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FYI: The Electronic Medical Record

Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer a tremendous opportunity to reduce healthcare costs, improve quality of care, and save lives. EMRs can dramatically reduce prescription errors. The Veterans Affairs EMR system has helped it achieve an error rate of less than 0.003 percent. Healthcare providers across the country recognize the benefits of EMRs, but also know the challenges of keeping up with technology.

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* EMRs vs. EHRs
* News
* General Information on EMRs
* Implementing EMRs
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EMRs vs. EHRs:

Many people in the US healthcare industry, our government, and the press use the terms Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Electronic Health Record (EHR) interchangeably. However, these terms describe completely different concepts. The EMR is the legal record created in hospitals and ambulatory environments that is the source of data for the EHR. The EHR represents the ability to easily share medical information among stakeholders and to have a patient’s information follow him or her through the various modalities of care engaged by that individual. Stakeholders are composed of patients/consumers, healthcare providers, employers, and/or payers/insurers, including the government. EHRs are reliant on EMRs being in place, and EMRs will never reach their full potential without interoperable EHRs in place.

The Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has provided a whitepaper entitled: Electronic Medical Records vs. Electronic Health Records: Yes, There Is a Difference. It provides much detail into the differences between EMRs and EHRs. Here is a link to the document: http://www.himssanalytics.org/docs/WP_EMR_EHR.pdf

Wikipedia has pages providing overviews of both EMRs and EHRs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_medical_record
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_health_record

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A lot more info is available in the Full article:

http://www.amcp.org/amcp.ark?p=FB72104D

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