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What is Electronic Health Record (EHR)

Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services
An electronic version of the patient’s medical record.
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Directions for ICT Research in Disease Prevention
Marco Nalin (Fondazione Centro San Raffaele, Italy), Monica Verga (Fondazione Centro San Raffaele, Italy), Alberto Sanna (Fondazione Centro San Raffaele, Italy), and Niilo Saranummi (VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, Finland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch012
Abstract
The market for ICT enabled Personal Health Systems in secondary prevention, namely chronic disease management systems, is already emerging, and from an ICT research perspective, challenges in this domain have been tackled in the last decade. This chapter instead will focus on ICT research directions for primary prevention, i.e., taking care of individuals’ health before they actually become “patients” of any chronic condition. Primary prevention proposes strong challenges, especially because a healthy person is less interested in investing time and money in solutions for improving/maintaining her health status. This chapter proposes a model in which the citizen can become a co-producer of her own health, together with the traditional Healthcare Systems and with other entities that may find interesting business opportunities to enter in this game.
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A Preliminary Study of Key Factors Affecting Management and Evaluation of IT Outsourcing Contracts in Hospitals
It is a systematic and longitudinal collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations which is capable of being shared across different healthcare settings, by being embedded in network-connected enterprise-wide information systems. Included in the EHR are progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, patient demographics, past medical history, immunizations, and laboratory reports.
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A Preliminary Study of Key Factors Affecting Management and Evaluation of IT Outsourcing Contracts in Hospitals
It is a systematic and longitudinal collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations which is capable of being shared across different healthcare settings, by being embedded in network-connected enterprise-wide information systems. Included in the EHR are progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, patient demographics, past medical history, immunizations, and laboratory reports.
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Home Healthcare in Cloud Computing
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Home Healthcare in Cloud Computing
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Using Big Data in Healthcare
A systematic collection of digitalized personal or massive health information.
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RehaInteract: 3D Kinesitherapy for Domestic Environments
An EHR is a collection of health information or information about health services a patient received. It is associated with one individual (i.e. a patient). The purpose of an EHR is to share the health information among actors involved in the treatment process of a patient. Therefore, the necessary data is collected from Care delivery Operators that were involved in a patient's treatment process and maintain health information about this patient in their private information systems.
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Improving Patient Safety with Information Technology
An electronic repository of information about a patient’s health care and clinical information management tools that provide alerts, reminders and tools for data analysis
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The Canadian Health Record Interoperability Infrastructure
Provides a secure and private lifetime computer-based record of a patient’s key health history and care within a health system.
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Blockchain in the Healthcare Sector
Is a set of data that store the patient health information in a digital format.
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Ethics and Privacy Considerations for Systems Biology Applications in Predictive and Personalized Medicine
Is systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations. It is a digital record that may be access by different health care providers. EHRs may include patient individual or summarized information such as demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, and billings.
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A View of Health Information Exchange: Towards a Digital Health Community
An electronic record of health-related information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff across more than one healthcare organization.
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Improving Patient Safety with Information Technology
An electronic repository of information about a patient’s health care and clinical information management tools that provide alerts, reminders and tools for data analysis
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Optimization of Medical Supervision, Management, and Reimbursement of Contemporary Home Care
A personal medical record in digital format, typically accessed on a computer or over a network. An EHR almost 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 nonclinical administrative information.
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Maturity Models in Healthcare IS/IT Investments: Challenges and Trends
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.
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Digital Transformation Challenges for the Implementation of Quality Electronic Medical Records
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a longitudinal electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. Included in this information are patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports. The EHR automates and streamlines the clinician's workflow. The EHR has the ability to generate a complete record of a clinical patient encounter - as well as supporting other care-related activities directly or indirectly via interface - including evidence-based decision support, quality management, and outcomes reporting.
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Electronic Health Record Portals Definition and Usage
It’s a repository of patient data in digital form, stored and exchanged securely.
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Evolution of the Health Record as a Communication Tool to Support Patient Safety
Digitised information as well as information that is directly entered (born digital) or interfaced from other systems. EHRs contain information for all providers involved in the patient’s care and can included information from multiple healthcare facilities.
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E-Health, Local Governance, and Public-Private Partnering in Ontario
EHR provides each individual with a secure and private lifetime record of their key health history and care within the health system.
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An Exploration of Digital Health Literacy in Malaysia
An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a digital version of a patient's medical history and health information that is accessible to authorized healthcare providers.
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Health Information Technology and Business Process Reengineering
Also known as Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology Commissioner meeting minutes of April 15, 2008 related that the work group addressing the terms EMR, EHR, and PHR would like to retire the term EMR and take the definition of EHR to present future vision (Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, 2008 AU31: The in-text citation "Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, 2008" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). For the purpose of this study and consistency the term will be EHR. These terms are used interchangeably. EHR is information on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, managed, and consulted by clinicians and staff across multiple health care organizations.
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Wearables, Artificial intelligence, and the Future of Healthcare
Electronic health record is a collection of digital patient data in a systematic manner which can be used to share among multiple health care companies.
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Active Patient Role in Recording Health Data
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Health Information Technology and Change
Also known as Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology Commissioner meeting minutes of April 15, 2008 related that the work group addressing the terms EMR, EHR, and PHR would like to retire the term EMR and take the definition of EHR to present future vision (Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, 2008 AU118: The in-text citation "Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, 2008" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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A Mathematical Model to Plan the Adoption of EHR Systems
Healthcare record that provides clinician (and increasingly consumer) access to clinical details captured from one or more encounters.
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Benefits and Barriers to Adoption of Information Technology in US Healthcare
An electronic repository of information about a patient’s health care and clinical information management tools that provide alerts, reminders and tools for data analysis
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An Integrated Approach Towards Developing Quality Mobile Health Apps for Cancer
The electronic health record (EHR) is a longitudinal electronic record of patient health information generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. Included in this information are patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory data and radiology reports. The EHR automates and streamlines the clinician's workflow. The EHR has the ability to generate a complete record of a clinical patient encounter—as well as supporting other care-related activities directly or indirectly via interface—including evidence-based decision support, quality management, and outcomes reporting.
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Case Load: Incorporating Librarian Support for Clinical and Biomedical Research
A patient-specific digital record containing their medical and treatment history, including diagnoses, procedures, immunizations, allergies, and laboratory test results. Also referred to as an electronic medical record (EMR).
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