们就有了在当时条件下很先进的原始簿记制度，也就是分户账。

If there is no electronic record-keeping system there will be no way to cut costs in the Medicare system--it is critical that we have more and better information about the patients, particularly those who are seeing multiple physicians.
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And second, accountability: It required clear record-keeping to ensure the vaccines were getting to children and to establish a sustainable delivery system.
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