electronic health record

noun

plural electronic health records

: a digital collection of a patient's medical information (such as medications, immunizations, lab results, or diagnoses) : EHR

Electronic health records have become essential tools in medicine, replacing the rooms full of paper documents that were hard to maintain and subject to fires and other losses.

—Karen Weintraub

For our staff and providers, having one electronic health record means one login and one point of access for all patient information. For patients, it means having one portal for all medical records …

—John Wilcox, quoted at Morris (Illinois) Daily Herald

Examples of electronic health record in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Health systems can take simple steps, like adding validated alcohol screening questions to their electronic health records or flagging high-risk patients, to identify more people in need of treatment. — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 14 July 2026

But integration does not necessarily mean having an API connection with electronic health records (EHRs). — Zaman Shah, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

In the new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers analyzed electronic health records from 2001 to 2023 for more than 700,000 pairs of mothers and children in Hong Kong. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026

Piedmont Ear, Nose & Throat Associates will transfer patient communication to the Epic electronic health records platform, used by its new parent company and regional health systems like Atrium Health and Novant Health. — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1993, in the meaning defined above

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