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How can you define Electronic Health Record or EHR?

by Annie P. SEO

Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic version of a patient's medical records. Providers maintain EHR to keep patient records accurate and up-to-date.


EHR is a collection of patient records generated during clinical encounters or events. EHR contains patients' all medical reports. Following are details that EHR contain:


  • Past medical records 

  • Vitals

  • Diagnosis 

  • Vaccination dates 

  • Medication details

  • Allergies 

  • Family details 

  • Insurance and Claims details

  • Laboratory tests integration

  • Progress notes

  • Radiology images

  • Tele-visits


Providers are using patients' data to improve their quality outcomes for their healthcare management system. All that data stored in EHR is used to improve the quality of the given care. 


Providers don't have to worry about storing the data in the system or install any software for using electronic health records because electronic health records (EHR) store their data on cloud-based systems. So, providers can access their data from anywhere and anytime. Also, providers can access patients' data from devices like mobiles, tablets, laptops, or computers.


Electronic health records are also used for easily sharing data from one provider to another provider, laboratory tests, reports, or insurance companies. EHR vendors provide different features in their EHR system or customize their system according to providers' needs, but some are common EHR features in all EHR systems.


How does EHR improve patient care?

EHR can improve patient care by:


  • Reducing medical errors by improving the accuracy of medical records.

  • Remove patients' duplicate medical records.

  • Provide accurate and up-to-date patient data.

  • Improve patients details safety 


What are the benefits of electronic health records?


  • Provide facility to share data with other organization

  • More efficient storage and retrieval

  • Provide privacy and security of patients medical records

  • Communicate with patients at any time or anywhere

  • Easily accessed from any devices 

  • Provide charting facility to view details easily


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