Electronic Health Record. 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.
Electronic Healthcare Record. An electronic health record is a longitudinal record of a patient's health and healthcare from cradle to grave. It combines the information about patient's primary healthcare with subsets of information associated with the outcomes of periodic care held in Electronic Patient Records. This term is defined in Information for Health ( http://www.nhsia.nhs.uk/def/pages/info4health/contents.asp ). See Electronic Patient Record (EPR).
is an acronym for Electronic Health Record.
Electronic Health Record (also known as an Electronic Medical Record or EMR). An electronic health or medical record is a computer-based patient medical record that can be used to collect and look up patient data by physicians or health professionals at various locations such as doctors' offices or hospitals. The record includes information such as patient problems, medications, allergies, laboratory results, etc.
Electronic health 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.
An acronym for Electronic Health Record and another name for Electronic Medical Record. ail: A text form of communication, analogous to voice mail. Anything that can be stored on a computer can be sent from one email address to another. Email that has access to the Internet can send a message to any other Internet email address anywhere in the world. Generally, email messages are short, informal typed messages. However, they can also be long or formal and can contain attached files and pictures.
An Electronic Health Record is a longitudinal collection of personal health information of a single individual, entered or accepted by health care providers, and stored electronically. The record may be made available at any time to providers, who have been authorized by the individual, as a tool in the provision of health care services. The individual has access to the record and can request changes to its content. The transmission and storage of the record is under strict security (Source: Tactical plan for a pan-Canadian health infostructure, Health Canada).
Electronic health record. Birth to death record of a patient's health and healthcare.