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The Electronic Health Record (EHR)

The Electronic Health Record (EHR), and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) serve as an electronic replacement for paper records. It is an individual patient's medical record in digital format and contains people's demographics, diagnoses, radiolgy reports, progress notes, medications, immunizations, laboratory findings, and medical coding information. Many medical practices and physicians utilize EMR software, and speech recognition programs together as they transition toward a paperless office. It serves as a doctor's own electronic record of his, or her patient's medical care and is updated each time the patient is seen.

EMR vs. EHR...

While the EMR is for a doctor's own use in-house for his patients, the EHR allows communication with other doctors, as well as medical billing, and medical transcriptionist professionals. It is a record of a patient's long-term and aggregate health information generated by one, or more encounters in any medical care delivering system. The EHR, and EMR software and databases must be fully HIPAA compliant. When a caregiver, or allied health professional needs to access the patient's record, it requires a unique login ID (user name and password) for each user to access the system.