a digital collection of a patient's medical history and could include items like diagnosed medical conditions, prescribed medications, vital signs, immunizations, lab results, and personal characteristics like age and weight
a patient centric HIT aggregator designed to capture/collect the entire spectrum of available healthcare information for a patient
a secure lifetime record of an individual's key health information available to authorized health professionals electronically
A real-time patient health record with access to evidence-based decision support tools that can be used to aid clinicians in decisionmaking. The EHR can automate and streamline a clinician's workflow, ensuring that all clinical information is communicated. It can also prevent delays in response that result in gaps in care. The EHR can also support the collection of data for uses other than clinical care, such as billing, quality management, outcome reporting, and public health disease surveillance and reporting.
A repository of electronically maintained information about an individual's lifetime health status and health care, stored such that it can serve the multiple legitimate users of the record.
An electronic record composed of health information regarding an individual patient that exists as part of a complete system designed to provide access to, and management of, such information. The EHR is developed and managed by the health facility or provider. The term Electronic Health Record has largely replaced the older “Electronic Medical Record.
A digital repository of descriptions of a patient's medical conditions, the treatments administered and the outcomes obtained. Aggregations of such descriptions created by healthcare institutions. More information is available on the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Resource Center for Health Information Technology website.
Birth to death record of a patient's health and healthcare.
An electronic health record (EHR) is a personal medical record in digital format. An EHR is typically accessed on a computer or over a network. An EHR almost always includes information relating to the current and historical health, medical conditions and medical tests of its subject.
