— Practice Partner @ 4:29 pm — 
September 8, 2008What is an EMR?
An electronic medical record (EMR) is software that allows you to create, store, edit, and retrieve patient charts on a computer. A successful EMR project allows a practice to replace its paper charts with electronic charts. This offers tremendous productivity and efficiency benefi ts to a practice. By storing all the data you previously recorded in the patient’s paper chart, an EMR replaces the racks of chart folders with a computer.
What is an EHR?
An electronic health record is a system that brings in data from multiple sources to create a complete health record of a patient. This, for example, might be labs from the hospital or patient information automatically transferred to the system which then automatically populates the correct portions of the chart.
Bottom line: Some industry experts will argue that the differences between an EHR and EMR are significant but most software vendors use them interchangeably and the price tag is about the same.
The success of either an EMR or EHR for providers and the medical industry is a critical factor for a provider and either one requires a careful work plan for training, set up and implementation. This, we have compiled resources and information on this blog to give physicians theinformation they need to make an informed, profitable decision.
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Thanks for sharing this differences between EHR and EMR
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Sometimes when one approach isn’ t working it’ s real easy to try something else. And sometimes the something else gives you a solution in the form of a water- walker. Healthcare IT and EHR aren’ t ever going to be one of those sometimes. There w…
EHR! Is there privacy and approval requirements when transferring information from an third party? I have attempted on numerous occasions to have files and information transferred to my General Doctor in my home town, only to be me with resistance and often refusal.