Electronic
Health Record (EHR).
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a digital version of a patient's paper chart. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.
Pronunciation
Electronic Health Record: /ɪˌlɛkˈtrɒnɪk hɛlθ rɪˈkɔːrd/
Etymology
The term "Electronic Health Record" comes from the combination of the words "electronic", referring to an item or system that operates using electricity, "health", referring to the state of being free from illness or injury, and "record", referring to a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form.
Related Terms
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR): An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that can be created, gathered, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff within one healthcare organization.
- Personal Health Record (PHR): An electronic application through which individuals can maintain and manage their health information in a private, secure, and confidential environment.
- Health Information Exchange (HIE): The mobilization of health care information electronically across organizations within a region, community or hospital system.
- Interoperability: The ability of different information systems, devices and applications to access, exchange, integrate and cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner, within and across organizational, regional and national boundaries.
- Health Information Technology (HIT): The application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision making.
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Electronic
- Wikipedia's article - Electronic
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