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EHR

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EHR

(Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND corporation published a study in 2005. The research stated that America's healthcare industry is expected to save over $80 billion annually and improve the quality of care when EHR becomes reality.



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It was clear that with the federal government declaring an all-out push in the EHR direction and standards-setting bodies in full-swing, influential national IT organizations wanted to make sure that long-term care had a seat at the table.
At the behest of the Department of Health & Human Services, the Institute of Medicine developed a set of criteria for a true EHR in 2003.
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