usually people call the EPR an institution-based episodic record, and the EHR the virtual patient centred record. If openEHR is used inside a care institution _and_ at the next level up - then I guess the EPR and EHR distinction disappears somewhat, which is what I imagine Sam means.
- thomas 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 -- .............................................................. Deep Thought Informatics Pty Ltd mailto:thomasXXX at YYYdeepthoughtZZZ.WWWcom.AAAau (remove all caps) openEHR - http://www.openEHR.org Archetypes - http://www.deepthought.com.au/it/archetypes.html Community Informatics - http://www.deepthought.com.au/ci/rii/Output/mainTOC.html .............................................................. - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
