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− | Electronic Medical Records are also called Electronic Health Records, and accordingly often abbreviated with either [[EMR]] or [[EHR]].
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− | The Electronic Patient Record makes at least a claim to a wider scope, but in practice is likely to be equivalent.
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− | Generally Electronic Medical Records can mean almost anything that tracks health related data per patient. It is much more difficult to say what is a good electronic medical record. Almost any vendor will describe their medical record as innovative, or next-generation. It can be difficult to sort out how much of this is true because there is currently no good measuring stick for EMRs.
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− | (there's already a page trying to distinguish EMR from EHR - this page should be integrated into that one)
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