Healthcare & Health Cloud
Electronic Health Record (EHR)
A digital version of a patient's medical history maintained by healthcare providers.
Complete Definition
An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is a comprehensive digital record of a patient's health information maintained by healthcare providers. EHRs contain clinical data including demographics, medical history, diagnoses, medications, lab results, radiology images, and care plans. Common EHR systems include Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and athenahealth. Health Cloud integrates with EHRs using FHIR and HL7 v2 standards to synchronize patient data.
Key Points
- 1Digital patient medical records
- 2Maintained by healthcare providers
- 3Common systems: Epic, Cerner, Allscripts
- 4Integrates with Health Cloud via FHIR/HL7
Related Terms
Salesforce Health Cloud
A healthcare-specific CRM platform built on Salesforce for patient engagement, care coordination, and population health management.
FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
A modern healthcare data exchange standard for interoperability between healthcare systems.
HL7 (Health Level Seven)
A set of international standards for healthcare data exchange between systems.
Patient 360 View
A unified, comprehensive view of a patient's health information aggregated from multiple sources.
HIE (Health Information Exchange)
A network that enables secure sharing of patient health information across organizations.
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