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Tip: Develop your own dictionary with these definitions

EHR Connection, January 28, 2008

As you eagerly await the list of consensus-based definitions of important health information technology terms-a project spearheaded by The National Alliance for Health Information Technology in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology-refer to our helpful list of acronyms and their definitions.

• HIS (health information system): typically refers to a specific vendor application that encompasses multiple applications across clinical, administrative, or financial functions
• NHIN (national health information network): the coordination of regional health information networks into a national data bank
• LHR (legal health record): the complete and total patient medical record, which encompasses all visit notes, transactions, and images related to direct care during a single episode of care, is able to be output for subpoena purposes (see EDMS), and becomes "closed" at a certain point of time after which it is no longer a dynamic document
• PHR (personal health record): an electronic health record created and maintained (controlled) by the consumer/user, and with content that may come from a variety of sources

This tip is brought to you by the January issue of Medical Records Briefing.

This list is the last in a special three-part series in EHR Connection. Refer to the January 14 and January 21 issues for parts one and two of the series.

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