Electronic Medical Records Knowledge As the healthcare industry moves
toward electronic health records over the next five years and starts recruiting for HITECH, billing will need to keep up, so it's important to ask job candidates about their experience with electronic medical records (EMR) or electronic health records (EHR).
But basically what that means is he was hired to implement that part of the stimulus that was allocated
toward electronic health records or electronic medical records.
Not exact matches
And there's a move
toward calling them
electronic health records because it indicates more so that they're available throughout the
health care system and industry and that there're a piece of data that we can use in aggregate to start to look at trends across the population and trends in regions; when the flu comes in for instance or something like that, or adverse drug reactions can be tracked if we are all entering our data in
electronic health records.
As of January 1, 2017, credentialed medical assistants (in addition to licensed
health care professionals) are permitted to enter medication, laboratory, and diagnostic imaging orders into the
electronic health record (EHR) and have such entry count
toward meeting the meaningful use thresholds under only the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program.