Electronic Health Record (EHR) : Electronic health record (EHR) and Electronic medical record (EMR) are terms often used interchangeably but are technically different. EMRs -- the data source for EHRs -- are the electronic, legal records of patient healt
The article discusses the role of patients in electronic health records management. It says that hospitals and physicians are moving away from doing paper records to electronic records. It emphasizes tha...
Electronic health records: high-quality electronic data for higher-quality clinical research. Inform Prim Care. 2007; 15 (2):121–127.Weiner MG, Lyman JA, Murphy SN, Weiner M (2007) Electronic Health Records: High-Quality Elec- tronic Data for Higher-Quality Clinical Research. Inform Prim ...
The article looks at the implications of the advent of the electronic health record (EHR) for U.S. nurses. It predicts that sharing EHR between unrelated providers will lead to the creation of a Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) and the RHIO will be combined until they are ...
According to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, “the goal of meaningful use is to promote the spread of electronic health records to improve health care in the United States.” We agree and would be slightly more specific: we hope EHRs and meaningful use...
The article “Will Electronic Medical Records Improve Health Care?” was written by Larry Greenemeier. This article talks about how Electronic Medical Records are helping the health care system‚ the opportunities and costs‚ the cost of getting it wrong‚ and talks about how private your re...
View article Electronic Health Records in Genomic Medicine Glenn S.Gerhard, ...Glenn D.SteeleJr, inGenomic and Personalized Medicine (Second Edition), 2013 Introduction The termelectronic health record(EHR) has been used to refer to the complete health record of a patient, which may be scattered...
Like every other aspect of modern life, healthcare records have gone digital. This article explores some benefits of electronic health records for both providers and patients. What are electronic health records? Electronic health records (EHRs), not to be confused with Electronic Patient Care Reporti...
of hospitals using electronic health records in fraudulent ways. Therefore there was an assumption that this was happening systematically, but we find that it isn't," said Adler-Milstein, who is also an assistant professor of health management and policy in the U-M School of Public Health. ...
Electronic health records Privacy Confidentiality Security 1. Introduction An electronic health record is defined as an electronic version of a medical history of the patient as kept by the health care provider for some time period and it is inclusive of all the vital administrative clinical data th...