HLTC16H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Electronic Health Record, Personal Health Record, Health Information Technology For Economic And Clinical Health Act
23 Nov 2016
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Aka computerized medical records (cmr), electronic clinical information (eci) and computerized patient records (cpr) Electronic medical record: electronic record of health related info on an individual that can be created, gathered, manages and consulted by authorized clinicians and staff w/in one healthcare org. Electronic health record: electronic record of health related info on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be created, manage and consulted authorized clinicians and staff in more than one healthcare org. Personal health record: electronic record of health related info on an individual that conforms to nationally recognized interoperability standards and that can be drawn from multiple sources while being managed, shared and controlled by the individual. Even though the clinician used a template, handwriting can be illegible and the document cant be electronically stored/shared (not structured data) Expensive to copy; easy to destroy; difficult to determine and analyze and there is a neg impact on the enviro.
