In every industry, there are always those who seek to position themselves as the keepers of the nomenclature. Everybody else wonders what all the fuss is about. Granted, what’s in a name?
The value of standardized terminology lies in making sure that we are all on the same page, so to speak, when we are discussing complex issues. EMRs (electronic medical records) are certainly high on the awareness level of most physicians today. But what about EHRs and ePHRs?
Software Advice has a nice summary of the the difference between these and other related terms. Increasingly there are workgroups that are attempting to standardize the phraseology in an area comprised of a multitude of disparate – but interrelated – industries, from medical practices to hospitals to software vendors to insurance companies.
Soon, we will all become facile at copying our Google ePHR file and giving it to our physician for her EMR, which is linked to the RHIO’s EHR….
