An EMR contains the standard medical and clinical data gathered in one provider’s office. EHRs go beyond the data collected in the provider’s office and include a more comprehensive patient history.
EHRs place accurate and complete information about patients’ health and medical history at providers’ fingertips.
Electronic health record (EHR) systems can decrease the fragmentation of care by improving care coordination.
EHRs are, at their simplest, digital (computerized) versions of patients’ paper charts. But EHRs, when fully up and running, are so much more than that.
EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records. They make information available instantly, “whenever and wherever it is needed”. And they bring together in one place everything about a patient’s health. EHRs can:
One of the key features of an EHR is that it can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized providers and staff across more than one health care organization. A single EHR can bring together information from current and past doctors, emergency facilities, school and workplace clinics, pharmacies, laboratories, and medical imaging facilities.