Friday, April 6, 2007

Is Electronic Medical Record same as Electronic Health Record ?

There are some confusion about EHR (Electronic Health Record) and EMR (Electronic Medical Record). EHR is different with EMR because An electronic health record (EHR) is a distributed personal health record in digital format. The EHR provides secure, real-time, patient-centric information to aid clinical decision-making by providing access to a patient's health information at the point of care. An EHR is typically accessed on a computer or over a network. It may be made up of health information from many locations and/or sources, including electronic medical records (EMRs). An EHR almost always includes information relating to the current and historical health, medical conditions and medical tests of its subject. In addition, EHRs may contain data about medical referrals, medical treatments, medications and their application, demographic information and other non-clinical administrative information. The ideal EHR system, as of 2007, has not been implemented by any software or other vendor.
The other side, An electronic medical record (EMR) is a medical record in digital format.In health informatics an EMR is considered to be one several types of electronic health records, so maybe we could accept this term that EHR is more completed and more complicated

Enny Rachmani