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Tip: CPR isn't always what comes to mind first

EHR Connection, January 21, 2008

While the National Alliance for Health Information Technology spearheads the effort to develop a list of consensus-based definitions of important health information technology terms, add this list of acronyms to your customized electronic dictionary.

This list is the second in a special three-part series in Electronic Health Record Connection.

• CPR (computer-based patient record): the original term used to describe an electronic health record
• EDMS (electronic document management system): the foundation repository for the complete episodic-based legal health record
• EHR (electronic health record-generic): the global term encompassing all electronically generated components of a computer-based patient record-generally refers to hospital- or facility-based records (as contrasted with EMR)
• EMR (electronic medical record): the global term encompassing all electronically generated components of a computer-based patient record-generally refers to physician-, professional-, or clinic-based records (as contrasted with EHR)
• HIE (health information exchange): an organization whose purpose is to promote specific data exchange in the healthcare environment between a set group of stakeholders

This tip is brought to you by the January issue of Medical Records Briefing. Look for more definitions in next week's Electronic Health Record Connection.

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