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According to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (ISO/TR20514 2005), electronic health record (EHR) is repository of information regarding the health status of a subject of care, in computer-processable form. The information can be retrospective, concurrent, and prospective. It can be transmitted securely and accessible by multiple authorized users. The primary purpose of EHR is to support continuing, efficient, and quality integrated healthcare.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the largest international health information management association, defines EHR as a longitudinal electronic record of patient health information (https://www.himss.org/library/ehr). The information is generated by one or more encounters in any care delivery setting. The content of EHR includes patient demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunizations, laboratory...
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Yu, P. (2021). Electronic Health Record. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22009-9_442
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