What is Electronic Health Record (EHR and also Electronic Health Registry)

See also electronic patient registry, medical electronic record. This is the creation of digital information, its storing, management, transmission, access, modification and use across a health care unit, several units or even a whole system of health care. In its basic generic form, the definition of EHR, according to the document ISO/TR 20514:2005 of the ISO – International Standards Organization, can be stated as followed: “repository of information regarding the health status of a subject of care, in computer processable form” ( ISO 2005 ).

Opportunities and Challenges for Electronic Health Record: Concepts, Costs, Benefits, and Regulation

Marc Jacquinet (Universidade Aberta, Portugal) and Henrique Curado (Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)