What is the difference between EMR and EHR?

Finally, a clear explanation about Hospitals, Clinics and Doctor’s visit.

What is an EMR?

EMR is a digital version of a paper chart that contains all of a patient’s medical history from one practice. An EMR is mostly used by providers for diagnosis and treatment.

Implementing an EMR has great advantages over paper like:

· Able to analyze the patient’s evolution in a shorter period of time

· Easy scheduling for future appointments

· Get alerts of medication process and avoid “human” error processing when requesting medication through an advance technology system.

· Helps save money for both Doctor’s visit and Patient.

What is EHR?

EHR is an electronic health record is design to be use as a system and contains records of health information. They contain all the information you’d find in a paper chart — and a lot more. EHRs include past medical history, vital signs, progress notes, diagnoses, medications, immunizations dates, allergies, lab data and imaging reports. They can also contain other relevant information, such as insurance information, demographic data, and even data imported from personal wellness devices.

The power of an EHR lies not only in the data it contains, but how it’s shared. EHRs makes health information instantly accessible to authorized providers across practices and health organizations, helping to inform clinical decisions and coordinate care. An EHR can be shared with all clinicians and organizations involved in a patient’s care such as labs, specialists, imaging facilities, pharmacies, emergency facilities, and school and workplace clinics.

Some advantages on implementing EHR are the following:

· Any provider or medical staff can add information to the patient records, analyze and collaborate in real time

· Faster and efficient decision making for both medical and business purposes

· A complete medical history on patient’s information, from allergies to radiology exams and other valued information such as laboratory exam and billing statement.

You can also view in a different perspective such as:

· EMR is primary used to offer a diagnosis and treatment.

· EMR is not designed to ¨travel¨ outside of Medical offices.

· EHR is designed to be shared with all clinicians and organizations involved in a patient’s care.

· EHR has the possibilities to ¨move¨ between areas of a clinic or hospital and be shared with related departments within the facilities such as Inventories, Purchasing, Surgery, Labs and Billing.

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