EHR
Speech parts
1. EHR - Noun
2. EHR - Proper noun
Meaning
EHR (plural EHRs)
(medicine) Initialism of electronic health record.
Coordinate terms: EMR, HIS, CIS, RIS, PACS, DICOM, HL7
Ehr
The English name for a city in Rhine-Lahn-Kreis, Germany.
Synonyms
Examples
A large part of the clinician's interaction with the EHR involves navigation through the user interface using menus, and tab/button clicks, and is heavily dependent on keyboard and mouse: voice-based navigation provides only modest ergonomic benefits.
Clinical documentation and EHR use have been significantly linked to clinician stress and burnout.
A 2009 study by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, a large U.S. healthcare IT industry trade group, observed that EHR adoption rates “have been slower than expected in the United States.
"Care360 helps physicians and their office staff excel in today's digital environment and we are confident that we will remain a leader among EHR providers."
EHR usability affects clinicians as well.
Maybe we can recover some savings by spending billions on a new DoD electronic health record (EHR) system.