subject: The True Concept Of The Electronic Medical Records And Electronic Health Records [print this page] Medical documentation has changed the health centers to maintain and access the patients report anywhere anytime. With the transformation in these areas there are two familiar words confessing the meaning. They are electronic medical records and electronic health records.
These are not related to the same meaning. To clarify the differences first we need to know about the medical records. A medical record is a document provided by the doctors and health care centers. It registers the complete description of the patient details, health reports and the treatment that he had imposed.
An electronic medical record is the property of the health care center from where it is obtained. It allows the storage, retrieval and manipulation of the patients report. Whereas the EHR is defined as
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 interfaceincluding evidence-based decision support, quality management, and outcomes reporting.- By the National Institute of health NNCR.
The best way to get digitized is the huge question among the developed nations. The main fact for the transition is not only in removing the illegible doctors writings it also has some other issues. In a health care center the everyday enormous amount of patient details were generated. These older records were perfectly archived by the centers and stored, even accessed when the patient shifted from actual center to a new. This makes the clinics an inconvenient procedure.
The EHR should have the access to critical information in the emergency care of the patient only in outside the original geographic location. Hippocrates was developed the first known medical reports in the fifth century, Before Christ. He prescribed two factors for the medical report. There are
The course of the disease should be accurately reported.
The probable cause of the disease should be indicated in the medical report.
These were perfectly carried over by the EMR. But the EHR will provide addition information and functionality such as flow sheet, clinicians alert, etc to the others, which were not made in the paper files.
The terms EHR and EMR were interchangeably used. But it doesnt mean that
EMR is mostly described as medical practice software. There is medical billing software available for patients fee report preparation which also includes the patients medical report. So it is mostly called with the name EMR.
These EMR were use the optical character recognition, which will allow us to edit and modify our scanned documents.
EHR is considered as the collection of electronic medical records. The EHR is a network of the EMR nodes. So that a nation or local people medical reports can be accessed.
