Hi The English National Health Service makes an explicit distinction between the "cradle to grave" EHR and the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) which is used to record episodic or periodic healthcare. The EPR is a more generic term and is inclusive of other forms of periodic or episodic health care besides medical care. The proposed ISO definition of the EPR is the same as that of the English NHS except for the addition of the word "episodic". Regards
Liz Maher Australia Bill Walton wrote: > Hi Sam, > > > > BW: What's an EPR, what's in it, and what, if any, information > overlap does it have with an associated EHR? You introduce EPR in the > first example, but there's no definition provided and no reference to > an external source. > > > SH: Again, we have had a lot to say about this over the years. In > openEHR - it is the EHR - so the boundary is the model itself. There > is a real problem in the federated approach with addressing this - but > I think openEHR gives a clean approach. > I just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly. If I > understand your response above, you're saying that EPR and EHR are one > and the same. The reason I ask again is that the second example in > Appendix A of "Access to Electronic Health Records" seems to imply > that they are different in the following sense. It looks like the EPR > is a record of a specific transaction and that the EHR is a > compliation of EPR's over time. > > Thanks, > Bill - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
