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What's the difference between EMR and EHR?
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Multiple terms have been used to define electronic patient care records, with overlapping definitions. Both electronic health record (EHR) and electronic medical record (EMR) have gained widespread use, with some health informatics users assigning the term EHR to a global concept and EMR to a discrete localised record.
Other people prefer to define an EMR as the physician interface and once you add a patient portal to your EMR you get an EHR. This essentially builds on the idea that once the patient is submitting information it's not a medical record, but is still a health record.
For most users, however, the terms EHR and EMR are used interchangeably. An EHR system is also often abbreviated as EHR or EMR. For purposes of the EMR and HIPAA wiki, EMR and EHR will be used interchangeably.
