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An electronic health record (EHR), also known as an electronic medical record (EMR), is a patient’s medical chart accessed and modified in digital format. While an EMR is under the direct control of a hospital system or health care organization, a personal health record (PHR) is controlled by the patient. Increasingly more health care facilities and clinical practices are using EMRs. In the USA, EMR adoption has been accelerated by federal legislation that enforces clinicians to achieve “meaningful use” with certified EMRs. As a result, physicians are progressively placing more electronic orders for lab tests in the EMR. They also prefer to look up their patients’ results in the EMR. Since this paperless clinical practice is beginning to impact cytology, it is essential for cytopathology laboratories to be aware of this informatics trend.
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Park, S.L., Parwani, A.V., Pantanowitz, L. (2014). Electronic Medical Records. In: Pantanowitz, L., Parwani, A. (eds) Practical Informatics for Cytopathology. Essentials in Cytopathology, vol 14. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9581-9_13
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